Security awareness training courses for UT Health San Antonio’s faculty and staff are now hosted through Skillport (aka “Skillsoft), an online tool through the University of Texas System. Skillport is a web-based Learning Management System (LMS) that provides access to a wide range of flexible learning opportunities for continually gaining new skills and knowledge. The Handbook of Operating Procedures requires periodic training on Information Security topics in compliance with various Federal and State regulations and UT system policies.

Access Security Awareness Courses

 

Sign in to Skillport

Step 1: Open a web browser and navigate to https://utsystem.skillport.com/

The training can be viewed on desktop computers, laptops, and tablets with browsers that include, but are not limited to, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari.

Note: If you are experiencing a long lag time for the training to load, please try a different browser.

 

Step 2: In the dropdown list, choose “The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio” as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

• Click Select and leave the default setting to “Remember for Session” as shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Step 3: Next, you will see the University’s single sign-on Shibboleth authentication page (Fig. 3). Enter your UT Health San Antonio credentials for “User name” and “Password” and click Log in.

Fig. 3

Step 4: Finally, you will see the page requesting your agreement for “Information to be Provided to Service” (Fig. 4). Click Accept.

Fig. 4

 

If you are experiencing issues with logging in, review more options in the section “Having Trouble Logging in?” by clicking here.

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Accessing Security Awareness Courses in Skillport

 

View and manage your assignments by clicking Learning Plan located in the top header of the page (Fig. 5).

Fig. 5

There may be two sections in your learning plan as shown in Fig. 6:

1. Assigned Learning contains content your manager or training administrator has assigned to you. Development Plans are also found there.
   Note: This section only displays if content is assigned.
2. Personal Learning contains content you have saved for completion, as well as any bookmarks in the Library you may have created.

 

Fig. 6

Note: If you cannot locate a training course in your Learning Plan, you can easily search for it in the Skillport library by following the steps in the section “How to find a training course in the Skillport Library” by clicking here.

 

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Printing the Certificate of Completion

You will have the option to print your certificate of completion by following these steps.

Step 1: Click on Learning Transcript under “Quick Links” on the left side of the Home Page; see Fig. 16.

Fig. 16

 

Step2: You will see a list of your courses inside “Learning Transcript”. Find the course you want to print a certificate for and click on Actions; see Fig. 17. Click on View Certificate in the dropdown menu (Fig. 18).

Fig. 17

 

Fig. 18

 

Step3: A new window will pop up showing your certificate of completion. Click the Print icon (Fig. 19) at the top right-hand corner and choose the appropriate printer settings to print your certificate.

Fig. 19

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Logging out and coming back to finish the training

If you do not have time to finish the training in one sitting, you can log out and log back in at a later time to continue. Simply close the course page (Fig. 20).

Fig. 20

Log out of the Learning Zone by clicking the user icon in the upper right-hand corner of the Learning Zone main page (Fig. 21) …

Fig. 21

 

… and clicking Log Out in the user information pull-down menu (Fig. 22).

Fig. 22

 

The next time you log in and return to the training module, click “last page visited” in the lower right-hand corner of the module main page (Fig 23) to return to where you left off.

Fig. 23

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How to find a training course in the Skillport Library

Locate a training course in the Skillport library by following these steps (Fig. 24):

1. Type the course name in the search box at the top right corner and press Enter
2. Click the Custom tab in the Search Results
3. Locate the training course and click Launch to start the training

Fig. 24

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Having Trouble Logging in?

Here are some additional options to log into the course if you’ve encountered these scenarios:

1. I clicked the wrong school.
   • If you accidentally chose another institution that was not “The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio” please follow the instructions to clear or refresh your cache or choose a new web browser that you haven’t used to log into the training. When you’ve completed this, please follow the instructions in Step 1.
2. I keep getting the wrong login page or receiving an “Error” message when the page loads.
   • If you are being redirected to the web page below (Fig. 25), please follow the instructions to clear or refresh your cache or choose a new web browser that you haven’t used to log into the training. When you’ve completed this, please follow the instructions in Step 1.Fig. 25
3. I don’t remember my password.
   • Resetting your password can be achieved in a few simple steps. To reset your password, please follow the password reset instructions.
4. I am an employee but I don’t have a UTHSCSA email address or username.
   • If you don’t have a UTHSCSA email address or username please contact Infosec’s Governance, Risk and Compliance team (GRC) at GRC@uthscsa.edu. They will contact you with more information about how to log in and access the training course on the Skillport system.

 

If you have questions or would like additional assistance with the online training, please contact the Service Desk at 210-567-7777.