Testing and Development

ITR Pre-Production will be unavailable from 3pm until 7pm on Friday 25th May 2012.

The following resources are for ITOs, MACs and TMS vendors preparing for the ITR implementation.

Manuals and other papers

ITR Refinement Release Notes – Items for Release Two (14 May 2012)

The ITR Refinement Project Release Notes provide information on the nature, impact, and actions to be taken by ITOs from the planned changes that will be released into User Acceptance Testing on the 15 May and into production on 22 May 2012.

ITR Refinement Release Notes (PDF, 86 kb)

ITR XSDs (28 March 2011)

For developers in ITOs/MACs/vendors. Zip file containing the XML schema files. For use in UAT from 25 January 2011 and in production from 27 January 2011. The SchemaVersion string should be 3.0.Uat for UAT (case sensitive) or 3.0.0 for production.

ITR Production Candidate Release (Zip, 12 Kb)

ITR Schema definition (16 May 2012)

For TMS developers needing to prepare for implementation of the Industry Training Register computer system (ITR), and for ITO/MAC operational personnel needing to identify what data to collect and the business rules to apply to that data. Provides detailed schema definitions for ITR messaging.

ITR Schema definition (PDF, 1 Mb)

ITR Briefing to ITO senior managers (21 December 2010)

For ITO senior managers (but also of interest to MACs and TMS vendors). Describes ITR (at a high level), and business impacts arising from its implementation, and what the ITO needs to do in preparation.

ITR Briefing to ITO senior managers (PDF, 454 Kb)

ITR School provider codes (17 December 2010)

For developers in ITOs/MACs/vendors. Lists school provider codes that will be accepted by ITR.

ITR school provider codes (Excel, 76 Kb)

ITR guide to integration (20 June 2011)

For developers in ITOs/MACs/vendors. Describes ITR’s outer messaging layer (which is used to integrate with the Ministry of Education’s ESIS system).

ITR guide to integration (PDF, 480 Kb)

ITR and National Student Numbers (NSNs) (18 November 2010)

For developers in ITOs/MACs/vendors. Describes issues involving ITR’s use of NSNs.

ITR and National Student Numbers (NSNs) (PDF, 147 Kb)

ITR guide to integration process charts (18 October 2010)

For technical staff in ITOs/MACs/vendors. Provides A3-sized versions of two key charts from the “ITR guide to integration”.

ITR guide to integration process charts (PDF, 107 Kb) 

ITR presentation to the Industry Training Federation Conference 2010 (August 2010)

A presentation given to the Industry Training Federation Conference in August 2010.

ITR presentation to ITF (PPT, 1 MB)   

Other resources

Industry Training Act, 1992

NSI website 

Statistical standards

TEC rules and conditions 

TEC information feeds

Information is also available in Learners and organisations.

Contacts

Technical questions from TMS developers should go to the TEC IT Help Desk.

All other questions and comments from ITOs/MACs/vendors can be sent to the TEC Service Centre.