South Africa: Soils, Substructure, and Superstructure Course
Welcome to InterNACHI's free, online South Africa: Soils, Substructure, and Superstructure Course." This course is provided by our accredited college at internachi.edu.
Goal:
This course's goal is to teach the student how to inspect the structural systems and components of a house in South Africa.
This course covers soil types, their performance characteristics, and their effect on substructures and superstructures. It also covers construction methods for substructures and superstructures to accommodate soil conditions and how they age and fail.
Objective:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to demonstrate an understanding of soil types, their performance characteristics and the defects they can cause in substructures and superstructures.
The student will also be able to demonstrate an understanding of common types of of substructures and superstructures, including identification of defects related to how they age and fail.
Course includes:
- 4 InterNACHI® CE credit hours;
- 16,477 words in the course;
- inspection and writing assignment;
- research and writing assignment;
- 94 quiz questions in 13 quizzes;
- 100-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
- instant grading; and
- a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion.
You will learn the following topics:
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| South Africa: Soils, Substructure, and Superstructure Course | ||
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| Course #4602, Student Catalog | ||
| www.nachi.org/south-africa-soils-substructure-superstructure-course | ||
| Student Work | Time Calculation | Estimated Clock Hour Time for the Average Student |
| Attendance for "Seat Time" 1 | # of minutes of student attendance / 50 | 11.4 |
| Participation in Learning Activities 2 | # of minutes of online student participation / 50 | 1.0 |
| Interactivity 3 | # of minutes of student interactivity / 50 | 0.5 |
| Reading the Course Text 4 | # of words in the course / 100 words per minute / 50 | 3.3 |
| Reading the Course Textbook 5 | # of words in the book / 100 words per minute / 50 | 1.6 |
| Academic Engagement 6 | # of words in the course / 100 / 50 | 1.0 |
| Direct Communication 7 | # of minutes of communication / 50 | 0.5 |
| Instructional Video Learning 8 | # of minutes of video / 50 | 0.0 |
| Reinforcement Q & A 9 | # of questions X 1.85 / 50 | 3.5 |
| Writing Assignment of the Inspection 10 | 4.0 hours per assignment | 2.0 |
| Writing Assignment of the Research 11 | 4.0 hours per assignment | 4.0 |
| Academic Activities for an Inspection 12 | 8.0 hours for each inspection assignment | 6.0 |
| Performing an Inspection 13 | 8.0 hours for each inspection | 8.0 |
| * nachi.org/catalog-credit-hour-calculation | 31.4 | |
| Total clock hours | 31.0 clock hours 31.0 InterNACHI CE Hours 3.1 CEU | |
In keeping with InterNACHI's commitment to Continuing Education, this course is open and free to all members and can be taken repeatedly without limit.
Reminder to members: InterNACHI's Code of Ethics 1.10 requires that you comply with all government rules and licensing requirements of the jurisdiction where you conduct business. InterNACHI's courses and Standards generally exceed the Standards of Practice that you are required to abide by locally.
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Some features which make InterNACHI's courses superior to existing continuing education options:
- The course is free for all InterNACHI members.
- The course is written in pure XHTML code for quick loading. The course loads fine on old computers and loads fast, even with dial-up.
- The course is designed using a hierarchal menu coupled with a sequential page navigation. This provides the student with the option to easily repeat areas of weakness.
- The course permits the student to start, stop and restart any part of the course as often as desired.
- There are a variety of images within the course, including diagrams, illustrations and pictures of actual roofs.
- The illustrations can be enlarged for clearer viewing by clicking on them.
- The text is integrated into InterNACHI's Inspector Glossary. Rolling over blue-colored terms provides their definition.
- The final exam uses multiple-choice questions that reference the images.
- The course's quizzes and final exam have numerous advantages over traditional exam systems:
- The course, quizzes and final exam incorporate built-in intelligence which identifies and strengthens each student's unique subject weaknesses.
- Not only is each question weighted with regard to score, but each answer is weighted, as well as the correctness of each answer being weighted.
- Answers to easy questions are weighted such that the student is penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly, but rewarded modestly for answering correctly.
- Answers to difficult questions are weighted such that the student is rewarded, in terms of score, for answering correctly, but not penalized for answering incorrectly.
- Answers to questions regarding basic safety, or questions every inspector should know the answer to, are weighted such that the student is severely penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly.
- Upon passing the final exam, the student can print out a Certificate of Completion which is auto- generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing Education log.
