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1 Distance Learning Course Catalog Pearson Distance Learning provides effective just-in-time instruction at an affordable price. Pearson Distance Learning courses are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through self-paced asynchronous instruction. Courses have been designed for the adult learner to include simulation and authentic assessment. Unlike traditional courses, Distance Learning instruction can be conveniently scheduled and adjusted throughout the year. Busy K 12 professionals can start and stop units as time permits. Pearson Distance Learning courses feature audio, graphics, text, and search capabilities to maximize the retention for each learner. All district staff can participate in an unlimited number of Distance Learning courses and repeat courses as needed. To help meet a district s training needs, Pearson offers Mastery in Minutes and Distance Learning options available through PowerSource. Course Descriptions The purpose of our Distance Learning courses is to deliver targeted instruction, guided practice, and authentic assessment directly to each district stakeholder. This training empowers them to apply what they have learned to the degree that they are instantly productive in incorporating and into their daily job routines. Course Title Course Description Product Attendance Reports This course is intended for attendance clerks, secretaries, and school administrators who are responsible for verifying the accuracy of attendance records, running attendance audits, and reporting attendance to the district, province, and/or state. Learn how to set up, use, and analyze the reports you'll use most often on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Automated Walk- In Scheduler Part One Automated Walk-In Scheduler is a two-part course. In Part One, you will learn how to complete the scheduling setup for the Automated Walk-In Scheduler by setting your school's scheduling preferences, modifying student information, defining course and section preferences, and formatting schedule constraints.

2 Automated Walk- In Scheduler Part Two Basics for Administrators Part One Automated Walk-In Scheduler is a two-part course. In Part Two, you will learn how to manually enter a student's course requests, how to run the Automated Walk-In Scheduler, how to modify an existing schedule, and how to manually modify a student's schedule. This course is intended for everyone new to or for those who would like to brush up on the basics. In Part One of this three-part course, you will learn about the different groups who use, how someone from each of the user groups signs in to, and how to navigate the Start Page. You will also explore common tasks, run basic reports, and use special functions. Basics for Administrators Part Two Basics for Administrators Part Three This course is intended for anyone new to or who would like to brush up on the basics. In Part Two of this three-part course, you will learn how to search for students and how to use student pages. You will explore individual student information such as alerts and demographics, as well as look at student reports that you can print. This course is intended for everyone new to or for those who would like to brush up on the basics. In Part Three of this three-part course, you will learn how to perform basic field-level searches in, print reports and mailing labels, work with group functions, perform compound searches and use a variety of search methods to select students. Counselor and Administrative Skills Part One Part One of this course is intended for counselors and administrative users at districts and individual schools and is the first part of a two-part series. Participants will learn how to conduct and save student searches, use the counselor's screen, set up and work with cumulative information, and track graduation progress. Counselor and Administrative Skills Part Two This course is intended for counselors and administrators at the school and district level. This is part two of a two-part series. Learn where to record student information, how to create form letters, and how to modify custom reports.

3 During the School Year Scheduling - Elementary School administrative staff responsible for managing elementary schedules during the school year will learn how to perform several scheduling-related tasks, including how to view and modify the master schedule, add courses, create dependent sections, manually schedule students, mass enroll students in a class, and enroll students in special programs. During the School Year Scheduling - Secondary School administrative staff responsible for managing secondary schedules during the school year will learn how to perform several scheduling-related tasks, including how to view and modify the Master Schedule, add courses, manually schedule students, mass enroll students in a class, and enroll students in classes at other schools. End of Term Part One: Verifying Grades School administrative staff responsible for the End of Term process will learn what elements to include in their End of Term process plan and how to verify teacher grades. This is a three-part series. End of Term Part Three: Reporting Grades School administrative staff responsible for the End of Term process will learn how to calculate honor roll, run the honor roll report, and print report cards. End of Term Part Two: Storing Grades Enrolling and Transferring Students School administrative staff responsible for the End of Term process will learn how to use the Permanently Store Grades page to store grades in. This course covers the management of student enrollment, whether into your school, out of a school, or transferring between schools. You'll also learn how to use to activate a student's inactive status, link to family demographic information, and avoid duplicating student data. Finally, you'll learn how to pre-enroll students before they attend kindergarten.

4 Introducing Parents to 's Parent Portal This course is for school and system administrators responsible for teaching parents and guardians how to use the Parent Portal. Administrators will learn how parents and guardians sign in, add students to parent/guardian single sign-on accounts, receive reports, access grades, view attendance, and use other parent tools. Introductory Custom Fields and Screens Managing Daily Attendance Managing Grades and Academic Data: Part One Managing Grades and Academic Data: Part Two Managing Meeting Attendance In this course, school administrative staff will learn how to create custom fields and screens to meet specific needs at their school. Intended for those who work in daily attendance schools (schools where teachers record attendance only once per day) this course covers how to find which teachers have not taken attendance, how to use the absentee report to follow up with students who were marked absent, and how to search for students who exhibit chronic attendance issues. Additional topics include how to update student attendance for individual students and for groups of students. This course is intended for administrative and office staff in your district who are responsible for entering and editing student academic data. You will learn how to create tests and their score categories in, as well as how to enter single scores and import groups of scores. You'll also learn how to manually add information to transcripts for students transferring into your school, how to add historical information for a single course, and how to edit historical grades. This course is intended for administrative and office staff who are responsible for retrieving student academic data. You will learn how to view a student's overall academic status and progress towards graduation, how to search for students based on their grades or GPA, and how to run an At Risk report to discover those students in danger of not graduating. Intended for those who work in meeting attendance or period attendance schools (schools where teachers record attendance more than once per day) this course covers how to find which teachers have not taken attendance, how to use the absentee report to follow up with students who were marked absent, and how to search for students who exhibit chronic attendance issues. Additional topics include how to update student attendance for individual students and for groups of students.

5 Managing Staff in Managing Student Behavior and Discipline in Explore how to add, edit, and inactivate staff from your current records. Then, learn how to gather addresses quickly and view teacher schedules and gradebooks. Learn how to document student behavior-based events in two ways. First, see how to use incident management to record information about an event that involves multiple people, such as reporters, witnesses, offenders, and victims. Then learn how to submit log entries about an individual student. Finally, investigate ways to print out records created through both methods. Managing Students in Parent Access Setup PowerScheduler Part 1: Prepare to Build and Load a Master Schedule PowerScheduler Part 1: Prepare to Load a Master Schedule Explore how to view student academic records and teacher gradebooks. Then, learn how to use the At Risk, Parent Access Statistics, and Grades Distribution reports. This course is for school system administrators responsible for setting up the Parent Portal, setting up parent/guardian and student accounts, and enabling Parent Single Sign-on. System administrators will learn how to set up security settings to modify pages and permissions, set up parent and student accounts, add students to parent accounts, enable parent single sign-on, set up parental , and set up the Parent Portal display. In PowerScheduler Part 1: Prepare to Build and Load a Master Schedule, you will learn how to set up the infrastructure for next year's schedule. The course covers how to create the periods, day cycles, and years and terms; how to create a build scenario; and how to define Scheduling Parameters and Resources. This course is for customers who are building a Master Schedule using PowerScheduler. In PowerScheduler Part 1: Prepare to Load a Master Schedule, you will learn how to set up the infrastructure for next year's schedule. The course covers how to create the periods, day cycles, and years and terms; how to copy a master schedule; and how to define Scheduling Parameters and Resources. This course is for customers using an existing Master Schedule and loading students for the upcoming year.

6 PowerScheduler Part 2: Course Prerequisites, Recommendations and Requests In PowerScheduler Part 2: Course Prerequisites, Recommendations, and Requests, you will learn how to work with courses and student course requests for next year's schedule. The course covers how to add new courses to your course catalog, how to add course prerequisites and rules, how to add teacher recommendations, how to design course request screens, how to enter student course requests, and how to manage recommendations and requests. This class is for all PowerScheduler users. PowerScheduler Part 3: Prepare to Build and Load a Master Schedule PowerScheduler Part 3: Prepare to Load a Master Schedule In PowerScheduler Part 3: Prepare to Build and Load a Master Schedule, you will learn how to complete the set up of the infrastructure for next year's schedule. This course covers five topics: course information, build and load constraints, PowerScheduler tools, course rank, and validation. This course is for customers who are building a Master Schedule using PowerScheduler. In PowerScheduler Part 3: Prepare to Load a Master Schedule, you will learn how to complete the set up of the infrastructure for next year's schedule. You will learn to manually adjust your master schedule, define course relationships and constraints, and use the tools provided in PowerScheduler to evaluate your work. You will also learn how to load students into the master schedule, how to evaluate the Load, and how to import the final version of student schedules into. This course is for customers using an existing Master Schedule and loading students for the upcoming year. Administration and Management Communication Tools Part One This course addresses important items that administrators need to know. You will learn how to work directly in data, and manage staff member information, the report queue, and the parent and student portals. When it comes to communication, offers a variety of tools that school administrative staff can use to share information effectively with students, parents, and staff members. Part One of this course introduces you to these tools and shows you how to create your own form letters, customize mailing labels, and print reports for students.

7 Communication Tools Part Two provides a variety of communication tools that school administrative staff can use to share information effectively with students, parents, and staff members. This final part of the course shows you how to create your own report cards and progress reports, enter and edit items in the daily bulletin, and how to import and export report templates. Database Management System administrators and technical support staff will learn how to use Administrator to manage the database, and how to perform system back ups, database restorations, and updates. End of Term Part One: Verifying Grades School administrative staff responsible for the End of Term process will learn what elements to include in their End of Term process plan and how to verify teacher grades. This is a three-part series. End of Term Part Two: Storing Grades School administrative staff responsible for the End of Term process will learn how to use the Permanently Store Grades page to store grades in. End of Term Part Three: Reporting Grades School administrative staff responsible for the End of Term process will learn how to calculate honor roll, run the honor roll report, and print report cards. Health Record Management: Part One In this course, administrators will learn how follow district and state reporting guidelines to set up the Health components at the district level, including Immunizations, Screenings, Office Visits, and Grade Level Entry Certifications.

8 Health Record Management: Part Two Security In this course, medical support staff and other health administrators will learn how to record and manage student health information at the school level, including Immunizations, Screenings, Office Visits, and Grade Level Entry Certifications. School administrators will also learn how to run Health reports and how to control access to the student Health pages through user group security permissions. This course is intended for both technical and instructional administrators. Learn how to use security groups, user access roles, and page permissions to determine what users can access. Then, learn how to manage security settings for your staff. Finally, learn how to use IP restrictions and system passwords to control how users access. PowerTeacher PowerTeacher Administrator In this interactive course, teachers can learn how to navigate PowerTeacher, take attendance, submit lunch counts, view student information, view the daily bulletin, and launch PowerTeacher gradebook. This course is intended for both technical and instructional administrators in your district and individual schools. Technical administrators will learn how to establish and maintain accounts for groups of district and school leaders. Instructional leaders will learn how to maintain consistency in the setup of the gradebook, how to push content links to specific groups of teachers, and how to run administrative reports on gradebook activity. PowerTeacher Gradebook Standards This course introduces teachers to the most common operations used when working with standards in PowerTeacher gradebook. Subjects covered include attaching standards to an assignment, using the standards drawer, using the Student View mode, working with final grades, filtering, and standards reports. PowerTeacher Gradebook Standards Setup This course covers how to set up standards for use with PowerTeacher Gradebook. Subjects covered include creating a conversion scale, setting up standards score values, manually entering standards, and using Quick Import to transfer standards into.

9 PowerTeacher Gradebook: Analysis and Reporting PowerTeacher Gradebook: Getting Started PowerTeacher Gradebook: Working with Grades In part three of a three-part series, teachers will learn how to use PowerTeacher Gradebook to analyze grades and report on students? progress and performance. Teachers will learn how to work with student groups; work with the Scoresheet in three modes: Assignments, Final Grades, and Student View; and run some of the reports available in the gradebook. In part one of a three-part series on PowerTeacher Gradebook, teachers will learn how to launch PowerTeacher Gradebook and gain an overall understanding of its functions. They will start using the gradebook as is, "right out of the box," then learn how to create assignments, organize assignment categories, enter scores, and manage their student and course information. In part two of a three-part series on PowerTeacher Gradebook, teachers will learn how to work with grades in PowerTeacher Gradebook. Teachers will walk through gradebook processes, including how to set up the calculation for final grades and how to modify grade scales. The course also covers new ways for entering assignment scores and how to complete final grades at the end of the term. PowerTeacher: Seating Charts This course is intended for teachers who want to learn how to design and modify classroom seating charts in PowerTeacher. Teachers will also learn how use seating charts to take attendance and how to use them to pick students at random for activities like class discussions. ReportWorks Part One Learn how to launch ReportWorks, create mailing labels, student lists, and form letters. Learn how to publish your reports and run them from. ReportWorks Part Two In this second ReportWorks course, learn how to use ReportWorks templates to prepare student schedules and grade reports quickly. Learn how to create a crosstab table for your project, design a graph, how to share projects, and how to print your project from.

10 Setting Up Attendance Tracking and Notification This is tutorial 1 of 7. This course is intended for system administrators and attendance personnel. Learn how to complete district and school setup of the Attendance Tracking and Notification (or ATN) system by reviewing attendance categories and codes, identifying the ATN attendance mode, creating unexcused tracking categories, and setting up the percent tracking method. SIS Management Cycle Prepare for the eight important processes you need to complete each year to ensure that your server is set up correctly. Use this tutorial as a checklist, and refer to it as you develop your district's SIS management plan. Start of Year Part Four: Student Information and Parent Access Get a head start on your start of year setup. This course is part four of a four-part series. It covers the settings that affect student information, how to assign access IDs and passwords for students and parents, and how to enable access to the Student and Parent Portals before the new school year begins. Start of Year Part One: District and School Administration Get a head start on your start of year setup. This course is part one of a four-part series and covers the district and school administrative settings that you need to review and update in before the upcoming school year begins. Start of Year Part Two: Scheduling and Attendance Get a head start on your start of year setup. This course is part two of a four-part series and covers the settings that affect scheduling and attendance you need to review and update during the Start of Year process. Start of Year Part Three: Grading, Assessment, and Reports Get a head start on your start of year setup. This course is part three of a four-part series. It covers the settings that affect grading, assessment, and reports you need to review and update in before the new school year begins.

11 Overview Learn about for ; what it is, how to access it, and how to navigate through it. You will learn how to find student data so you know how your students are doing, then how to use the classroom and assessment management tools to target instruction. Finally, you will see how to find and analyze assessment data to further focus instruction. Because all materials and assessments are tied to standards, you will use the standards mastery report to see how students are coming along on standards. : Administering and Scoring Online Assessments This course is intended for teachers who wish to learn how to administer and score online assessments. Teachers will learn the steps involved in preparing computers for an upcoming assessment, the steps that students will go through to complete an assessment, how to use the Proctor Dashboard, how to score open response questions, and how to view a class' overall assessment statistics. : Analyzing Student Performance This course shows teachers how to use student performance analysis reporting in. They will learn about student analysis reports, benchmark and classroom test results, item and skill analysis reports, and standards mastery trends reports. : Creating Assessments : Creating Benchmark Items and Tests This course, intended for teachers, covers how to create and schedule classroom tests using. Participants will use the Assessment Admin tool to create an express test, to create a test manually, and to write test questions that are tied to standards. They will also learn about the test stages from Private Draft to Scheduled. This course is intended for assessment administrators at the district level. Assessment administrators will learn how to put together a benchmark assessment by copying and pasting items from another source or document, writing a new question, and searching for and selecting an item from the item bank. They will also learn how to schedule the assessment.

12 : Getting Started in School & District Data An overview for principals and school administrators, Getting Started in School & District Data provides instructions in how to access student performance data in the School & District Data component of. Learn how to work with the home page, with key performance indicators, and with the benchmark tests dashboard. : Introduction to Classroom Reporting This course is intended as an introduction to 's classroom reporting features. Teachers learn how to view standardized test results for current year students, view results by score group, create a student group, and view student profiles. : Learning More in School & District Data This course for district- and school-level instructional administrators covers how to run, create, and save reports. : Lesson Planning Learn how to use the lesson planner to view your class calendars, find and schedule instructional materials, and create a new lesson plan to share with other teachers at your school or district. : Locating Instructional Materials : Publishing Reports Teachers learn how to use basic search methods and student performance data to locate instructional materials, search for materials by standard, locate instructional support resources, and navigate to the My Materials bank in. This course is intended for report managers. Prerequisites for this course are Getting Started in School & District Data and Learning More in School & District Data. Report managers will prepare to publish a report, work with student sets and column sets, publish a custom report and a pre-formatted report, modify report names and categories, and retract and delete a report.

13 PowerTeacher Gradebook for SMS: Getting Started In this course, teachers will learn how to launch PowerTeacher Gradebook from Chancery SMS and will be introduced to the purposes of each main section. Then they will start using the gradebook as is, "right out of the box." Through a highly-interactive instructional model, teachers will learn how to create assignments, enter scores, and add information to their class descriptions. The course uses dynamic demonstrations to guide teachers through gradebook processes and provide opportunities for hands-on practice. SMS Course Title Course Description Product Analytics for Teachers - Part One In this course, teachers will learn how to navigate the Analytics system, including how to use the Context Navigator and the Assessment Dashboard. Teachers will then learn how to identify groups of students who are performing above, at, or below standard on assessments, how to "drill down" into report data, how to add students to target groups for enrichment or remediation, and how to assign intervention strategies. Pearson Inform Analytics For Teachers - Part Two In this course, teachers will learn how to search for an individual student's records in Analytics, use the Student Dashboard to analyze student performance data, and add students to Academic Improvement Plans (AIPs). Teachers will also learn how to use the Analytics AIP to monitor student progress and update intervention program information. Pearson Inform Analytics: The Primary Dashboard In this course, teachers and administrators will learn how to use the Primary Dashboard to view and modify Analytics reports, create custom dashboards, and organize the Report Library. Pearson Inform

14 Mastery in Minutes Pearson Mastery in Minutes modules provide effective just-in-time instruction at an affordable price. Pearson Mastery in Minutes modules are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through self-paced asynchronous instruction. Modules have been designed for the adult learner to include simulation and authentic assessment. Unlike traditional training, Mastery in Minutes instruction can be conveniently scheduled and adjusted throughout the year. Busy K 12 professionals can quickly learn a new skill in just a few minutes. Pearson Mastery in Minute modules feature short videos, typically three to five minutes in length. All district staff can participate in an unlimited number of Mastery in Minutes trainings and repeat modules as needed. Series Adding a Class Section Adding a Day to the School Year Schedule Adding a Period to the School Year Schedule Adding a Staff Member Adding an Item to the Daily Bulletin Adding Course Prerequisite Rules Address Management: Individual Student Attendance Codes Attendance Conversions Attendance Data Access Tags Automated Walk-In Scheduling: Entering Requests Automated Walk-In Scheduling: Installing the Scheduling Engine on a Mac Automated Walk-In Scheduling: Installing the Scheduling Engine on a PC Automated Walk-In Scheduling: Using the Scheduler Batch Address and Boundary Validation Changing a Grade After the Grades Are Stored Changing Access for Parents and Students Changing Access for Parents and Students Changing Attendance for Multiple Days

15 Changing Daily Attendance for One Student Changing Meeting Attendance for One Student Changing the Current Grade Display Changing the Default Term Level Class Ranking Report Closing a Section to Further Enrollment Custom Web Page Management Custom Web Page Management Customizing a PowerTeacher Gradebook Report Data Access Tags: Standards Information and Scores Deleting a Duplicate Student DISABLED Running a Report on a Student Group Drop a Student from a Class Editing a Data Validation Rule Enabling Mobile Web Pages and Apps in Enrolling a New Student Enrolling a Student in a Class Enrolling a Student in a Class at Another School Enrollment Summary Entering a Single Historical Grade Entering a Single Historical Grade Entering Historical Grades from a Transcript Entering New Students in Activities Entering New Students in Activities Entering Student Alerts Entering Student Test Scores Export Templates Exporting Data to a Spreadsheet Exporting Reports Extracting Test Scores Using Data Access Tags Full-Time Equivalencies (FTEs) Getting Started with Distance Learning GPA Calculation Methods How Grade Scales Affect GPAs How Historical Grades Affect GPAs Importing Test Results Managing Student Numbers Mass Enrolling Students in a Class

16 Mass Modifying Student Fields Mass Print Student Screens - PC Only Master Schedule Report Modifying an Incorrect Grade Level Modifying Bell Schedules Modifying the School Calendar Net Access Reports for Your School Oracle Backups Using System Management Personal Preferences Setup PowerScheduler Constraints: Section Links PowerScheduler Constraints: Student and Teacher Avoids PowerScheduler Constraints: Teacher Free and Teacher Part-Time Searches Using AND Searches Using Contains Searches Using IN Searches Using OR Term IDs PowerSource Account Management PowerSource: Getting Started PowerSource: Knowledgebase Articles PowerSource: Training Resources PowerTeacher Gradebook Launch Checklist PowerTeacher Gradebook: Citizenship PowerTeacher Gradebook: Copying Assignments PowerTeacher Gradebook: Copying Final Grade Setup PowerTeacher Gradebook: Exporting and Importing Scores PowerTeacher Gradebook: Extra and Maximum Points PowerTeacher Gradebook: Locking the Gradebook PowerTeacher Gradebook: Report on All Sections PowerTeacher Gradebook: Running a Report on All of Your Students PowerTeacher Gradebook: Running an Individual Student Report PowerTeacher Gradebook: Standards Final Grade Entry PowerTeacher Gradebook: Standards Final Grades for SMS PowerTeacher Gradebook: Using Extra Class Columns PowerTeacher Gradebook: Using Quick Entry Keys PowerTeacher Gradebook: Working with the Gradebook Window PowerTeacher: Course Recommendations PowerTeacher: ing a Group

17 PowerTeacher: Printing a Report for a Student PowerTeacher: Setting Personal Preferences PowerTeacher: Submitting a Log Entry PowerTeacher: Submitting Lunch Counts PowerTeacher: Using the Staff Directory Pre-Registering a Student Printing Class Rank with Data Access Tags Printing Class Rosters Printing Schedules for an Individual Student Printing the Student Schedule Matrix Report Re-enrolling a Student in the Same School Reactivating a Dropped Section Enrollment Recording Health Screenings Recording Immunizations Recording Log Entries in Relating One Student to Another Report on All Sections ReportWorks Template: Incident Management CrossTab by School and Type ReportWorks Template: Incident Management District Summary ReportWorks Template: Incident Management Participant Report ReportWorks: Adding a Text Watermark ReportWorks: Check Validation ReportWorks: Preparing a Standards Report Card Template ReportWorks: Preparing a Transcript Template ReportWorks: Preparing the Aggregate Immunization Summary Template ReportWorks: Preparing the Health Office Visits by Student Template ReportWorks: Preparing the Health Screenings Template ReportWorks: Printing a Double-sided Multi-page Report Retaining a Student Schedule a Student Manually Searching for Birthdays Searching in Selecting Student Options Setting Up a New Activity Setting Up a Dashboard Setting Up Boundary Validation Setting Up Special Programs Setting Up Substitute Sign In Settings

18 Setting Up Tests and Scores Signing in to SIS Management Cycle Staff Security Teachers in Multiple Buildings Tracking Methods for Attendance Tracking and Notification Transferring a No-Show Student Out of School Transferring From One School to Another Truancy and Attendance - Levels Reached for Attendance Tracking and Notification Truancy and Attendance Letters (Extract) for Attendance Tracking and Notification Truancy and Attendance Letters (View Only) for Attendance Tracking and Notification Unexcused Tracking Levels for Attendance Tracking and Notification Updating Attendance Data for Attendance Tracking and Notification Uploading a Photo for a Student Using Match Selection Using Search By Grades/Attendance Using Stored Searches Using the Counselor's Screen Using the Data Dictionary Using the Family Rep Field Using the List Students Function Using the Report Queue Using the Teacher Attendance Submission Status Page Viewing Student Schedules What's New: Additional Improvements What's New: Co-Teaching What's New: Course Management What's New: Custom Comment Length What's New: Data Import/Export Manager Enhancements What's New: Data Validation What's New: Mass Drop & Enroll What's New: Integrations What's New: Seating Chart What's New: Session Management What's New: Unified Teacher Record What's New: Visual Scheduler Wildcard Searches Years and Terms

19 Series : Adding a Resource to an Instructional Unit : Approving Instructional Materials : Creating a Lesson Plan : Creating a Student Group : Creating an Assessment Question : Creating an Express Test : Creating Hotspot Items : Finding a Passage : Finding an Assessment Item : Finding and Scheduling an Existing Lesson Plan : Finding and Scheduling an Existing Lesson Plan : Reusing a Saved Test : Running and Editing a Report for a Student Group : Viewing Past Year Sections