The By Experience tab page of the Christian Learning dialog is used when you wish to add a particular experience and topic, and optionally, a teacher, date, or response to a list of individuals in your data file.

This page is most useful in those settings where you did not associate the complete list of topics for a learning experience for all names in the class up front using the Create Entry for Each Topic button on the By Name tab page.

Some settings, such as open-enrollment classes where attendees may come to only a few sessions or where you don’t know the topic, teacher, or dates in advance, lend itself more to this tab page’s facilities.

You must select both an Experience and a Topic. From there, you may optionally include any of the remaining items.

Generally, however, you will also specify a teacher, a date (of completion or date when the class or learning experience took place), and a response.

This allows you to quickly add a response to a group of names at the same time you are adding these items to their personal learning experiences data file.If the session in which you are adding learning experiences to selected names is interrupted, when you return, set up the items in the left-hand column just as you did before (each item must be included), and then click the Find Names Already Entered button and CL will find the list of names you’ve already processed so that you don’t miss or duplicate any names.

Important Note

This facility should be used only when you are adding a particular learning experience and topic (and its other associated information) to one or more names. If the experience and topic has already been added to a name’s list of learning experiences, including their name in the list of names processed here will produce duplicate items in that name’s list of learning experiences.If you wish to update or modify an item already in your name’s learning list, either do it on the By Name page, or on the By Roster page.