The By Roster tab page of the Christian Learning dialog is used when you wish to add any of the following: teacher, date, and response to one or more names in a pre-defined group learning setting.

Use this page only for those situations where you have already assigned a set of topics for a specific learning experience for a group of names. If you are adding topics as you go along, use the By Experience tab page facilities instead.

Steps for Using This Page

First you need to pull the roster of names with which you wish to work from the full list of names in your CMD data file. To do this, enter as many fields as possible to narrow the criteria for the search. We suggest that you follow steps in this order:

•Select an Experience and a Topic from the respective drop-down lists. These two are the minimum fields you should select..

•If you wish to include the Teacher field as a part of the selection to build the roster, click the Select Teacher button, and then enter the name of the teacher. If you defined a teacher for this topic when the learning experience was first created, it will be entered here automatically.

•If you wish to include the Date field as a part of the selection to build the roster, click the Select Date button, and then enter the date. If you defined a date for this topic when the learning experience was first created, it will be entered here automatically.

•Click the Get Roster button to have CL find all the names in your file that match the fields you selected. This will create the list of names from which to work.

•If you worked on this list in a prior session, you’ll need to select the item in the Response field that you were working with before, and then click the Find Names Already Entered button to see who you’ve processed so far.

•Now you are ready to actually mark new names (or additional names if you were working with this list before) for each of the items selected in the list of fields in the left hand column. Use the Name Search tools in the center to find the name you wish to mark. Either double-click the name in the grid, press Enter when it’s highlighted, or click the Mark Selected Name for Experience button. The name’s leaning file will be updated with the information in the left column, and his/her name added to the list in the right-hand column so you’ll know who you’ve marked already.

If you need to add a name to the roster who’s not there, click the Add New Name to Roster button. Be sure you want to add a name before you click this button! When you click it, a separate Name Search dialog will appear. Find the name you want to add. When you click the Call Name button, each topic for the experience you’ve selected will be added to the name’s learning record that you picked on the Name Search dialog, and the name will be added to the Name Search list on the By Roster page so that you can now mark the name.

If you wish to add the name without adding all the topics from a learning experience to the learning file of the selected name, you should go to the By Name tab page and enter the single topic there and then return to By Roster and click the Get Roster button again to add the name to the roster list.