1. US Lacrosse Officials’ Certification Administration Training View/Manage Training Activities-Women’s Game Last updated March 2013

2. Action Menu: View/Manage Training Activities Quick review: When you login to Certification Administration, you default to the Review Individual Activities Action/Screen. From the action menu, select action item you wish to access. http://usl.ebiz.uapps.net/personifyebusiness/CertificationAdministration/CertificationBoard.aspx For best results, please use Internet Explorer to access your portal. Other browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, are supported. This portal is NOT designed to work optimally with tablets or smartphones and we strongly discourage you from using such devices when working in this system.

3. Action Menu: View/Manage Training Activities Video demonstration of this menu item: https://uslacrosse.webex.com/uslacrosse/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=TC&rID= 17008017&act=pb&rKey=c34cf20460cbafcb Tools: Power Point Webex Demo Video Certification Overview sheet Certification Administration Portal Overview booklet

4. View/Manage Training Activities This Action allows you to view and manage your board members’ training activities, which are known as Transcripts

5. View/Manage Training Activities Some of these training activities you are responsible for recording your members’ completion of. Some of these activities are for you to simply view. Click on the down arrow in the Transcript Name box to select a training activity.

6. View/Manage Training Activities Some of the transcripts/training activities directly go toward completing the USL women’s officials certification requirements. Refer to your certification requirements handout or the end of this presentation to know which requirements are part of certification. Transcript (Training Activities) Explanation: CLASS—Women’s Officials Training Class: You are able award local classroom hour completion directly into the US Lacrosse system via this menu item. This is for initial classroom hours for new trainees and annual classroom hours for all officials that you require for your board. You will need to award classroom hour completion every year starting in January. RULE INTERP CLASS-Women’s Game Annual Rule Interpretation: You are able to award annual rule interpretation attendance for the officials on your board via this menu item. This is not required for initial certification but is annually required for re-certification.

7. View/Manage Training Activities Transcript (Training Activities) Explanations cont.: ONLINE COURSE-Women’s Officiating Rules and Penalties Online Course: This is required for initial certification, course completions by your members are view-only since this is reported online automatically to USL. TEST ANNUAL-Women’s Game Annual Rules Test: This is the full online test that is required for certification every year. Test completions by your members are view- only since this is reported online automatically to USL. TEST YTH-Women’s Game Youth Rules Test: This is the additional youth test which is required by some areas but is not required in order to be certified. Test completions by your members are view-only since this is reported online automatically to USL.

8. View/Manage Training Activities Transcript (Training Activities) Explanations cont.: USL CLINIC-Clinic participation in events such as LEAD, Developmental, District and National clinics are shown here and are view-only. USL TRN-US Lacrosse sponsored trainings to certify raters and trainers, and are view only. These training records are provided for you so that you may know the professional development activities of the officials’ on your board as captured by US Lacrosse.

9. View/Manage Training Activities Awarding Classroom and Rule Interpretation Hours Select the training activity you wish to enter completions for from the Transcript Name menu (CLASS or RULE INTERP CLASS) Click the Search button The list will show the names of all members of your board up to two years ago Sort by any column by clicking on the column heading Change the number of records showing by adjusting Page Size

10. View/Manage Training Activities Awarding Classroom and Rule Interpretation Hours Click the checkboxes next to the names of the individuals you want to award completion for this year. A checkmark will appear. You may click one or many boxes. Click the “Complete Training Requirement” button. NOTE: Only check boxes on the screen you are currently viewing. If you move to another screen it will only complete the training for the individuals on the screen you are currently viewing. (This has been submitted to the developers and we hope to make this a More streamlined process in version 2.0 in 2014)

11. View/Manage Training Activities Awarding Classroom and Rule Interpretation Hours Confirm these are the individuals to you want to award completion to. Click “Confirm” button If you spot an error, click cancel and select the correct individuals again.

12. View/Manage Training Activities Awarding Classroom and Rule Interpretation Hours The individuals awarded completion to will now be marked as “Completed” under Status Note: The Date Confirmed is not the date they completed the class, but the date you entered the data. Note: You may sort by status. The data will only sort the records displaying on the screen, not the full list. For a view of all members’ status for this training activity, click Export and sort using MS Excel

13. View/Manage Training Activities Viewing Other Training Activities (Transcripts) To view other transcripts/training activities, select the training from the Transcript Name Menu Click Search For “read only” transcripts there will be no checkboxes or a Complete Training Requirement button. You will notice that for annual requirements some people will have more than one record. The date confirmed will tell you what year the requirement was completed in. Export to sort all records by Date Confirmed to see or click Date Confirmed to sort the records on the screen by newest to oldest or oldest to newest.

14. View/Manage Training Activities Viewing an Individual’s Training Activities (Transcripts) On the Training Related Activities screen you can also click on the name of an individual and you will be taken to the member’s Individual Activity page. Here you can also see all of that member’s “transcripts” or training activity on record with USL.

15. View/Manage Training Activities Summary You can report annual classroom hour completion and annual rule interpretation completion in this portal You can view a variety of other training activities of your officials in this portal including online courses and annual online testing. Exporting from this portal will provide you with a list of the completion status of the selected transcript/training activity for all of the members of your board in the last two years. You may report annual classroom and rule interpretation completion for the season beginning in January of that year.

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17. US Lacrosse Women’s Game Officials Training and Certification Administration About Women’s Game Certification **This is an annual requirement. Officials who do not finish his/her certification in the year he/she completed this requirement will have to have it re-completed in the current year. Requirements for initial Women’s Game Officials Certification (all officials in 2013 ) REQUIREMENT HOW IT IS REPORTED Paid Local Board Dues** By you using your online Certification Administration tool-Board Membership Related Act. Passed required classroom hours By you using your online Certification Administration tool-Training Related Activities Current RATING (any level) By you using your online Certification Administration tool-On-Field Ratings Passed Annual Test** By USL when someone completes the test online-Training Related Activities Local Board Confirmed** By you using your online Certification Administration tool-Board Membership Related Act. USL Membership By USL when someone joins USL as an official-Review Individual Activities Online Course (new 2013)By USL when someone completes the course-Training Related Activities

18. REQUIREMENT HOW IT IS REPORTED Paid Local Board Dues** By you using your online Certification Administration tool-Board Membership Related Act. Passed required classroom hours By you using your online Certification Administration tool-Training Related Activities Current RATING By you using your online Certification Administration tool-On-Field Ratings Passed Annual Test** By USL when someone completes the test online-Training Related Activities Local Board Membership Confirmed** By you using your online Certification Administration tool-Board Membership Related Act. USL Membership By USL when someone joins USL as an official-Review Individual Activities US Lacrosse Women’s Game Officials Training and Certification Administration About Women’s Game Certification Re-Certification Once officials achieve certification, they need to maintain this certification annually. This is known as re-certification. Officials have from January 1 through April 30 to complete their annual recertification requirements. If recertification requirements are not completed by this date, their certification is officially expired. **These certification requirements cannot be entered until January 1 of each year.