Adding External Training into PDS Transcript – Staff and Managers of Staff May Use This Form An external training is any training that you completed for credit towards your certification or licensing that is not already in PDS Online.

The listed manager in their PDS Online user profile must mark the external training complete.

  1. Access your staff/caregiver’s transcript. See other Tutorial on our site, “PB Manager – View Transcripts for your Staff in PDS”.
  2. From your staff/caregiver’s transcript, adding an external training using the same process you would to add an external training to your own transcript.
  3. Approve the external training by marking it complete. (see below)

Approving External Trainings

1. If your staff has entered their own external training on their PDS transcript, click “View Training Details” next to the appropriate external training. This would be the same if the manager added the training on behalf of the staff.

Screenshot of where to view external training details for users in the PDS Online System

2. Click “Mark Complete”

Screenshot showing where to mark the external training complete in the PDS Online system.

3. You can verify that the training is now marked complete by finding it on the staff/caregiver’s completed transcript tab