{"id":5205,"date":"2025-08-17T23:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/training\/family-resource-center-professional-development-system\/pb-manager-view-and-print-transcripts-for-your-staff-in-pds-pdf\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:34:47","slug":"approve-external-trainings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/registration\/approve-external-trainings\/","title":{"rendered":"Approving External Trainings Into PDS for Your Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Adding External Training into PDS Transcript &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The listed manager in their PDS Online user profile must mark the external training complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Access your staff\/caregiver\u2019s transcript. See other Tutorial on our site, &#8220;PB Manager &#8211; View Transcripts for your Staff in PDS&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From your staff\/caregiver\u2019s transcript, adding an external training using the same process you would to add an external training to your own transcript.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Approve the external training by marking it complete. (see below)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-approving-external-trainings\">Approving External Trainings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-p-lg\">1. If your staff has entered their own external training on their PDS transcript, click \u201cView Training Details\u201d next to the appropriate external training. This would be the same if the manager added the training on behalf of the staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"826\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/2025\/08\/view-training-document-button-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of where to view external training details for users in the PDS Online System\" class=\"wp-image-5213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/2025\/08\/view-training-document-button-screenshot.jpg 826w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/2025\/08\/view-training-document-button-screenshot-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/2025\/08\/view-training-document-button-screenshot-768x235.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-p-lg\">2. Click \u201cMark Complete\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"865\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/2025\/08\/mark-external-training-complete.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot showing where to mark the external training complete in the PDS Online system.\" class=\"wp-image-5214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/2025\/08\/mark-external-training-complete.jpg 865w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/2025\/08\/mark-external-training-complete-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/2025\/08\/mark-external-training-complete-768x469.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-p-lg\">3. You can verify that the training is now marked complete by finding it on the staff\/caregiver\u2019s completed transcript tab<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\"><div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-4391\"><nav aria-label=\"Sidebar\" class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list uwm-p-navigation-list--gold-border \"><div class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/registration\/\">Registration<\/a><\/div><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/registration\/set-up-account\/\">Set Up Account<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/registration\/view-print-transcripts-for-staff\/\">View and Print Your Transcript Report from PDS &#8211; Staff<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/registration\/view-print-transcripts-for-managers\/\">View and Print Transcripts for your Staff in PDS &#8211; Manager<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/registration\/add-external-trainings\/\">Add External Trainings to PDS &#8211; Manager or Staff<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/registration\/approve-external-trainings\/\"><span aria-current=\"page\">Approving External Trainings Into PDS for Your Staff<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/registration\/new-trainings-available\/\">How to Get Notified When New Trainings Are Available in PDS<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1629,"featured_media":0,"parent":4192,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/centered.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-5205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6613,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5205\/revisions\/6613"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/professional-development-network-family-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}