After Registration

Your job is not complete with simply registering for a course. After registration, you continue to use your “My CDE” and other pages to perform the following tasks:

• Tracking your registration / attendance status
• Changing your attendance status
• Confirming your attendance intentions

• Downloading course materials
• Printing certificates of completion
• Printing transcripts

Tracking Registration / Attendance Status

The My CDE page lists all courses that you've selected and registered for in an easy to follow format. The status associated with each course indicates whether you are registered for the course, as well as other statuses that may occur in the nomination / approval / registration / tracking process.

The statuses you may see include:

• Selected – when you place a course in your Selected Courses list
• Pending – when you request approval for a course
• Approved – when your supervisor approves a course
• Denied – when your supervisor denies a course
• Registered – when you are registered for a course
• Waitlisted – when you are on the waiting list for a course
• Attending – when you have confirmed you will attend
• Not Attending – when you have indicated you cannot attend
• Completed – when you have completed all of the course's requirements

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Changing Your Attendance Status

It is possible to change your attendance status from the My CDE page. To change your attendance status, follow these steps:

1. Click the status of the course you want to change

2. Select a new status from the list provided and enter a comment explaining the change
3. Click the “Submit” button to update the change

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Confirming Attendance Intentions

When you are registered for a course, the status of that course will read “Registered” on the My CDE page. If you have not confirmed attendance, the message “Please Confirm Your Attendance” will appear in red under the Course Title on the My CDE page twelve weeks before the course is due to start. Before the 12-week time period, contact your supervisor to change your attendance status. Follow these steps to confirm attendance:

1. On the My CDE page, click the message “Please Confirm Your Attendance”

2. Select a new status from the list provided and enter an appropriate comment
   
   Note: If you select “Not Attending,” your space in the class will be lost and filled with the first available waitlisted individual
   
   
3. Click the “Submit” button to finalize the change

You can also change attendance status.

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Downloading Course Materials

The instructor for a course may upload course materials to the Internet for access by personnel registered in that course. These materials may include pre-tests to assess your current level of skill, preliminary reading assignments to better prepare you for the course, or pre-course homework to help get you in the right frame of mind to get the most from the course. To gain access to these materials, follow these steps:

1. Click the “My CDE” tab in main navigation on the left side of the page to go to the My CDE page
2. Click the Course # of a registered course to take you to the Course Detail page

3. Note: The Tools section on the right side of the Course Detail page lists any course materials that the instructor has provided for your review
   
   Click the name of a course materials file to open the File Download dialog box

4. Select “Save this file to disk” and click the “OK” button to download the file to your computer

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Printing Certificates of Completion

The CDE Administrator issues official certificates for all personnel who successfully complete a CDE course. These certificates are printed, signed, and mailed to personnel at their duty station. If you completed your course more than six (6) weeks ago and have not received your certificate, please contact IHS CDE Coordinator (ihscdecoordinator@ihs.gov).

Unofficial certificates are also available online for printing from the CDE system. To print an unofficial certificate, follow these steps:

1. Click the “My CDE” tab in main navigation
2. Under the My CDE tab, click “Completed Courses” to go to your completed courses page
3. Locate the course for which you want the certificate
4. Click the “Print Certificate” link below the course number to generate the certificate in the browser

5. Click the browser's “Print” button to output the unofficial certificate
6. Click the browser's “Back” button to return to the CDE system

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Printing a Transcript

Transcripts are available to all personnel from the My CDE page or the Completed Courses page. Follow these steps to print a transcript from the My CDE page:

1. Click the “My CDE” tab in main navigation to go to the My CDE page
2. In the Print Transcript tool on the right side of the page, select the range of time that you want the transcript to include (by default, only your current year's courses will be included)
3. Click the “go” button to generate the transcript in the browser

4. Click the browser's “Print” button to output the transcript
5. Click the browser's “Back” button to return to the CDE system

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Reviewing a Previous Year's Information

Should the need arise; you can review a previous year's activities from your My CDE page. To review the information about your registration requests and courses of interest stored from a previous year, follow these steps:

1. On the My CDE page in the “View Previous Year” tool, select the year of interest from the pull-down list (by default, you can look at one year ago)
2. Click the “go” button to change the information on the screen to the selected year's data.

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