Exercises
How to use these exercises
OCLC's hands-on training exercises are designed to give you an opportunity to practice building your skills while working in a safe environment.
These interactive exercises can help you learn a new service, teach a new staff member how to use a service, and can also prepare you with basic knowledge about a service prior to taking one of our instructor-led courses.
WorldShare Report Designer: Terminology and Interface
In this course you’ll learn about terminology used in WorldShare Report Designer, and practice navigating in the Report Designer interface.
After completing the exercise, please take a few moments to complete this brief survey.
Exploring the data
WorldShare Reports provides more than 50 standard, pre-defined reports. WorldShare Report Designer has more than 1000 data elements, organized into several universes, that you can use to create custom reports. This exercise consists of 12 questions and answers, designed to familiarize you with these reports, universes, and data elements.
After completing the exercise, please take a few moments to complete this brief survey.
Navigate the Fund Balance report
The Fund Balance report displays the summary of fund balance activity by budget status. Using the Fund Balance report, this tutorial reviews creating a PDF of the report, filtering by over committed funds, and filtering by top level and child funds.
After completing the exercise, please take a few moments to complete this brief survey.