· From the Main Menu, click on Error Validation.

· Under Student Status, mark Only Enrolled.  Under Data Type, mark Both.
· Press the Start button.

· After the Status bar says Process Complete, click on the Preview Report button – next to the Start button – to look at the Report.
· Make sure that your Error Validation Report is clear of any errors.  If any errors are present, print the report and fix the errors.
· After the errors are fixed, run the Error Validation again to make sure the errors have been cleared.
· Once the Error Validation Report is completely clear of errors, move on to Step 2.

Step 2 – Error Validation – Supplemental Report

· From the Main Menu, click on Reports.  Scroll through the list to find Error Validation - Supplemental Report.
· Click on this report and press Preview Report.

· Make sure that all areas are clear.
· If you do not see any students names in the different sections, your Supplemental Report is clear
· If you do see student names, fix the errors associated with those students
· This supplement checks for 5 inconsistencies which may or may not affect the balancing of your APR, but will cause your data to appear incomplete.

These inconsistencies include students who:

* Have "United States" as a birth country, but are missing a birth state

* Have a goal of "To obtain a job" but are marked as either "Not employes, not looking" or "Retired"

* Have a goal of "To improve basic skills to increase involvement in children's education" Or "to improve basic skills to increase involvement in children's literacy-related activities," but are not marked as being in Family Literacy Program

* Have a goal of "To decrease public assistance received," but are not marked as receiving any public assistance.

* Have "single Parent" marked "yes" but have "number of children under 18 living in your house" marked zero.

* Have 12 or more attendance hours, but are not marked as enrolled.

* Have fewer than 12 attendance hours and are marked as enrolled.

* Have no tracking assessment entered.