--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_Hierarchy.tex	2006/08/08 17:47:27	1.3
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_Hierarchy.tex	2016/12/29 02:12:15	1.5
@@ -1,34 +1,9 @@
 \label{Spreadsheet_Hierarchy}
 
-There are three different types of spreadsheets inside LON-CAPA: Assessment Spreadsheets, Student Spreadsheet, and Course Spreadsheet.
+There are three nested levels of spreadsheets inside LON-CAPA: a Course Spreadsheet, \index{course level spreadsheet} a Student Spreadsheet, and various Assessment Spreadsheets. The Course spreadsheet provides an overview of student performance and links to each student's details.
+The Student Spreadsheet configures how the overall course grade is to be calculated. Each graded item can
+be configured using an Assessment Spreadsheet to specify how the problem parameters are to be evaluated.
 
-\begin{enumerate}
+Course Spreadsheet \textless -- Student Spreadsheet \textless -- multiple Assessment Spreadsheets  
 
-\item \textbf{The Assessment Spreadsheets}
 
-An assessment-level spreadsheet provides access to all of the parameters
-associated with a student's performance on a particular homework assignment, quiz, 
-or exam.
-Each student has an assessment spreadsheet for every assessment in the course.
-The assessment spreadsheets provide data to their parent, the student level
-spreadsheet, via the \textbf{export row} (\ref{Spreadsheet_Export_Row}).
-
-\item \textbf{The Student Spreadsheet}
-
-The student level spreadsheet presents data to the students on their 
-performance in the course.  
-There is only one possible student level spreadsheet definition, 
-but the data varies for each student.
-The data present in the student spreadsheet is imported from the 
-\textbf{export row} (\ref{Spreadsheet_Export_Row})
-of each assessment spreadsheet for all of the assessments currently in 
-the course.  
-The student spreadsheets pass summary data to the course-level spreadsheet
-via the \textbf{export row} (\ref{Spreadsheet_Export_Row}).
-
-\item \textbf{The Course Spreadsheet}
-
-The course spreadsheet contains all of the summary data for the students in
-the course.   There is only one course spreadsheet.
-
-\end{enumerate}