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improve clarity and mention multiple assessment spreadsheets for categories.

    1: \label{Spreadsheet_Hierarchy}
    2: 
    3: There are three different types of spreadsheets inside LON-CAPA: Assessment Spreadsheets, Student Spreadsheet, and Course Spreadsheet. 
    4: 
    5: \begin{enumerate}
    6: 
    7: \item \textbf{The Assessment Spreadsheets}
    8: 
    9: An assessment-level spreadsheet provides access to all of the parameters
   10: associated with a student's performance on a particular homework assignment, quiz, 
   11: or exam.
   12: Each student has an assessment spreadsheet for every assessment in the course.
   13: The assessment spreadsheets provide data to their parent, the student level
   14: spreadsheet, via the assessment spreadsheet \textbf{export row} (\ref{Spreadsheet_Export_Row}). 
   15: Multiple assessment spreadsheets can be used in cases where the instructor configures
   16: grade categories.
   17: 
   18: \item \textbf{The Student Spreadsheet}
   19: 
   20: The student level spreadsheet summarizes the assessment spreadsheet data for the students.  
   21: There is only one default student level spreadsheet definition, 
   22: but the data varies for each student.
   23: The student spreadsheet is programmed to permit the instructor to assign different
   24: assessment spreadsheets for different grade categories or other uses.
   25: The data present in the student spreadsheet is imported from the 
   26: \textbf{export row} (\ref{Spreadsheet_Export_Row})
   27: of each assessment spreadsheet for all of the assessments currently in 
   28: the course.  
   29: The student spreadsheets pass summary data to the course-level spreadsheet
   30: via the student spreadsheet \textbf{export row} (\ref{Spreadsheet_Export_Row}).
   31: 
   32: \item \textbf{The Course Spreadsheet}
   33: 
   34: The course spreadsheet contains all of the summary data for the students in
   35: the course.
   36: 
   37: \end{enumerate}