4honline manual

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A Blog for collaboration with Hogan's brain

Author: Quang T. Tong

Published on: June 16, 2009

Working on the manual. Here is the main opening. i thought it best to tackle the terms and maybe explain some functions before launching into how to. Please add terms you think that i might need to include...

4hOnline is a fully integrated management system that brings together all levels of the 4-H experience. Whether it’s a member logging in to manage her record, a club leader printing mailing labels, or a county staff approving a member’s enrollment, 4hOnline brings the 4-H community together and keeps everyone involved.

To use this guide and to work with the program it’s important to learn some terms and concepts about the system. The following will help explain some of the functions of the 4hOnline system.

Roles

Family
County
Cluster
State

Dashboard

Account

Options

Confirm members

Clubs

Groups

Group Enrollments

Project Aliases

Events

Certify Event Registrations

Month Calendar

Reports

Export functions (pdf excel)

ES237

Filters (gonna need help for this)

The How to's

How to setup a profile and enroll

How to use group enrollment

Print reports

How to search

How to filter

Comments: 5

Comments:

by Russell D. Hill

on June 16, 2009 at 9:10 PM

any reason why you need to do the majority of this manual or can we ask the 4honline folks to do quite a bit of this. it seems to me it would be a little like microsoft asking us to write our own manual for word. maybe some of the specifics should be left up to you/us to create. when i get back in the office tomorrow and talk with my secretary i am sure we can come up with some more terms. also, sorry for the lower case typing, my laptop lost its shift capablity, lol

by Susan Gloeckler

on June 16, 2009 at 9:30 PM

Hi Hogan. I would like to have Tisha in our office take a look at this in the morning. Will get back to you!

by Jacki Zediker

on June 17, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Hi Hogan,

You may want to break down the reports, ie. Custum Enrollment, Custom, Standard Reports... Just a suggestion. The rest should be enough to get started. I realize that the best option would be if the 4-H online creators made a handbook but this would cost extra money that I know we do not have. So I hope that several of us in the state could help you with the work load to get this done. However, if they want a copy when it is done I would think that we should be compensated! lol

by Cheryl Eggleston

on June 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM

I think you are on the right track Hogan. We are really going to have to break it down and be simple, yet not lenghtly (if that is even possible) to get the 4-H volunteers and members using it. I already have had complaints form community leaders saying that we are asking too much of them and this program is making it harder in their eyes.

by Sandy Sathrum

on June 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM

Great start Hogan! I will also want to run this by my secretary who does most of the inputting of the online enrollmet. I am sure it will be a work in progress and as it is test-piloted adjustments can be made. We have to start somewhere and this is a good beginning!
THANKS!