Welcome to the Second Tutorial Welcome to the second part of this information system website tutorial! This tutorial is for church planters. If you’d like to run through the presentation, just click below. If you’d like to take your time, click on Slide Show.

What we want to show you how to… Fill out a monthly report and update other information in the information system. Use the Chat Room. Participate in a Forum. Register for a training event. Enter a new resource into the resource system.

Log In To edit your information in the information system, you will need to use the username & password given to you at your assessment or basic training. Then click “Log In”.

Locating your information When you log in, you will find a list of options that you as a church planter will most likely need. To return to this page, move your cursor over “My Home” and click on “My Home Page”.

Locating your public page This page is your own “home page”. Now let’s click on the bullet in front of “View my public page”.

Viewing your public page You probably remember from the General Tour that there is one page for each church planter that can be accessed by the general public. You should check it regularly to make sure all the info is current. Let’s click the “X” to close this page.

Locating how to edit your info Now let’s click on the bullet in front of “Edit my information”.

Viewing the edit page Here’s where all your information is stored. Later you can work down this page updating your information as you go. Let’s scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Submitting updated info Each time after you change any of your information, you will need to click “Submit” to update the information system.

This page contains all your information, but it is much easier to read in this format. Now let’s go back to your home page by moving your cursor over “My Home” and clicking “My Home Page”.

Locating the monthly report – regular form Now let’s click the bullet in front of “Fill in a Monthly Report” to fill in your monthly report.

Filling out your monthly report As you fill out your monthly report, it will update any matching fields in the information system. Now scroll down.

Entering email addresses Before you submit your report, be sure to enter the email addresses of everyone (including yourself) that should receive an automatic email notifying them that you have submitted your monthly report. Then click the “Submit” button.

Automatic emails This is a sample of the emails that will be automatically generated when you click the submit button. Each person will receive a hyperlink to your report so they can read & print your report. Let’s click on it.

Print your monthly report You can print your report out so you’ll have a hard copy of it.

Viewing previous monthly reports If you would ever need to review your monthly reports, go to My Home and click on “View My Monthly Reports” or click on Reports and select Monthly Reports – Church Planter. This is what you’d see.

Viewing & editing a monthly report You can view the report by clicking on your name or edit the monthly report by clicking on the edit button. To fill out a new report, just click on Fill in a Monthly Report. Let’s click on the Chat Room now.

Logging into the Chat Room Type in whatever name or nickname you’d like to use as you chat with other planters or facilitators that are in the chat room. Then click Login. (Note: in this example no users are logged in. You may need to schedule a time when you would like to meet others here.)

Navigating the Chat Room To the right you will see which users are logged in. The Chat Room that you are currently in is in bold. Just click another room to switch chat rooms or you can type in the name of a new room and click ADD to add it. To type a message just start typing in the message box and then click Send.

Logging out of the Chat Room When you are finished chatting, please make sure that you logout by clicking the LOGOUT button below.

Finding the Forums To join a forum click on Forums under the Facilitators tab.

Registering for a Forum If this is your first time to the Church Planting Forums, you will need to register. Click on Register. Next time, you can use the username and password you will register with and log in.

Agreeing with the Policy Agreement Just click on the Agree button.

Submitting the Registration Form Fill out the registration form and then click Submit.

Check what topics are being discussed Click on Church Planter Forums to see what topics have been discussed.

Finding the Forums No topics! It’s time to get something going. Click on New Topic

Posting a New Topic Fill in a Subject and the Message and then click on Post New Topic.

Responding to a topic By clicking on the Topic, you can read the message and then respond. Now let’s logout for now.

Leaving the forum Click on the Home button to get back to the rest of the information system.

Returning to your personal page Let’s click on My Home Page to take you back to your personal page.

Finding where to register for training events Here’s how to register for a training event. Just click on the “Training Registration” bullet.

Selecting a training event Click the button of the event you would like to register for. Then click the Register button at the bottom of the page.

Locating where to add a new resource Now let me show you how to add a new resource to our resource system. Move your cursor over “Resources” and click on the “Add a New Resource”.

Selecting the correct file folder Let’s add a helpful website to the Resource List. The Modern Language Assoc website (www.mla.org) would best go under the folder called Language Resources.

Entering new resource data Type in the resource, any contact information, the title of the hyperlink and the hyperlink address. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Determining partners in ministry This is the tricky part! Click the person/organi-zation who is responsible for providing a resource/ service and then to which associations & networks the resource applies. Then click “Submit”.

View new resource info Now you can review the resource to make sure all of the information is correct. Make sure that http:// does not appear twice in the hyperlink. Scroll down to see the bottom of the page.

The next tour… This concludes the second part of the information system tutorial. If you resource church planters, please return to the information system Home page and continue with the Facilitator tutorial.