1. Today’s students. Tomorrow’s business professionals. The WSAP Pre-Submission System

2. Certain contests require some documents to be submitted and judged beforehand –Web Site Design Team, Economic Research Project Individual, etc. –Submissions receive technical scores, used in combination with performance at the conference Pre-2011 NLC: –Through snail mail or e-mail –No confirmation of delivery –Laborious process to get material to judges, get responses, etc. A variety of processes at the State/Regional level WSAP Pre-Submission in the Past

3. Simple web-based upload system. Student or advisor chooses conference, division, and event from drop-down menus. Student or advisors enter national member ID Upload multiple files Progress bar shows file upload progress. Confirmation page, confirmation e-mail, and confirmation number. Simple, all-inclusive web-based judging system. Very positive feedback Last Year’s NLC System

4. BPA regions and states can use our system for free Totally optional Easy-to-use system, work with Joe to make it happen How to get the ball rolling: –Get info to Joe: region/state name, contact person, e-mail address, and alist of events to have pre-submitted –Get trained (for example, this webinar) –Joe will then e-mail you a username and password for the system –Control the entire process yourself, with support from Joe This Year: Adding States and Regions

5. http://www.bpa.org/submit –(OR http://www.bpa.org/contests)http://www.bpa.org/contests –(they go to the same place) –Listed in the WSAP Guidelines –Conference administrators must give this URL to students/advisors Using the System: Submitting Documents

6. Main functions to learn: –Logging in at http://www.bpa.org/judgecontestshttp://www.bpa.org/judgecontests –Opening/closing events for submission –Viewing, deleting and adding to entries –Add usernames for judges and assign events –Export data after judges have done their work Using the System: Administrators

7. Log in at the same place as administrators: http://www.bpa.org/judgecontests http://www.bpa.org/judgecontests Events assigned to a particular judge automatically show up They can click on the event, review documents, and fill out the rubric (from the WSAP) online. You WILL need to provide the event’s guidelines to the judge. Using the System: Judges

8. Catching errors and taking care of them: Contact Joe! Regularly review files coming in to make sure they are being submitted correctly File size limit: 25 MB Challenges Moving Forward

9. Today’s students. Tomorrow’s business professionals. The WSAP Pre-Submission System Questions?

10. Today’s students. Tomorrow’s business professionals. The WSAP Pre-Submission System Joe Ellis Interactive Technology Specialist jellis@bpa.org 614-895-7277 x304