: Competition Manager Tutorials

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Basic System Requirements

Click here to see the Basic System Requirements for the online Competition Manager system.

Public Registration

The Competition Manager software allows you to set up and manage online registration for your event, creating a customized, web-based series of online forms to collect all the information you'll need from your competition's participants, including registrant data; information about each registrant's entry and competition category; other individuals in their group; and, as appropriate for your event, travel and housing options; event-related merchandising; authorizations and waivers; fee calculations; and optional web-based, or "e-commerce" fee payments. Because of Competition Manager's modular design, you can "thread together" the various forms you'll want in order to accommodate the unique needs of your event, omitting those options that don't apply in your particular instance.

The initial registration process must begin with the teacher (or, if a home school, the parent who serves as teacher). Until there is basic information in the system about the teacher, teacher's school, his/her students and their entries, students and parents cannot correctly access the system, nor provide additional, essential information. After the teacher provides students with their access passwords, students and parents may log-in directly to their Student-Parent Status Page, from which they can link to each item in their Registration Profiles. Examples of Registration Profile items include student information, parent information, chaperone information, housing options, meal plans, special award nominations, entry information, waivers, payment of contest fees, and other items as appropriate for each contest.

• Public Registration: An Overview
• The Teacher Registration Process
• The Student Registration Process
• The Judge Registration Process

Contest Management: The Administrative Area

You can manage your event from anywhere, anytime with the web-based AcuWeb System Competition Manager module. Competition Manager is designed specifically to facilitate the management of multi-category, multi-level competitive events, to provide you with a powerful and comprehensive event management system. Competition Manager replaces your traditional paper registration process with an easy-to-maintain online registration system that collects all the information you'll need from your competition's participants. And, because of its modular design, Competition Manager allows you to "thread together" the forms you need to get the registrant data you want. With Competition Manager, all your event information - from contest logistics to registrant data - is conveniently maintained in a central administration area.

• Overview of the Admin Start Page
• Creating Your Contest
• Setting Up Your Registration Details
• Accessing & Managing Registrant Data
• Post-Registration Reports
• Working with Custom Reports
• Payment Administration
• Schedule Management
• Award and Scholarship Management
• Results Management

Contest Day: Best Practice Suggestions

These tutorials are designed to guide you through typical events that take place during the course of your contest.

• Contest-Day Registration
• First Round
• Finals (or Run-offs) Round
• Preparing for the Awards Ceremony
• Post-Contest

Troubleshooting Common Registration Issues

From time to time, you may get a call or email from a registrant who has run into a "bump in the road" during the registration process. Oftentimes, these may result from an unclear understanding of how the system works or from registrant error. The following tutorials are designed to help you more easily determine the causes behind some of the more common user issues that may arise during registration.

• "It won't accept my password!" and other common login issues
• "Where's my entry link?" and other general issues
• "I can't pay for my students!" and other common payment issues