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Overview of the Admin Start Page
In this tutorial, we'll explain how you, as the Event Administrator, or "EA" for your event, can access the Competition Manager tools for your contest from the Admin Start Page of the AcuWeb Contest Management System. If you haven't yet done so, we recommend you view the tutorials entitled "Competition Manager Overview" and "Logging into the Admin Area" before continuing. In these tutorials, note that for simplicity, we will occasionally refer to Competition Manager simply as "C.M."
The Admin Start Page for your state or region is the central administration point for all of your organization's contests taking place within that jurisdiction. For simplicity, and because most competitions are organized this way, we'll use the term "state" to describe this jurisdiction, although the levels of your organization's competition may be organized differently.
To facilitate quick and consistent set-up of each event within your State or Region, AcuWeb classifies the functional components which govern any Contest in two ways: "Global" components, which affect every level of competition within your State or Region; and "Individual" components -- things that are unique to each individual Contest event.
The Global components on the Admin Start Page do not affect Competition Manager; they are used during online registration set-up, using our Registration Manager system.
For now, however, we're interested in using Competition Manager to administer your specific event. The name of your Contest Event will appear in the list of Contests just below the Global Items. If you're an Event Administrator, or "EA" responsible for a single competition event, you will use this "Contest" link to administer your event. Clicking on your Contest's name will take you to a new page with a number of competition management options. There, you will want to click on each of the "Competition Setup" items that pertain to your Contest, providing the requested information in order to properly configure each item for your contest. (Please see the "Setting Up Your Competition" tutorial for more on this topic.)
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