Introducing Event Management!
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It's time to unveil the newest addition to Blackbaud's Enrollment Management product. Introducing your brand-new event management experience!
Over these past few months, the Enrollment management team has been hard at work behind the scenes working on a brand-new experience for managing your events. Thankfully, today is the day when we can finally unveil this new feature for our EMS users.
Keep in mind that we have extensive documentation on this for all the nitty gritty details, but let’s go ahead and introduce the new Event management experience, shall we?
What is Event management?
While you may be familiar with the current Event registration content inside of the Enrollment management product, the big problem is that it was on the older side and let’s face it, it’s not exactly the prettiest looking thing.
Enter Event management. This is a brand-new event registration experience that was created from the ground up specifically for admissions managers. Not only can admissions managers expect a more modern administrator experience (with easy-to-use check in and reporting features), but candidates will have an easy to fill out form with plenty of reminders.
Where can I find it?
Ah yes, the big question.
Thankfully, finding it is super easy as it doesn’t live too far away from the previous Event Registration forms location. From the Enrollment management product, head to Events, and then Event registration.
Okay great, but how do I get started?
So, you’ve found your way to Event registration but aren’t sure how to get started. Got it.
Best thing to do first is press Add event, which will open a new modal allowing you to set up your first (or latest) event! You can add things like a name, a short description for attendees, the type of event it is, and a whole lot more options. If you want notifications, you can even set those up for people who sign up.
Once set, your new event will appear within the main list, and from there you can continue to tinker with it. Either select the event name from the list or use the context menu to select Edit event details to add Registration options, see who’s signed up, and other event specific details.
I made my event, so what’s next?
When you’ve fine tuned everything, Event management also makes it easy to share your upcoming event. Use the Share option from the context menu to get shareable links (Authenticated and Public URLs) as well as HTML that can be embedded on your website.
People are signing up! What do I do!?
Okay, don’t panic.
You can use the Process event registrations section to see those who have registered and all of their details. Candidates can have a checklist and staff member assigned to them, and staff have additional options to create a new user account if needed. Select Process to confirm the changes or Print Registration Form if needed. Better yet, as they’re processed, corresponding candidate checklists are automatically updated.
At this point feel free to select your event from the main list to bring up a new detailed view including details like when it’s happening, where, if there is a max capacity, as well as stats like who has registered, cancelled, and the number of fees raised.
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That, my friends, is just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to learn more about this new EMS feature, why not check out our documentation? I’ll also have a video up soon showing off Event management, so make sure to stay tuned to our YouTube channel for when that drops. *EDIT:* Video is live!
Thanks for stopping by this week and we hope you enjoy the new Event experience. See you right back here next week!
Keep in mind that we have extensive documentation on this for all the nitty gritty details, but let’s go ahead and introduce the new Event management experience, shall we?
What is Event management?
While you may be familiar with the current Event registration content inside of the Enrollment management product, the big problem is that it was on the older side and let’s face it, it’s not exactly the prettiest looking thing.
Enter Event management. This is a brand-new event registration experience that was created from the ground up specifically for admissions managers. Not only can admissions managers expect a more modern administrator experience (with easy-to-use check in and reporting features), but candidates will have an easy to fill out form with plenty of reminders.
Where can I find it?
Ah yes, the big question.
Thankfully, finding it is super easy as it doesn’t live too far away from the previous Event Registration forms location. From the Enrollment management product, head to Events, and then Event registration.
Okay great, but how do I get started?
So, you’ve found your way to Event registration but aren’t sure how to get started. Got it.
Best thing to do first is press Add event, which will open a new modal allowing you to set up your first (or latest) event! You can add things like a name, a short description for attendees, the type of event it is, and a whole lot more options. If you want notifications, you can even set those up for people who sign up.
Once set, your new event will appear within the main list, and from there you can continue to tinker with it. Either select the event name from the list or use the context menu to select Edit event details to add Registration options, see who’s signed up, and other event specific details.
I made my event, so what’s next?
When you’ve fine tuned everything, Event management also makes it easy to share your upcoming event. Use the Share option from the context menu to get shareable links (Authenticated and Public URLs) as well as HTML that can be embedded on your website.
People are signing up! What do I do!?
Okay, don’t panic.
You can use the Process event registrations section to see those who have registered and all of their details. Candidates can have a checklist and staff member assigned to them, and staff have additional options to create a new user account if needed. Select Process to confirm the changes or Print Registration Form if needed. Better yet, as they’re processed, corresponding candidate checklists are automatically updated.
At this point feel free to select your event from the main list to bring up a new detailed view including details like when it’s happening, where, if there is a max capacity, as well as stats like who has registered, cancelled, and the number of fees raised.
_________________________________________________________
That, my friends, is just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to learn more about this new EMS feature, why not check out our documentation? I’ll also have a video up soon showing off Event management, so make sure to stay tuned to our YouTube channel for when that drops. *EDIT:* Video is live!
Thanks for stopping by this week and we hope you enjoy the new Event experience. See you right back here next week!
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Our current admissions events are linked to our calendar. Is there a way to do this when the new event management tool as well?
Where is the Virtual Link (under Edit Registration Option) visible? How can I share that with my attendees?
Hi Deanna, it's going to be a placeholder in the notifications within the next week or so. If you have other ideas about where you'd like to see it, let us know!
Will these end up interacting with the admissions checklists in the same way that the old event registrations do? And could you folks add some documentation on how to how to populate the Registration Options? I'm noticing that no matter what I do, it always says that “No” under Registration Available and that's worrisome. Thanks for the much needed update!!!
Hi Melinda, they do! There's a new checklist step type that allows you to hook up with the form. We can look at the documentation, and for immediate help support can walk you through the registration option piece.
Thanks,
Sarah
So excited!!!
Thank you for this! For the option “Connect and invite users to BBID”, is an invitation to connect sent just to the parents? (meaning, not the students)
Hi Deanna, this will connect and invite any users from the form (including candidates) upon processing, you can however, choose at processing to not include them. Or you can leave that setting off and invite them via the BBID list.
Will this be made available for non-Enrollment event?
That is our hope, however there are no hard and fast plans at this time.
So it's mid Admissions Season in highschool and we have events we have already posted to the public in the old system. Is it easy to deactivate those and switch to the new one or should we just wait until we have a new event and start going from there?
We have already had schools switch over to the new events mid stream and they're having great success with the new forms. It's up to you!
I noticed that we have a new tile, called New Event Registration, and a tile called Event Registrations (the old one). Will the old one disappear at some point?
Yes! June 7th 2023 “old” event registrations will be going away.