In this session, join David Mizell from the University of Illinois to hear about how he and his team leverage Engage’s Budgeting System. Beyond simply collecting and approving budget requests via Engage, this team takes their process to the next level, creating reports to analyze student organization funding and to encourage both fiscal responsibility and intentionality when spending student fees. If you’re new to Engage’s financial features, we’ll also be providing a general overview of the Budgeting system and how it connects to Engage.

The Organization Accounting tool is an add-on feature that allows campuses to manage annual budget allocation and tracking for the organizations in their communities. In this training, we will cover an introduction to utilizing Organization Accounting, including enabling Funding and Purchase Requests for your organizations, creating Finance Categories and Types, and building Additional Fields. We’ll also look at how to approve and deny Finance Requests.

Join us for this webinar featuring 2018 Rising Star winner University of Toledo to learn strategies for a successful transition from OrgSync to Engage. Any major change on campus can be challenging to orchestrate –attend this session and learn how the University of Toledo deftly managed their migration by uniquely supporting different groups of stakeholders on campus. You will even hear directly from several key groups of stakeholders about their migration experience during this webinar!

Welcome to your new role as a community administrator! As a community admin, you have the highest level of access within your Engage community and access to community-wide tools. This training will teach you how to locate and utilize your community administrative tools in order to manage and report on all of your users, administrative branches, and organizations. We’ll also show you how to manage specific community admin responsibilities, including building User Additional Fields, overseeing involvement and the CCT, and managing content that appears on Community Home. Prerequisite: We recommend you attend the Branch Admin Training Series as a prerequisite to this training since many of the topics covered in Community Administrator Training training will build upon responsibilities as a branch administrator.

In your final branch admin training, we want to make you an Events expert! You will learn how to manage the event request process in Engage, from creating departmental events and tracking event attendance to setting up your event request form and designating event reviewers. We’ll also walk through how to approve and deny event requests that come in.

Whether you recently purchased the Elections tool or are simply new to running elections as an administrator, attend this training to learn how to better facilitate your elections process using Engage! This training will explore the Campus-Wide Elections tool, teaching you how to create Election Ballots, utilize Eligibility Lists, view voter results, and promote voter turnout.

The Budget Management tool is an add-on feature that allows campuses to build and manage a full multiline budgeting process. In this training, we will cover how to create a budget process along with creating custom questions to meet your current needs. We’ll also look at how you can create a custom approval process that allows for both approval and editing of submissions.

This training acts as your first step in the process of implementing Co-Curricular Paths. We’ll cover all of the basics you need to know to develop a path from the ground-up. We will discuss the path structure, components that go into the building process, and different criteria you can utilize to give completion credit to users. You’ll leave this training prepared to begin the framework-building process for co-curricular paths on your campus.

Are you a new leader in your organization and/or looking to learn more about how to navigate Engage? This training will focus on how to navigate the Explore side of Engage. You will learn to utilize the many tools the organization has to offer, including discovering the Engage form builder! We’ll also cover the concept of Action Center and how you will use it to manage any events that are available for review and/or re-register your organizations.

The key to a successful implementation of any product on campus is to build partnerships within an institution. This can be challenging as different departments might have different goals and initiatives. Getting everyone on the same page won’t happen overnight, but it can be done with intentional planning and patience. Join us as McGill University in Montreal shares with us their process for collaborating with many areas for successful partnerships across campus, focusing on paths as well as a comprehensive Co-curricular record. Our 2017 Collaborator Award winner, McGill will share their strategies for encouraging department participation with easy entry points and comprehensive guidelines. We’ll also discuss tips and best practices for getting buy-in on campus.

If you're not familiar with Google Analytics, it can be a little daunting at first! With so much data available to dig through, it’s hard to know where to look to find the most important metrics. Attend this webinar and learn how Google Analytics can provide valuable insights into who visits your Engage site, how they got there in the first place and how to strategically spend your time in this powerful data set.

As a new branch administrator for your Engage community, you will first learn to locate and navigate the Branch organization and many of the tools it has to offer. At the end of this training, you’ll be able to utilize these tools to streamline your department’s communication and processes, such as News, Documents, and Forms. We’ll also cover the concept of Action Center and how you will use it to manage your department’s important processes.

In your second training, you’ll learn how to navigate your branch’s organization registration processes, from creating organization types and categories to assigning registrations to organizations. You will also learn how to approve and deny registration requests. Finally, we’ll take a look at the Positions tool.

Have you been considering updating your student organization leadership training? Do you struggle with whether to go all online, all one shot, or a blend throughout the year? Have you found that your program is great at covering policies but lacks leadership depth because you’re just out of time/staff/resources? Attend and learn how staff at Amherst College, the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater and the University of Connecticut have developed unique approaches to student leader training. This webinar will highlight program options and opportunities, reasons driving change, how to handle the hurdles of major campus program updates, and considerations for the future. Attendees will learn about prioritizing content for their program needs, various education formats, technologies used, assessments created, and what to prioritize within their own student leader training.

Are you interested in considering how you can make your platform the best it can be all year round? Attend this webinar learn more about how 2018 Campus Labs All Star Award Winner Missouri State considers their long-term strategy of Engage adoption on campus. Guest star Andrea Greer will discuss how they thoughtfully fold in new components and revision existing components of the platform over time to meet new campus needs. This webinar details the cycle of managing Engage over the course of the year including assessing the previous year, planning projects for the following year, key marketing moments, and more.

Service is an important part of our student engagement story, but it can be challenging to track accurately on campus. Join the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Campus Labs for this webinar about why tracking service is important and best practices for tracking service through Engage. Additionally, UAB will speak to their strategy of implementing the GivePulse integration with Engage to maximize its impact on campus and provide tips for how you can make the most out of this integration as well.

Student Affairs divisions have long engaged in documenting student participation, involvement, and engagement outside the classroom. Called by various names, Comprehensive Student Records (CSRs) and Co-Curricular Transcripts (CCTs) can mean something different at every campus using them. Some CSRs/CCTs might emphasize student reflection, while others are intended as exact documentation of verified experiences. In the past several years, advances in technology support and the hands-on involvement of faculty, students, and registrars have inspired campuses to re-envision their approach entirely.  In this webinar, field expert Anne Lundquist will provide a history of the role of CSRs and CCTs and experienced campus professionals from Western Michigan University and William Paterson University will review how their CSRs/CCTs have evolved over time.

Join us for this special four-part series of best practice stories utilizing the Co-Curricular Paths tool in Engage. These brief 30 minute weekly sessions over your June Wednesday lunch break will each review a component of designing co-curricular paths and feature the story of a campus partner on a related topic. This week's session concerns the "Creating a Vision" step of building a path. Our campus partner, Siena College, will discuss how they conceptualized their university mission into a manageable format for their "Journey to Success" path. In partnership with their own community partners, Siena decided how to organize their path to reflect their learning outcomes and desired student experience. We will also more broadly discuss strategies for identifying Domains in this session. Please note that this weekly series is not a substitute for training on Paths, and instead is intended to support brainstorming of new ideas. If you are interested in creating a Co-Curricular Path, we recommend starting the conversation with your consultant to help you organize your ideas and get connected to training resources.