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Family Commitment Program Many Hands Make Light Work

Sign Up Genius & Help Counter Instructions

Contents Page

Step 1: Signup Click Email Link to View the Sign Up Page 2 Choose the Items You Want 3 Enter Your Contact Info 4 Confirmation & Calendar 5 Reminder 6

Step 2: Help Arrival Sign-In 7 Departure Sign-Out 9

Step 3: Count Hours Log Your Hours on HelpCounter site 11 Log Your Hours on HelpCounter Facebook App 14 Monthly Report 18

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Step 1: Signup Click Email Link to View the Sign Up Page Specific events will be advertised via email for shifts, donations, etc. Click on the email link to get to the sign up page.

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Choose the Items You Want On the sign up page, click the “Sign Up” buttons next to the slots you want to sign up for. You can click

more than one.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the big “Submit & Sign Up” button.

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Enter Your Contact Info You will now see a second page where you can enter your contact info. If you already have an account,

you can simply login. If you are new to the site, you can type in your information.

Depending on the sign up, you may be asked to fill in some other fields in addition to your contact info.

After you have completed the form fields, click “Sign Up Now” at the bottom of the page.

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Confirmation & Calendar

The “Thank You” page will display indicating you have successfully completed the steps to sign up

You can click on a calendar icon displayed to add the item to your calendar if you’d like

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Reminder

A reminder email will be sent before the event

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Step 2: Help Arrival Sign-In

Click on your name

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Select whether you are here to help with an activity or in a classroom then select which activity or classroom

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Click ‘Sign Me In’

Departure Sign-Out

When you are leaving, click “I’m Done For Today”

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And you will get a confirmation thanking you

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Step 3: Count Hours Log Your Hours on HelpCounter site

If you need to enter in hours beyond those logged when signing in & out during your help, go to www.helpcounter.net and click to record your hours

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Enter your user name and password

Select “Record Hours/Review Hours Volunteered”

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Click ‘Add New Hours’

Enter in the date, hours and activity or classroom then click ‘Record Changes’

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Log Your Hours on HelpCounter Facebook App Enter ‘HelpCounter’ in the search bar and select ‘HelpCounter Volunteer Software’. Click ‘Allow’

Enter your email address to search

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Confirmation screen that your email was found with the school

Check your email and click on the link to update HelpCounter

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Confirmation page that HelpCounter was added to your Facebook account

Now whenever you are in Facebook, you can select HelpCounter Volunteer’ from apps

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Select Enter/Edit Hours

Complete the date, activity or class and hours then click Save Data & the History on the right will update

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Or click ‘View Hours Summary’

Monthly Report

Monthly emails will be sent the beginning of each month reporting hours logged for the school year through the end of the last month.