The 2008 summer templates are loaded into your web sites. Justin Harris from Evanced offers these steps:
There are templates available for this years’ theme. To apply them to one of your programs please do the following:
1. log in as an administrator.
2. click ‘system maintenance’
3. click ‘style sheet settings’
4. select your desired program
5. click the […]
Kate Gove of West Newbury shared her successful use of the Evanced program this past summer. She had some 246 online registrations with over 3000 books logged. She found kids who were away and on vacation used the program to stay connected and engaged in the program. She did everything to make it easy […]
There was a lot of success this summer using the Evanced online program! I think it would be useful and helpful if we could get together and talk about the different ways the program was used, the successes, and, yes, even the problems! What was one person’s problem may have been another’s success!
I am holding […]
You can add/edit the patron classification list to customize to a specific library’s need but when setting the age/grade type to ‘patron classification’, patrons can only register for the program with whichever classification is set in the program’s setup.
You can only select one type in the list, like “adult”.
Daily Goals tracks the # of days the patrons meet his/her daily goal and awards prizes based on that.
Setting the Prize Thresholds to 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70 (70 days = 10 weeks) and the min to 10 minutes and the max to 120 minutes would yield a prize to […]
This tip comes by way of Nancy Sheehan at the Beebe Library in Wakefield:
If you enter your library’s name in System Maintenance\System Settings\Set Library Name, the name of your library streams like a banner across the top of the page. Nice.
To have two different lists for two programs, set up a “master” list through ‘Drop List Maintenance’, create their groups and assign the schools to the groups. Create all schools and all groups in this area. After doing that, go into a program’s Registration Setup and click on the ‘Modify Group List’. Make sure to […]
Go to System Maintenance
Then to Prize Message Maintenance
Select ‘Default’
This is where you configure custom prize messages!
This probably is getting the most questions! I hope I can explain clearly here.
You have first the option to turn on or off prizes.
If you turn on prizes, then you have several choices to make.
Intervals - In this choice you are determining if participant can, for example, get a prize for every 3 books read. […]
Burlington Public Library has found a lot of Cool Links: Burlington
The Gleason Library in Carlisle links to the Teen blog: Carlisle
Peabody Institute Library in Danvers has added the patron coupon page to their cool links! take a look: Danvers
Essex Agricultural High School links to their summer reading home page
Topsfield’s page gives a definite identity! A […]
