Setting up ReadSquared Participants the First Time
This is the first time we are trying an online summer reading program. We are hoping the Read2ed app will be appealing enough that most of our families will enter themselves, but I want to make sure we are prepared for a number of traditional registrations and I want to develop a process that makes it as easy as possible for staff to add these users to ReadSquared. I'm specifically wondering about the best way to register family groups. The video for registering participants - https://www.readsquared.com/Training/2019/04_Staff/RegisteringParticipants.m... includes the steps for batch uploading individuals, but it doesn't seem to include the family group link. So, those of you who have done this before, which procedure makes the most sense: A. Register families individually with the parent first, then individual children, or B. Batch register individuals and then link them to the parents one by one. Any feedback is appreciated. Peter Butts, MLS Children's Librarian, Three Rivers Public Library - READ. LEARN. DREAM. - 269.273.8666, ext. 202 cel: 269.388.3938 www.threeriverslibrary.org<http://www.threeriverlibrary.org>
My vote is to definitely register the parent and then add individual children. But I've never done batch registering before - we require the parents to register themselves and add their kiddos themselves. Jocelyn Levin, MLIS Youth Services Librarian jlevin@ltpl.org **Please note new email address** Lyon Township Public Library 27005 S. Milford Rd, South Lyon, MI 48178 248.437.8800 www.LTPL.org On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 2:12 PM Peter Butts via Michlib-l < michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:
This is the first time we are trying an online summer reading program. We are hoping the Read2ed app will be appealing enough that most of our families will enter themselves, but I want to make sure we are prepared for a number of traditional registrations and I want to develop a process that makes it as easy as possible for staff to add these users to ReadSquared.
I'm specifically wondering about the best way to register family groups. The video for registering participants - https://www.readsquared.com/Training/2019/04_Staff/RegisteringParticipants.m... includes the steps for batch uploading individuals, but it doesn't seem to include the family group link.
So, those of you who have done this before, which procedure makes the most sense:
A. Register families individually with the parent first, then individual children, or B. Batch register individuals and then link them to the parents one by one.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Peter Butts, MLS Children's Librarian, *Three Rivers Public Library* *- READ. LEARN. DREAM. -* 269.273.8666, ext. 202 cel: 269.388.3938 www.threeriverslibrary.org <http://www.threeriverlibrary.org>
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We do it the way Jocelyn described. Overall I think the process is easy. To make it easier for patrons, I suggest limiting your registration questions as much as possible (so each family doesn’t need to enter the age, grade, gender, school, etc. for every child in their family), especially if you won’t be using that data anyway. Janice Heilman Head of Youth Services Howell Carnegie District Library
On Apr 21, 2022, at 4:03 PM, Jocelyn Levin via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:
My vote is to definitely register the parent and then add individual children. But I've never done batch registering before - we require the parents to register themselves and add their kiddos themselves.
Jocelyn Levin, MLIS Youth Services Librarian jlevin@ltpl.org *Please note new email address*
Lyon Township Public Library 27005 S. Milford Rd, South Lyon, MI 48178 248.437.8800 www.LTPL.org
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 2:12 PM Peter Butts via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote: This is the first time we are trying an online summer reading program. We are hoping the Read2ed app will be appealing enough that most of our families will enter themselves, but I want to make sure we are prepared for a number of traditional registrations and I want to develop a process that makes it as easy as possible for staff to add these users to ReadSquared.
I'm specifically wondering about the best way to register family groups. The video for registering participants - https://www.readsquared.com/Training/2019/04_Staff/RegisteringParticipants.m... includes the steps for batch uploading individuals, but it doesn't seem to include the family group link.
So, those of you who have done this before, which procedure makes the most sense:
A. Register families individually with the parent first, then individual children, or B. Batch register individuals and then link them to the parents one by one.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Peter Butts, MLS Children's Librarian, Three Rivers Public Library - READ. LEARN. DREAM. - 269.273.8666, ext. 202 cel: 269.388.3938 www.threeriverslibrary.org
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Peter Butts