Creating and Editing Events

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Go to Settings > Admissions > Events and select Create New Event. Choose Repeatable or One Time, fill in the event details and select Save Changes. Use Export to CSV on the same page to download the participant list.

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Creating and editing events

For admins who set up tours and open days that families can register for.

I want to Go to
Create a new event Create an event
Change, unpublish or delete an event Edit an existing event
Download who has registered Export a list of participants

Create an event

Go to Settings > Admissions > Events and select Create New Event.

Screenshot: the Create New Event button on the Events page

Choose a recurring or one-time event

Recurring event

Select Repeatable at the top of the page, then set the length of each event in the Duration dropdown.

Screenshot: the Repeatable option and Duration dropdown
  1. To stop registrations before the event starts, tick Close Registration and set how many days, hours and minutes before the start time.

  2. Set the Duration of each event.

  3. Tick the Days of the week the event is available. Select +Add Hours to add time slots to each day, and select the Hours to adjust the ranges. Choose when the event Starts and how often it Repeats.

  4. Select the Hosts box to choose the host for each available time. Any admin user can be a host.

  5. Choose a date when the event Ends, or select Doesn't End.

    Screenshot: recurring event settings for registration, days, hours, hosts and end date

One-time event

Select One Time, then set the Date, Start and End times.

Screenshot: the One Time option with Date, Start and End

Add the event details

  1. In the Event Type dropdown, select Open Day, Tour, Virtual Open Day or Virtual Tour.

  2. Enter the Title, Description and Location.

  3. To limit numbers, enter a number in Capacity.

    Screenshot: Event Type, Title, Description, Location and Capacity fields
  4. For Open Day events with a capacity, you can also set Limit Per Registration to limit how many people one family can register, and change the Capacity question to count parents, children or both.

  5. Select Save Changes.

    Screenshot: Limit Per Registration, Capacity question and Save Changes

Edit an existing event

  1. Go to Settings > Admissions > Events.

  2. Select the Recurring Event or One-Time Event header to see that type of event.

  3. Select the Edit icon next to the event.

    Screenshot: the Edit icon next to an event

To stop parents registering for now, untick Published. Tick it again when you are ready to take registrations.

To remove an event, select the Delete icon to the right of it.

Screenshot: the Published checkbox and Delete icon

You cannot delete an event while families are registered for it.

Export a list of participants

Go to Settings > Admissions > Events and select the Export to CSV icon. A spreadsheet downloads with the event title, date, participant names and number of attendees.

Screenshot: the Export to CSV icon

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