STAT website user manual - Society of Teachers of the Alexander
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1. Links eter tem re ene ae dene Rae d e ERE Vo Dueb tue 18 MY Video G llery nter er a eee n e ie vea anti ate a ene e ye P eaa 18 Other Galleries My Photo Gallery My Publications My Elsewhere on the web Links 18 Login Details plus signature and time zone sss enne nn nnne nnns 19 H Subscriptions email notifications eese eene enhn nnn nhnn nnne nh nnne nnn nns 19 Is CI Ceo EET E 19 J Your data hub Lessons Courses Venues and more ssssssseeennenerenens 20 My Teaching Detailss LE totidem 20 K Getting started with Private Lessons and Venues sssseseseeeeeeeenennnen nennen nnne nnne 20 Help is availabl amp erit em eite euim 20 Putting Venues fifst eei metre ti reb es y esas adhesin 20 Are you adding a teaching location or changing where you teach sese 21 If you are no longer teaching at a particular Venue and all your other teaching details are the CETUR 21 If you have moved house taught from home previously and will continue to do so from your riew address iei edente tree comte herr dy URP eaae reae Caere A Ure HAYE Eo AREE PENA E cod tageds caauaites 21 If you re starting to teach at a health centre or other public Venue where you haven t previously taught os oho Bop ROIG nene 21 If an Alexander Centre or health centre moves sssssssesseeeeeee nennen enne enne 22 L Data entry of Private Les2. Naturally we don t want teachers to enter separate Venue records independently for the same place this would put pins on top of one another and the teacher s with the pins underneath would not get a fair share of referrals So you should only ever add Venue records that really are Private Venues which in turn means only you can ever be shown as teaching there 17 A Private Venue must be a real place you work from It cannot be a general area See the STAT Website Teachers Profile Page Policy for further details 18 Where there are several teachers at one venue the order in which they are presented to Website Users is randomised and will change for each different search No one should be favoured over anyone else eg because their name is earlier in the alphabet Private Lessons 19 Any teacher may give private lessons at a number of different venues Each of these has its own Private Lesson record the equivalent of the data that is in the old website s teacher database 20 When creating a Private Lesson record you select from the list of available Venues So a Private Lesson record connects a Teacher to a Venue WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 9 of 31 21 You can also copy over all sorts of default contact details such as telephone numbers and email address and so on But you can vary these from record to record for example using different telephone numbers for different Private Lesson records Group courses 22 The new
3. The website does provide significant amounts of information about the Technique and STAT and hopefully conveys the depth of our professionalism But if someone wants to learn about the Technique they are best advised to visit a teacher the website aims to bring this to the fore through its search tools and Teacher Profiles In order to highlight the diverse experience of our members we allow teachers to develop content rich profiles that can include for example galleries of pictures links to documents and Youtube videos brief biographies and more Alexander was keen to emphasise that his teaching was an art not a science We thought it appropriate to distinguish our profession from others with a more mechanistic orientation by allowing our Members to reveal their individuality You can regard this as an experiment we will see where it takes us and review our experiences after a couple of years The more professional and inviting the Profiles of our individual teaching members the more the appeal of the profession as a whole It is in everyone s interests to see good quality Profiles on the website Refer to the STAT Website Teachers Profile Page Policy concerning what you can and can t include as part of your Profile Keeping your Teacher Profile up to date who does it 5 6 7 We have wanted to give teachers more direct control over the information that the website presents to the public The ideal would be to let you mai
4. case letters and punctuation such as a hyphen One of the best approaches is to develop passwords based on a phrase that is memorable to you as in this example from a website My son Ryan is 12 years old as a password could be converted msRi12yo You can make this more secure by replacing some characters with uppercase letters and adding numbers and punctuation like this msRi12YO These types of passwords are often easier to remember If you can work out a standard approach to generating passwords whereby you use consistent rules to transform a phrase or a letter into something else then life with passwords can become easier WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 31 of 31
5. email but it is stored separately so can also be different 28 On individual Private Lesson Records or Group Course Records you can also store an email address In this case the email address itself will be displayed to prospective pupils They will see your actual email address rather than a contact form link WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 10 of 31 29 It is your choice then whether you display your actual email address a contact form link both or neither Telephone numbers 30 You can store default telephone numbers as part of your User Account However these are never displayed directly to Website Users Instead you can copy them onto individual Private Lesson records by clicking a button Or you can type a telephone number directly into a Private Lesson record if you want 31 The bottom line is that the default telephone numbers stored on your account are only there to save you time and to avoid introducing typing errors by allowing you to copy them elsewhere 32 Please refer to the STAT Website Teachers Profile Page Policy for our preferred format for telephone numbers Website addresses 33 Most teachers only have one website address but some have more than one Accordingly the same facility exists as for telephone numbers to copy the default website address onto each private lesson record Venue contact details 34 Venues can have their own website addresses and telephone numbers These should rarely be used T
6. that are linked to an individual teacher and appear as part of a Teacher Profile Teacher Profile means the page s visible to all Website Users telling them about you and the Alexander services you offer Unpublished content see Published Content User Account means that part of the website associated with your Login Name that is exclusive to you only you and the website administrators can access this Username is the name that you use to log into the site with It gives you access along with your password to the Member Area and to your User Account Website User means anyone using the website whether a STAT Member or a member of the public Venue is the name for a geographical location where somebody teaches and which is stored in a record in the website database WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 30 of 31 ENDNOTES You can search the internet for advice on how to create strong but memorable passwords However some of the suggestions that you may encounter are not realistic if you have many passwords For example the advice to have a different password for every single site that you then change every 6 months may not be realistic The more sensitive the site the stronger the password should be Your key email accounts are likely to be at the top of the security range as these are likely to be the channels that you use to update passwords or get password reminders Ideally your password will include numbers upper and lower
7. the new Venue address The Office should then update the Venue record and all the Private Lesson records for the individuals that work there L Data entry of Private Lessons and Venues Venues Venue first L 1 As suggested above it is normally best to start with the Venue In what follows we assumed that you need to update an existing Venue record or create a new one If the Venue you want already exists with the correct details you can of course skip what follows L 2 If you need to update or add a Public Venue then you will need to ask the Office to input the information for you but you will need to know what information to tell them L3 To Create a new Private Venue you will click the Create Venue link L A To Edit an existing Private Venue you will click the Edit link next to the Venue record on your data hub page L 5 Ifyou just need to tell the Office what Geo Address to use for a Public Venue then see the Placing a pin section below Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 22 of 31 About addresses Geo Address and Display Address L 6 Key pieces of data are the Geo Address and the Display Address e Geo Address is the address that is used to generate a pin on a map e Display Address is what all Website Users will see displayed to them L 7 These two addresses can be identical but they don t need to be for example if you don t want to display your exac
8. the next point to understand how further Sessions would be added later WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 25 of 31 M 9 NBasthere is already a blank Session showing there is no need to click the Add another session for this Course button M 10 Your Session has a Start Date and an End Date a current Status and a When field to indicate the time of day the Session runs e The Status for a new Session is almost certain to be Open e Your one day course would have identical Start and End dates The When field might say 10 00am for a 10 30 start until 4 00pm e For an 8 week course the Start Date would the first day of the course and the End Date would be the last day of the course The When field might say Wednesdays from 7 30pm to 9 00pm M 11 Now add any information under Final Notes and then click the button You will automatically be taken to the Assets screen Assets Teachers Pictures Venues and more M 12 The Screenshots show the main features of the Assets screen e Please refer to the User Manual sections relating to Teacher Profiles for details about how to maintain Galleries and so on e Refer to sections L17 and L18 above managing the order of Phone Numbers for Guidance on how to drag and drop crosses to change the order of materials within a section M 13 Specific to Group Courses is a Gallery of Teachers e Refer to the Screenshot for how to add a Teacher to the Course e Repeat as many ti
9. you teach K 4 The important difference between these two is that e if you are teaching somewhere additional to where you have previously taught before you will want to Ceate a new Private Lesson record e but if you are changing where you teach i e moving from one teaching location to another you would expect simply to Edit an existing Private Lesson record to indicate the new Venue If you are no longer teaching at a particular Venue and all your other teaching details are the same K 5 You should delete the Private Lesson record unless you have only stopped teaching at the Venue temporarily see next point K 6 Ifyou have stopped teaching at a Venue temporarily and expect to restart teaching their again you should Unpublish that Private Lesson record When you restart you can Publish the Private Lesson record again K 7 If you have stopped teaching at a Venue and it is a Private Venue for example you have stopped teaching at home and you know you re never going to teach there again you should delete the Venue record too Deleting the Private Lesson does not automatically delete the Venue If you have moved house taught from home previously and will continue to do so from your new address K 8 Your old Venue was almost certainly a Private Venue used only by you Your new home is similarly going to be a Private Venue unless your partner also teaches there see K10 below K 9 In this case just select the existing Ven
10. C 17 If you want to expand your search area to find more pins you ll need to do a new search You can t see more pins just by zooming the map out to see a bigger area if they were not found by the original search This search finds 16 pins within 1 mile of London NW1 compare with C 8 C 12 No matter if you zoom the map out you will not find more pins appearing with these search criteria C 18 Another important point The display area is always bigger than the search area So the outer parts of a map might not show any pins even though pins would appear if you did a bigger search Search by Name C 19 You start by clicking the By Name_ button This brings up the Name search page C 20 The Name search page allows you to search by any part of a name or you can browse through the teachers under one letter of the alphabet surname C 21 Using the search box you can search on any part of the name It simply matches anyone whose name has that string of letters in it somewhere whether in the surname or first name e Inthe first example the search string is mie You can see it picks up this search string in both a surname and first name e Inthe second example the search string is Jamie bringing up two teachers whose first names are both Jamie e Inthe third example the search string is Smith bringing up teachers whose surnames include that search string in their surnames C 22 Currently the search results are sorted
11. Manualv5 doc Page 17 of 31 G 10 Don t forget to click when you ve finished your updates My Contact Details G 11 This page enables you to update your Contact Form email address and your default telephone numbers Screenshot Refer to the Screenshot for details G 12 There are some preferred formats for telephone numbers as follows Examples of UK Landlines 020 7482 5135 0161 234 5678 01844 123 456 Example UK Mobile 07788 123 456 Examples of non UK numbers 1509 123 4567 49 0 My Follow me Links G 13 This page enables you to list your Social or Follow me Links for example to your Twitter or Facebook or Youtube account You just put in the URL the icon should Screenshot appear automatically when your Profile is displayed My Video Gallery G 14 This allows you to create links to Youtube videos Please refer to the STAT Website Teachers Profile Page Policy for guidance on what you can and can t link to G 15 There s a two stage process which starts by creating a Gallery for your videos Screenshot G 16 Once you ve created your Gallery you can add new videos to it Screenshot G 17 Just put in the Title and the link to the video and click save When you ve added them they appear in the Gallery and you can also change the Screenshot order in which they appear G 18 Your videos appear in your profile Don t use videos of other teachers Screenshot Other Galleries My Photo Gallery My Publications My Elsewhere
12. STAT website user manual Table of Contents PART dhagsilege m 3 Purpose and limitations oic o cerro etre oer eon need reo ANANE KAOSEAN AUSE SANA PANRERE 3 Structure and format of this manual cccccccesssssssececececesseseeaecececseeeseeseeeeeceseeseaeaeeesecesseseaeaeeeesens 3 illc e i 3 ellc 3 COnNVenti ONS sreci c c 3 USemeec 3 Using this MANU Als c2 vessccceveesce cevsscccevascaccevessacde vanced cevesscdcesasdaeceveesdedesadsnteesobansvasaueascecobededs sademeeeseeadicasss 4 Other sources of information ccccccccssscccesssececseaececsesaececsesaeeeceesaeeecsesaeeeceesseeecseaaeeecsesaececeesaeeeeseaaes 4 Yo r feedback serii ttt 4 Logging in to access the Member Area of the site eene nennen 4 Your Login Details ss sveseecasvistens svcd EUER 4 aleacirA C UU 5 Updating your Teacher Profile Quick Guide essesssssssssesseeeeeee eene nennt snnt nan 6 Understanding lessons venues and courses sssssseseseeeeeeeeee eene ener nne enne 7 VENUES wists EMT 7 LESSONS ANC COUESes 2 cass esee aide deiude ea ipee ese ddacndeedencabecedascecddacceeck dn Re rade 7 PART 2 PRINCIPLES CONCEPTS KEY FEATURES c cccccssscccssseececseseeecseuececseqaeeecse
13. a house number the name of a health centre a post code or whatever The search finds all the matching venues and the associated Private Lessons or Group Courses P 2 This works more like the old STAT website search which matched towns or postcodes It is not intended as an alternative to the new Near Me search as it gives unpredictable results depending on exactly what letters and numbers appear in the Venue addresses Consequently it has been shifted to a less prominent position P 3 The Address Search is now accessible from the Teacher Search Help page which is Screenshot accessed by clicking the button or the Learning it gt Find a Teacher menu Screenshot option This brings up the address search page P 4 You enter your search string and the search string returns any display address that matches your string e Inthe first example the search string is 152 e Inthe second example the search string is Kendal which appears both as a Screenshot 1 town and also as the name of a building E e Inthe third example we repeat the search on Kendal Note that the results are randomised so the venues now come out in a different order as do the teachers within one venue ie Fellside The intention is for the website to be as fair as possible to all teachers WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 29 of 31 GLOSSARY Breadcrumb means a string of links that shows where you are in the system the name is based on the trail of bre
14. aaeeeceeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaes 8 Marketing you marketing the Technique ccccsssecesssnceceeseeeecesseeeeceeseeeeceseeeeeceseeeeecesseeaeeeseeeaeess 8 Keeping your Teacher Profile up to date who does it cccecseccesssseceessscececssscececssseecessssaeeeeseeaeees 8 Teachers lessons courses and VENUES cccceeceseecseseceeceeseeesceeseeeaeaeseaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeanaes 8 MIU I 9 Private LESSONS siirre ms 9 Grop COUIS OS w2eesessutedese RE 10 Pict ring THE structures ea E Ee Rea as ree I enr e EN ERE edu ee Re eed aa sveeusesusechdeceutateesess 10 Your CONTA Ct etal Ss x tet e eee eb erede e tirer t sana leu touead e edite petere vs 10 Email addresses cp e e ee eve a abc e Ee OR ede eee se pda iow ee e eeu ce IEUS 10 Telephone ri mbets eret eed te poe be tre sed rte e iet eie lov aec e pee t 11 Website addresses cere eee tecto tote te b er Liu eee RE Aw rever tied cua edat 11 Ven e contact detalls ete eet eoa te o eee cto On peel tede tov ev edlen euan 11 Other key features sceri risen tive seduce e EE EN YES T S ESTE e EE EYE RR NINE Y e REC Y veia 11 delg iie D M 11 Cem c 11 Email notifications iid e ete e esed e tete tede ve ee tiet tuit 12 PART 3 PRACTICAL GUIDANCE retro ed eoe tacet vent enge ren tene ares ar aseo ae Vende Ee Y XE SNE SAARA NEANS Siit 13 As Howto use thisg ldance uote Eee Der esed te ee teret G
15. adcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the famous fairy story Logged in User means a STAT Member who has logged into the Member Area of the website Login Details means a Username and the associated password Login Name see Username Member Area means that part of the website i e those website pages accessible only to STAT Members who are logged in Private Venue means a place where only you and no one else does or could teach typically your own home or private studio that no one else uses Public pages means those website pages that are accessible to anyone whether logged in or not Public Venue means a place where you and other teachers do or could teach This could include your own home if other teachers work from their for example a couple both working from home Published content is content that is visible to Website Users in some cases only Logged in Users Content that is not published is retained on the website but is accessible only to the author or to an administrator Search string is a string of characters that is put into a search box to carry out a String search String search means a searching a set of records to find the ones that contain a string of characters matching a Search string Teacher Details means all the information that the website holds about each teacher personally such as your telephone numbers biography Teacher Materials means items like photographs documents links to external materials
16. count Making yourself invisible G 3 If you don t want to appear on searches for teachers perhaps because you are not teaching at the moment you can email the Office to make your profile invisible This option is also used if you haven t paid your Membership Subscription and are being considered for lapsing My Teaching Details G A This is a hub page from where you can access your Private Lesson Venue and Group Course data and more besides This is documented in later sections of the User Manual My Personal Details G 5 This controls basic information about you such as your name and title your main portrait photo or image and your biography Please refer to the STAT Website Teachers Profile Page Policy for details of what Titles are or are not acceptable G 6 Ifyou leave Full Name blank it will automatically get filled up with Title First Name and Last Name in that order but only after you click save See the two screencasts for an example Otherwise you can put what you want in Full Name eg with or without title G 7 Your image should be a portrait photo of less than 2MB in size It doesn t have to be square but it will be changed to a square shape if it is not so part of it may be cropped i e cut off G 8 Your Biography Bio can contain up to 1000 characters G 9 You can choose whether or not to receive the STAT e Newsletter Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot WebsiteUser
17. d as way of feeding back useful hints tips and techniques Your feedback 13 We need your feedback both on the website and on the User Manual If we don t know what s wrong we can t make it better 14 There are forums on the website where you can post your comments about the website and flag up any issues or suggestions for improvement One advantage of this is that everyone can see what has been flagged up already and don t need to repeat the same comments though it will be useful to indicate agreement or disagreement eg posting comment reply to the original post saying I agree or disagree You ll need to be logged in to post in the forums 15 Otherwise feel free to email the Office at website stat org uk 16 As with forum posts generally comments should be kept within reasonable bounds of politeness and should be constructive please Logging in to access the Member Area of the site Your Login Details 17 You should have been sent a Username and password Login Details by the Office You will need these to log into the Member Area of the website 18 Once you have your Login Details you should log in to your User Account at an early opportunity to change your password to something that is easily remembered by you but is also secure 19 Once you have changed your password the Office will not know what it is However if you forget it you can request a new one yourself This is explained in Part 3 WebsiteUserManua
18. e e es nex te pee Oe eode 13 B Familiarising yourself with the website enne nnne nine 13 C Te achersearch TUnctlons oisi ect t eed tpe erue tator eed tede cte pe bur 13 Search by Map S NeaErmie iss oer ieri eredi E Ree Re sed edo edes 13 Search by Name 2 tidie ae naaa dicente nemen dice e tastes ipe tec euet doce 15 D Logging into the WebSite ceccccsssnsecessseeceesenaececeeaaeceeseaaeceeseaaececseaaecesseaaeeesseaaeeesseaaeeeeeeaas 15 Normal process of logging in ccssssscccececssssssssecececessesesaeseeeescesseseuaeseeeesseeesasaeeeeeeesseseaeaeeeesens 15 Changing your PASSWOMK c cccssscccececesseseeceeececesceseuaeseceeecesseseaaeseeeescessesaeaeseeeesseeseaaaeeeesesseeaes 16 E Forgotten login details x edente feces EO Ea eE dime taedio ie dedi di dein 16 F The Members Area eee sete rtess tee edes iir Eoaea s Deed aede pesci ro duse detie en eet 17 G Your User Account and Teacher Details essss esses esee eene ene ener enn 17 WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 1 of 31 View My Profile uat tee e ra eta e d aee Oe a tavi du Ru eee rr EE Tea dtg 17 Making yourself invisible esses eene nennen enne te nnns nnne n neni nnns 17 M Teaching Details drene anaa aee trea d te Rm re apad t eee ed eui 17 My Personal Detdils 5 repe t RR HEBR EARN ate divin RUNG dda Ee oa HERR he i Ph THREE 17 My Contact Detalls otn iet tr eee n ei e e Er t eo ye o eat 18 My FollowMe
19. ead or discussion e When someone replies to a topic this is known as a comment e When someone replies to a comment this is a reply e But you can think of anything other than the original topic as a comment The forum area is accessible by clicking the Forum link in the For Members menu This brings up the list of Forums You can click on a forum link to see the topics in a forum or go straight to adding a post yourself if you want see the Screenshot for further details If you want to participate in the Forums you should read the very post in the very first Forum Forum Rules This explains amongst other things how important civility is in the Forum Above all we want people to participate We re clicking the AGM Forum link to see what s in the AGM forum There are three topics click the Topic link to see what was said about it This is the Topic that was clicked See the Screenshots for the details of what is on the screen They show how comments are laid out where to add a Comment and so on Replying to an existing Comment is pretty much the same as Commenting on the original Topic Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Page 28 of 31 P Search by Address for occasional use P 1 Thisis another string search It searches the Venues to find any part of an address that matches the search string The search string could be a town a street name
20. enu items are shown thus For Members Professional Membership Fees This would indicate selecting the Membership Fees menu option in the Professional column of the For Members main menu option b Links are indicated as follows Cookies Policy c Clickable buttons are indicated as follows Cookies Policy _ Terminology 8 Refer to the Glossary at the end if you are unsure as to the meaning of any words used in this manual WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 3 of 31 Using this manual 9 Ofcourse you can print the manual of and if you are of particular cast of mind you might want to read it through from beginning to end so you have a sense of what is in it no doubt picking up useful tips and insights as you go 10 Otherwise if you want to have it to hand while you are actually using the website it may be best to have the manual open in one window on your computer with your browser open in another showing the website If you are using Microsoft Windows you can use the Alt Tab key combination to flick backwards and forwards between different windows i e depress the alt key and then depress the Tab key briefly Other sources of information 11 A set of Frequently Asked Questions is being developed These inevitably depend on what the Frequently Asked Questions actually are so to begin with they are few and far between 12 The online forums of the new website should also capture the experiences of other users and will be use
21. ers e Venues e Private Lessons e Group Courses Venue 11 A Venue is simply a geographical location When members of the public request a map search the map will show a pin for each venue where somebody teaches 12 However as you will realise there may be several teachers offering lessons at the same venue The website allows for this one pin or venue can have several teachers associated with it So for practical reasons we have to keep the venue record separate from the teacher record 13 The website recognises private venues and public venues e A public venue is a location which is not private to you and where potentially at least other teachers can teach like a health centre or an Alexander centre e A private venue is typically a teacher s own home or private studio where only that teacher can teach 14 Please note that if you are the only teacher working from a venue like a health centre at a given point in time this does not make it a private venue It is a public venue 15 The main practical differences between private and public venues are that e public venues can only be added and updated by the Office e private venues can be added and updated by individual teachers e only one teacher can ever teach at a private venue e when adding private lessons or courses you can only select from your own private venues and public venues set up by the Office you can t select another teacher s private venue 16
22. es of content Screenshot J 4 You can also show only published or unpublished content Screenshot J 5 You can select more than one piece of content for bulk operations caution Screenshot recommended See the second Screenshot for the steps involved Screenshot J 6 But it s best to update records individually by clicking the Edit or Delete links Screenshot K Getting started with Private Lessons and Venues Help is available K 1 Justa reminder if you re stuck or confused please do contact the Office We know that some people will find it easy to maintain their own data and others will not You might also bear in mind that writing all this down makes it sound more complicated and laborious than it really is If you have understood the basic concept of Venues existing separately from Private Lessons and there being Private and Public Venues then most of what follows is really just common sense Putting Venues first K 2 Itis best only to create or edit a Private Lesson record when you are clear what the position is with the associated Venue Otherwise you might have to stop in the middle because the associated Venue does not exist for example K 3 The guidance below looks at some typical real world situations and indicates the basic framework for updating your data records The details of how to use the website to do the updating come later WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 20 of 31 Are you adding a teaching location or changing where
23. file consists of details about you and about where and when you teach including group courses as well as private lessons 25 Although your Profile appears as one page it is built up out of many separate elements These elements have to be added or updated separately 26 So there is no Edit tab or button when you view the Teacher Profile page because it is not edited as a single thing 27 Instead you need to use the various options under the My Account column in the For Members menu shown below You ll need to have logged in to access this The table below explains which part of your profile is updated from which menu option 28 Fuller instructions about how to keep the Teacher Profile information up to date are provided in Part 3 of the User Manual What follows are just pointers for those who would sooner get to grips with the website directly rather than reading about how to do so My Account Which details can you update View My Profile Lets you view but not edit your full Teacher Profile Lets you create edit or delete your private lessons group courses My Teaching Data and venues i e places you teach My Personal Details For your name title website address and portrait photo My Contact Details For default telephone numbers amp an email address for contact form My Follow me links For your Follow me or social links like Twitter Linked in etc My Video Gallery Lets you add a ga
24. ge but if you belong to a Private Group you WILL have a checkbox that allows you to decide whether you want to get email notifications from that Private Group Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 19 of 31 l5 Another way to join a Group and to find out more about them is to firstly select the Screenshot category of Groups you want to view from the main Groups menu option l G Then select the Group you re interested in by clicking on the link Screenshot I7 andfinally click the button to join it Screenshot 1 8 Your picture will appear as a Member and the status will be updated and the Join Screenshot Group button will disappear J Your data hub Lessons Courses Venues and more My Teaching Details Screenshot J1 Thisis the menu option that allows you to add or update your private lessons venues and group courses and to retrieve edit and delete other content you may have added J 2 When you have selected the menu option the website will display the My Content hub page from where you can manage your content This includes not just private Screenshot lessons group courses and venues etc but also forum posts videos and so on as you can see from the Screenshot fil f Screenshot J3 You can filter content so you only see certain typ
25. he Venue rather than you Private Lesson data entry L 15 To create a new Private Lesson record click the Create link in your data hub L 16 To edit an existing Private Lesson click the relevant Edit link for that record L 17 To add basic information other than Venue refer to the Screenshot L 18 To change the order of Telephone Numbers drag and drop the crosses or see next point L 19 Or you can change the row weights see Screenshots L 20 The lesson must be connected to a Venue if it is to be displayed You can save it without a Venue but you can t Publish it See below Connecting a Private Lesson to a Venue L 21 You can select from existing venues just start to type in the address to find matches then click one to select it see Screenshots L 22 If you go back and want to change the Venue the lesson is connected to make sure you go right back and select from the drop down list You ll need to clear out the existing Venue field completely Don t try just retyping a piece of the address you have to reselect from the list See the Screenshots Saving and Publishing new and unpublished lessons L 23 There is a two stage process when you Save a new Private Lesson or one that is not currently published a b c d e First you click the button at the bottom of the Private Lesson record screen A new screen appears with a map showing you the Venue you ve chosen and offering yo
26. hey are only intended where the venue has its own details separate from your own and you want prospective pupils to know about them For example you may want someone to ring reception if they are lost Other key features Forums 35 The forums are integrated into the website Once you are logged in you have access to them and you can post topics in them or reply to existing topics 36 The format is deliberately simple We don t include special features such as ranking people s contributions There is separate guidance forthcoming about appropriate use of language in the forums Groups 37 Groups allow a number of teachers to have an online space for their own discussions and documents Unlike the forums you only get notified of new content in a Group area if you actually belong to the Group They are not intended for wide ranging discussions but for people with special but shared interests 38 There are two sorts of Groups Private Groups and Public Groups 39 Anyone can join a public group at any time and anyone can see what is going on within the group so they know whether they might want to join or not 40 Private Groups have membership by invitation only Anyone can see the front page of the group but that s all These groups can be used for special projects or for STAT s sub committees WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 11 of 31 Email notifications 41 Members can be emailed about new content on the website for examp
27. im is to confirm it to make sure you haven t mistyped it first time around You can use the same password you had before but given that you may have forgotten it perhaps it wasn t the best choice Don t forget to scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the save button Otherwise your password will not change Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Page 16 of 31 F The Members Area F 1 You can see the scope of the Members Area by hovering over the For Members menu item on the main menu bar Four separate columns will appear each with another series of menu options Many of these options are self explanatory The User Manual only covers those areas that seem to need more explanation G Your User Account and Teacher Details G 1 Theright hand column of the For Members menu with the heading My Account is all about YOU and your data This section of the User Manual explores the parts that are to do with the information that appears as part of your profile not counting Private Lessons Venues and Group Courses We ll look at each option in turn View My Profile G 2 Thislets you review your full Teacher s Profile This is what members of the public will see It s created from many different sources and so cannot be edited directly Instead you control what is on this page using the other options under My Ac
28. in the order Surname then First Name There is no randomisation D Logging into the website Normal process of logging in D 1 Logging into the website enables you to access the Member Area and update your details You need your Username also known as Login ID and your password You can change either of these once you are logged in D 2 You start by clicking the Teacher sign in_ button near the top left hand corner of the website header D 3 This brings up the login page where you put in your Username and password and then click the button Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 15 of 31 D 4 When you ve done that Teacher sign in changesto Log out And anew menu option For Members appears at the right hand end of the main menu bar Changing your password D 5 D 6 D 7 The first time you log in you are recommended to change your password to something that is memorable to you and also secure You may also want to change your password on a regular basis for security reasons To change your password first select the My Login Details from the My Account menu column This takes you to your Login Details page aka My Account You ll need to e Putin your existing password e Putin the new password twice e Scroll down and click the Save butt
29. instructions A 2 Depending on the size of the screenshot if you click it once it appears in your web browser window it will probably zoom to a larger size fullsize Or you can click a grey full size button above the screenshot B Familiarising yourself with the website B 1 You re advised to familiarise yourself with the website by exploring it It s worth doing this before you even log in so you see the site the way a member of the public would do B 2 Obviously the simple way to do this is to run through all the menu options in turn The main menu is near the top of the page B 3 When you go to many of the pages additional options appear in the right hand side bar The menu item for the current page is shown in light green See what happens if you click on the Benefits gt Health and wellbeing menu option for example B 4 Ifthere s a plus button you can click it to expand the menu section in the sidebar yet more menu options will appear Try clicking one of them You can use the minus button to hide the options again B 5 You ll no doubt want to pay particular attention to the way that your own details appear in the website and to check that they are correct It is useful to start by searching for yourself using the standard website search facilities accessed by the search buttons that appear at the top of every screen C Teacher search functions C 1 There are three Teacher search functions the main two a
30. itive enough for most STAT Members to use without further guidance If you find this assumption incorrect in a particular case you are invited either to email the Office at website stat org uk or to comment in the website forums set up for the purpose Structure and format of this manual Structure 3 There are three main parts to this manual e Part 1 sets the scene and gives instructions for how to log in to the Member s area of the website and pointers towards editing your Teacher Profile It thus provides the essential guidance that allows you to get started e Part2 explains in more detail essential principles reflected in the architecture functionality and use of the website It is strongly recommended that you read this e Part 3 gives practical instructions for using some key features of the website Contents 4 To avoid creating a large and unwieldy document few screenshots are embedded in this Manual Instead we have placed screenshots on the internet and provided links to them You can download them from there if you want 5 Similarly we have not included Frequently Asked Questions within this User Manual because these can be accommodated on the website itself 6 Weare not including direct links to the website eg to website forums for the time being as they would need to be changed when the website goes live in a couple of weeks time Conventions 7 The following conventions are used in the text a Website m
31. l show up on map searches M 2 Youcanthink of Group Courses as having three main components e Basic course information such as the description of the course cost audience contact details and so on e Assets which include the Venue teachers on the course there can be more than one galleries of pictures similar to your Teacher Profile e Sessions ie different iterations of the same course You could run an eight week course three times a year or a one day introductory course four times a year M 3 These components are added in a definite order first the basic course including at least one Session then the Assets and then any further Sessions M 4 To create or edit Group Courses you normally use your My Teaching Data hub page Screenshot M 5 Youcancreate a Group specialist or introductory Course by clicking the Create Screenshot Course link EE M 6 To Edit an existing Group Course then click the Edit link against the relevant record Basic course information with Session Course name M 7 Review the Screenshots to see how the basic course information for Group Courses is summary teacher defined and any hints and restrictions applicable to them Session Type Course Type Course Description Contact details audience cost M 8 Although you can define more than one Session for a course we recommend you start by defining just a single one See the Screenshot for further details and refer to
32. le new Noticeboard advertisements new forum postings fresh news stories new documents This feature has the potential to make STAT much more lively with more communication and awareness of what is going on For example if there are discussions going on in the forums you will know about it you won t have to search the forums to find out 42 These notification emails normally come in a digest format so you don t get bombarded by emails one notification email contains details of all the new content since the last one 43 By default Members are subscribed to daily digests You re likely to get an email most days You can change the frequency and also decide what you do and don t want to be notified about 44 You can simply turn email notifications off if you want to But we suggest you give them a chance and see how they change your experience of belonging to STAT and interacting with other teachers WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 12 of 31 PART 3 PRACTICAL GUIDANCE A How to use this guidance A 1 The web site options are shown in the main part of the pages below To the right are links to any screenshot that illustrates the guidance You ll need to hold down the control key and click the link with your mouse both at the same time to see the screenshot in your web browser Your web browser will normally be Internet Explorer or Firefox or Google Chrome It s best if you start up your web browser before trying to follow these
33. llery of links to your Youtube videos My Photo Gallery Lets you create a gallery of square photos 4 are visible at a time My Publications Lets you upload documents relevant to your teaching work My Elsewhere onthe Lets you provide links through to other places on the web eg a web Links newspaper interview with you My Email Subscriptions Not relevant to your profile My Login Details Not relevant to your profile My Groups Not relevant to your profile 29 Although much of this is self explanatory if you want to update your private lessons for example because you are teaching somewhere different or new you are strongly advised to read the section in Part 2 about Teachers Lessons Courses and Venues or at least the summary below WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 6 of 31 Understanding lessons venues and courses Venues 30 Venues are places you teach Each one will generate a pin on a map when there somebody does a map search to look for teachers near them 31 More than one teacher can teach at a Venue So one pin can have several teachers attached 32 If a Venue could have more than one teacher there for example a Health Centre it becomes a Public Venue Teachers cannot edit a Public Venue even if they teach at it Only the Office can create or edit Public Venues So if you need to add or change details about one contact the Office 33 But you can change details on Private Venues which are nearly al
34. lv5 doc Page 4 of 31 How to log in 20 The website address is currently http www stat poweredbymitkom co uk You can access the Member Area login page by clicking the Teacher Sign In button near the top left of the page Teacher sign in Find an Alexander Teacher By map By name By address The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique 21 The User login screen should now appear STAT Teacher sign in Find an Alexander Teacher By map By name By address The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique STAT Alexander Technique Benefits Learning it About STAT Latest User login User login Pm Username Home Send email to mail stat org uk Contact e Request new password lt 22 Fill in the Username and Password and click the button If you have entered the correct information you should now be logged in and you will see the For Members option appear at the end of the menu bar You can now access the Member Area of the website If you hover over the For Members option you ll see 4 columns of menu options appearing The My Account column helps you maintain your Teacher Profile including your lessons and places you teach By map By name By address git About STAT Latest More 23 If you ve forgotten your Username or Password then you can use the Request new password link WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 5 of 31 Updating your Teacher Profile Quick Guide 24 Your full Teacher Pro
35. mes as you need to until you have added all the Teachers who are working on the Course Connecting the Course to a Venue M 14 As with a Private Lesson you can t publish a Course until you have connected it with a Venue Please refer to earlier parts of the User Manual for more details about Venues At this point we assume that the Venue you want exists and is accessible to you M 15 The process is somewhat different from that with Private Lessons The Venue is treated as an Asset of the Course and appears on the Asset Tab So first you need to click that M 16 Then click the _ Select Venue_ button M 17 You ll now get a lightbox a pop up window from which you can select a Venue The second screenshot shows how to put in some search criteria to bring up a list of possible candidates The third screenshot shows you selecting from one of the candidate Venues M 18 When you ve selected your Venue click that Add Venue_ button M 19 The Venue now appears in the Manage Venue section You can now publish your Course M 20 You can click the Venue to check you ve picked the right one but if so you ll have to use the browser s back button to return to the course you re editing Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 26 of 31 Publishing your course M 21 When you ve added your Asse
36. nt to run the same Course elsewhere there is nothing to stop you going back to change the Venue M 28 Similarly you can go back in and change Session dates to re open and re use a Session N Resource Library N 1 There are actually two Resource Libraries one for the general public and one for Screenshot Logged in Users Screenshot N 2 Here you can see an example of searching for all Pages about Teacher Training in the Screenshot Resource Library for members of the public ES N 3 Youcanreset the filter by clicking the Reset link Screenshot N 4 The Resource Library for Logged in Users has more filter options This is for the many Screenshot internal documents that we have and there are many more to come WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 27 of 31 O Forums Online Discussion O 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 WebsiteUserManualv5 doc The website includes a simple but effective discussion forum Some terminology and concepts may be useful e Containers are sub headings in the list of forums You can t post a new topic in a Container e Forums are the places where you can post topics and reply to existing topics e You can t add or change Containers or Forums they are pre defined by the website administrators You can ask for new Forums to be set up if you think the existing ones don t cater for a particular topic you want to discuss e When someone posts a new topic then they are creating a new thr
37. ntain your own profiles in the website changing them as and when you see fit But we have to balance this with maintaining the integrity of the website and its database particularly as it is new So for the time being the Office will still control quite a lot of the information and we will see what emerges in practice about the best balance Also we understand that some of you are more comfortable with computers than others If you don t feel competent or comfortable to get the website to do what you want please do contact the Office preferably by email to website stat org uk in the first instance Alternatively friends partners and other Alexander teachers with more familiarity with computers and websites might be closer at hand also able to help It will be useful if practical skills relating to the website percolate into the Alexander world such that we can help one another Teachers lessons courses and venues 8 9 This section explains some key architectural features of the website that might not be apparent at first glance The teacher database on the old website had a single series of records identical in format each describing both the teacher and where they taught There was a lot of duplication of content WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 8 of 31 10 The new website has a more complex structure which is necessary in order to allow effective geographical searching using a map There are four main types of data e Teach
38. on at the bottom of the page Once you have changed your password the Office cannot find out what your password is You should use the instructions below in Section E if you forget your password or Username Login Details You should only contact the Office about forgotten Login Details if you get completely stuck E Forgotten login details E 1 E 2 E 3 E A E 5 E 6 E 7 E 8 WebsiteUserManualv5 doc If you ve forgotten your Login Details you can get help from the website by clicking the Request New Password link Even if you have forgotten your Username provided you know your email address you can get a new password and reminder Put in the email address or Username and then just click the button For example if you know your Username you can put that in Or if you only know your email address you can that in instead The site will send you a forgotten password email It will tell you your Username and will give you a long link password reset link which will enable you to log into the website Click that link or copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser and navigate to it that way You ll now see the Reset Password page It tells you your Username and how long you ve got before your special password reset link expires Don t delay log in now and get the job done When you click the link you are logged into your account You should now put your new password in You have to put it in twice The a
39. on the web Links G 19 Other materials on your profile follow the same two stage process as for Videos and the process is not therefore described in detail The two stage process is e first you create a Gallery e then you add materials to the Gallery G 20 This applies to e Photos e Documents e Links to your materials elsewhere on the web G 21 The materials on these other galleries also fall within the scope of the STAT Website Teachers Profile Page Policy WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 18 of 31 Login Details plus signature and time zone G 22 This page allows you to edit your essential Login Details ie your email address and password It also allows you to specify a Signature and your time zone G 23 The processes for changing passwords are described earlier G 24 Please note that you can t change your Username except by request to the Office at website stat org uk G 25 You can select your timezone or locale from a drop down list G 26 You can create a signature which will get added automatically to any forum posts you create Otherwise people will know your real name but not any further information you might want to include as part of your signature such as uplifting witty or indescribably stupid phrases H Subscriptions email notifications H 1 The Subscriptions menu option allows you to control the email notifications you receive from the website H 2 The Subscriptions page itself doesn t tell you
40. ongitude directly in the Geo Address rather than using a street address You can do this by first going to http itouchmap com latlong html see Screenshot1 You pan and zoom the map to display where you are and then click on it to place a pin where you want it Screenshot2 Finally you have to copy and paste the latitude and longitude into the geo address Screenshot3 or let the Office know what the values are if it is a Public Venue Venue data entry L 12 The Screenshots explain the different fields available L 13 There are two additional fields for Public Venues Phone Number and Website As you can t add Public Venues these fields are not shown to you when you are creating a Private Venue Screenshot1 Screenshot2 Screenshot3 Screenshot Screenshot2 Screenshot3 Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 23 of 31 L 14 When you are supplying details about a Public Venue then you can give the Office the information but please bear in mind The Phone Number and Website are NOT your phone number and website they are for the Venue itself and are only needed if you think your pupils really need to know them Your own Phone Number s and Website will appear clearly on your Private Lesson record and elsewhere It may be useful to include the website address for a Public Venue but it is often not particularly useful to include a phone number unless you are sure you might want your pupils to phone t
41. re described below There is a separate User Manual section for the Search by Address option This is not recommended for normal use Search by Map Near me C 2 This is likely to be the commonest way for members of the public to find teachers because it answers the natural question who s near where live or who s near where work The process starts by the website user clicking the button Or they might come via a link on the Learning It gt Find a teacher page Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 13 of 31 C 3 You ll see the world map as we have many World members and some search options e enterarecognisable location in the UK full postcode is best e select the country from the drop down list if it is not the United Kingdom e select a search area button if you don t want to use the default of 5 miles OR enter the search radius directly into the Search Radius box e choose if you want to see individual private lessons or group courses or both preset to both Recognisable location C 4 C 5 C 6 The Map Search function relies on the built in intelligence of internet map searches to produce results When you put a place in the Where are you box as the centre point for a search it simply does the best job it can using these internet functions to locate that place on a map It s pretty good at figuring out where you mean but it will
42. s box empty But if you put a value in there it will over ride the radio buttons Search results C 10 Your search results come up as a map with a number of pins on it or an error message if there are no results Each pin is a place where one or more teachers work The details associated with each pin are displayed underneath in order of distance from the centre point of the search C 11 You can also click on a pin to see the details associated with it C 12 You can zoom the map to see more detail such as street names And if you click a pin where there is more than one teacher you ll see all the relevant details C 13 You can click the hybrid tab to show the map in hybrid format to include an aerial WebsiteUserManualv5 doc photograph layer for your map output Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Page 14 of 31 C 14 If there s more than one page of results and you click to go to the next page it will show you the next set of pins You can no longer see the previous set of pins C 15 You can print the current page of results if you want The printer output appears in a special window You have to scroll down to see the Print button C 16 Please note that the map with the search results is triangulated on the results produced The original search location might not even be on the map We can t change this for now In the example shown to the right the search location is not visible
43. sometimes not find it or choose the wrong location That just means you might have to provide more accurate details Particularly if you say put in a full UK post code it will know exactly what you mean Similarly it will normally recognise names of towns and partial postcodes Please note the Near me map search does NOT look at the words in YOUR Venue address like Yorkshire or Brighton or TW11 9PG If you put in Yorkshire as where you are it will NOT bring up all the teachers within Yorkshire It will find the centre of Yorkshire and search the area specified in the Search Radius see below If you use the default it will bring up all the teachers within 5 miles of the centre of Yorkshire This is how all Map searches normally work Search radius C 7 C 8 C 9 The default search radius is 5 miles This will be good more most urban areas including Outer London If you are in London you are strongly advised to reduce this to 2 miles or it will take a while for the results to show and produce far more results than you would be likely to need On the other hand in rural areas you might want to use a much bigger search radius or no teachers will show up at all The radio buttons are supposed to help you choose the right number In our example we have used London NW1 as the centre point for our search A full postcode is often a better idea you don t need to put in the name of the town You can leave the Search Radiu
44. sons and Venues sssssssssseseeeeneee nennen nennen nennt nnn nsns an 22 MIUIBEMI EE 22 Private Lesson data entry ener en tena nn nasse senseri assa ases sisti anas iina 24 M Group COoUrses es d oa A A A a AAA edes 25 Introduction to Group Courses csssscececeesesesnsseceeeceseeesaeseeececesseseuaeseeeessesnsaaaeeeeeceseeseaaeaeeeesens 25 Basic course information with Session cccccccsccessssceceessscececssscececsessececessececseesececsesseesesseaeees 25 Assets Teachers Pictures Venues and more seen nnne 26 More about sessionis 4 5 2 Ig ee deo ten ci usta dee ane dre po eda dee eoa de dea a aee ene epo eda ee eue cad ned neus 27 N Resource Library 2a d eoe pe dei n nue uciien e iie 27 Os Forums Online DisGussion ote e E AERE ERR NERA Hn AR XA E aA ERR 28 P Search by Address for occasional use cccccsscccssssececssssececseseececsesaececsesaececsesaeeeceesaeeeeseaaes 29 GLOSSARY xtd e ede te ve e ee ve ee ede exei ca pedes recente 30 ENDNOTES 1 5 pes E e pete en ue e abet ede eu E aR a E cer pude pet aco cepe des 31 WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 2 of 31 PART 1 INTRODUCTION Purpose and limitations 1 This User Manual is intended to help STAT Members use the 2013 STAT website It describes practical procedures and explains underlying principles 2 It does not set out to document all the features of the website The website user interface should be intu
45. t house number and street name you could leave that out of your Display Address But see the next point L 8 You should refer to the STAT Website Teachers Profile Page Policy for policies around the Geo Address the one that controls the placement of a pin on a map The bottom line is that any pin generated for you needs to be within 50 yards of where you actually teach Placing a pin L 9 You ll need to tell the Office the right geo address if you are letting them know about a Public Venue If it s a Private Venue you could just type your full postal address straight into the Geo Address on the Venue record It will very probably get the pin in the right place But it might not The process can be more manageable if you use Google maps or itouchmap com as a starting place to help you work out the best Geo address Placing a pin using Google Maps L 10 Screenshot1 shows how to use the Google Maps https maps google co uk in this example where we have used a town and street address If you are happy that Google Maps can generate a pin that is in the right place based on the address you have supplied you can then copy Screenshot2 and paste Screenshot3 that address into the Geo Address on your Private Venue record or let the Office know what the Geo Address is if it is Public Venue eg copy and paste it into an email Placing a pin using itouchmap com L 11 The alternative route and the most accurate is to place the latitude l
46. the first thing to do is to carry out a Map Search using the button at the top of each page If there is a teacher there you ll see the Venue come up along with its current address K 15 If the Venue doesn t show up on a Map Search that does not prove it doesn t exist It may just be that no one is currently teaching there So the next option is as follows e Startto Create or Edit your Private Lesson record e Before doing anything else go straight to the Venue field and type in part of the Venue address e Don t go too quickly as the more characters you type the bigger the risk that your characters won t match what s already in there eg because you re spelling it differently e You also need to wait to see what the matches are it takes a while to search the records e The system is pretty good at matching up addresses and you can see if anything matches what you want K 16 If after your various checks you have established that this Public Venue does not exist you will have to ask the Office to create it for you See below for information about what details you should supply K 17 If it does exist then there will be no difficulty connecting your Private Lesson or Group Course to it In fact you will already have made the connection if you ve followed the procedure in K 15 above If an Alexander Centre or health centre moves K 18 Someone will need to take responsibility for giving accurate information to the Office about
47. ts you can click the button Screenshot M 22 You will now see the finished article i e your Group Course as it will appear to members of the public You can click the Edit and Asset tabs to modify the details or add new Sessions More about sessions M 23 As noted above you can associate more than one Session with a Course M 24 To add one more Session you e Edit your Course Screenshot e put in the necessary details to complete the incomplete Session record this Screenshot appears whenever you edit a Course and finally Screenshot e remember to click the button at the bottom of the page M 25 If you need to add more than one Session only then you would use the Add another session for this Course button to create the additional Screenshot Sessions before saving the Course record See the Screenshots for examples M 26 You may need to change the Status of a Session When the End Date is in the past the Status will change to Finished Hopefully these statuses are self explanatory Screenshot Amongst other things they govern whether or not a Course Session appears in the Screenshot Calendar or on Map Searches and whether the button is available M 27 The foregoing assumes you are running a Course at the same Venue But if you are teaching the same Course in the same period at different Venues then you will have to add a separate record for each Venue But if you have finished with one version of the Course and now wa
48. u the button Now you can check that the pin is in the right place and that you ve selected the right Venue If you re happy you ll click the button You ll then see the same screen again without the messages If you re not happy you ll need to go back and select a different venue or change the venue details if the pin is in the wrong place L 24 If you ve just edited an existing Private Lesson that is already published you will just go straight from a above to d WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot3 Page 24 of 31 Deleting and un publishing lessons L 25 Use the or Delete button as appropriate e Delete if you are never going to teach at the address again and you are not teaching somewhere else instead Once it s deleted it won t clutter up your My Content page Screenshot e Unpublish if you expect to teach at a venue again or are just changing addresses but with a gap between leaving one and going to another see K 4 above L 26 Note that when you Unpublish a lesson it takes you to the same screen as c above M Group Courses Introduction to Group Courses M 1 Group Courses are the most complex data in the website The website allows you to show your Group Course offerings as professionally as possible They can appear in a calendar and wil
49. ue record i e for your previous address and replace the old address with the new address further instructions later K 10 Then edit your Private Lesson record to get it to connect with the new address and perhaps change phone numbers or any other details that have changed will remain connected to the same Venue record which is now pointing to the new address K 11 In the occasional cases where a couple are both teachers teaching from the same home unfortunately we have to treat this as a Public Venue and you will have to ask the Office to change the old Venue record to point to the new address and update the Private Lesson records The Office should tell you when the change has been made and you can check that it s working OK by performing a map search If you re starting to teach at a health centre or other public Venue where you haven t previously taught K 12 What you need to know is does a Venue record for this Venue already exist For example another teacher might already be teaching there or might have taught there in the past K 13 You ll probably know if someone else is teaching there and in that case you can be pretty sure that the Venue will already be in the system if they are a STAT teacher We suggest you assume the Venue exists and just move on to adding or updating your Private Lesson details to follow in a section below WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 21 of 31 K 14 If you re not sure if the Venue already exists
50. very much when it first appears you have to explore the different sections to do anything useful H 3 Let s start with the Content Types link Refer to the screenshot to see what you ll find on this page H 4 From here you can choose the frequency of email notifications for each content type H 5 Don t forget to scroll down and click Save when you ve finished making changes H 6 You may need to use the Breadcrumb to get back to the other Subscriptions options Or just go back through the My Account menu or even use your browser s Back button H 7 Now let s look at the Delivery of Notifications link If you click it it opens up a new section in the page Refer to the Screenshot to see what this does H 8 Finally we have the Settings section of the page Again refer to the Screenshot for further details of what you can do here The most important setting is the one that controls whether you get Digests or individual emails Be wary about unchecking the Digest box you may get LOADS of emails I Groups I 1 The Groups menu option under My Account takes you to a page where you can elect to join Public Groups and also decide whether to get emails from the groups you belong to 1 2 TheScreenshot shows you the Groups page of your account but more groups will be added over time and tells you how to use it 1 3 This Screenshot shows what happens when you tick another Public Group box I 4 Private groups don t appear on this pa
51. ways your own home Lessons and Courses 34 Any Private Lesson or Group course has to have a Venue attached to it before it can be published for members of the public to see 35 To attach a Venue you have to select it from a list The process is slightly different between Lessons and Courses but the principle is the same 36 Private Lessons are simple Group Courses are more like Teacher Profiles and can feature image galleries documents and the like much more complicated 37 You can update or add Private Venues Private Lessons and Group Courses from your My Teaching Data menu see above It looks like this Home My account Teacher Test Create Course Create Private Venue Create Private lesson Type Published Any Any m v OPERATIONS Choose an operation r TITLE DIEE PUBLISHED OPERATIONS r test Course No edit delete r Online payments t amp c Material Yes edit delete O Private lessons with Teacher Test 25 Sidwell Street Exeter Private lesson Yes edit delete r test Teacher Link Yes edit delete O EHN Good Practice Standards Material Yes edit delete r 25 Belmont Road Exeter Venue Yes edit delete WebsiteUserManualv5 doc Page 7 of 31 PART 2 PRINCIPLES CONCEPTS KEY FEATURES Marketing you marketing the Technique 1 2 3 4 The public facing part of the website is primarily a marketing tool designed to highlight the benefits of the Alexander Technique and the strengths of STAT s teachers
52. website allows you to add Group Courses These also have venues and they too will appear as a result on any map search Again there is a rich set of information that you can associate with a course 23 Courses can feature sessions In other words the same course can run multiple times so you don t always have to re input the same information One session might be fully booked whereas another might still be taking bookings 24 Although there remains some controversy within the Alexander profession about the value of Introductory or other courses it is clear that they do exist and they do attract people to the Technique So we want to let people know when and where they are happening Picturing the structure 25 Here is an attempt to portray the relationship between the different record types diagrammatically Private Venue Lesson Org One Many Many Your Contact details Email addresses 26 Your account email address is used only for communication between STAT and the website and you It is never displayed by the website or used for contact forms 27 On your Profile you can also keep a contact email address If it is present the website will show a link that enables Website Users to use a contact form to send you messages for example enquiring about taking lessons with you The website will send you an email but the Website User will never know what the email address was This can of course be the same as your account
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