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Fall 2015 Updates
Professional Members - the library of training curriculum continues to grow! Once you join SkillsUSA, you can use your email address and personalized PIN to login to the Career Essentials Curriculum and the new Jump Into STEM curriculum! Check your email for important updates and your membership PIN, then login here: http://www.skillsusa-register.org/ProfessionalBenefitsLoginImproved State Conference Invoices and Payments If your State Director is using this web site for your state or regional SkillsUSA conference events, now you can get more detailed invoices and your state office can track and apply payments! Check with your State Director to see if your state is taking advantage of these new features!
Fall 2014 Updates
We have a new LIVE CHAT feature! Look to the lower right side of almost every page on the site for a "Contact Us" area. Click to expand it and fill in your details along with a question. During normal business hours, our Hotline Support team will try to answer your questions in real time! If we're not around, you can leave a note and we'll get back to you as soon as we're back online.Real Time Credit Card Payments This year if you are paying for an individual training program via credit card, your payment will automatically post to your invoice and you can see a zero balance next time you generate the invoice. No more waiting overnight for your payments to be posted!
Look for more changes in the coming weeks, including the exciting new Chapter Excellence Program and the Career Readiness Curriculum!
Spring 2014 Updates
The Conference Registration system has been enhanced to more closely resemble the Membership Registration process. Now your State Director can configure the site to generate a formal invoice for your Conference Registration fees (please note this feature is optional and your particular State Director may not have enabled this invoice generation feature).Multiple Contest Registrations! While the National Conference restricts each participant to ONE Contest, most Regional and State Conferences allow each student to compete in multiple Contests. When registering for one of these regional or state events, look for the new "Add Another Contest" button to quickly register each student for as many contests as you need!
Fall 2013 Membership Updates
The entire site received a face-lift in the fall of 2013! Most of the functionality is the same, but things just look better and should be easier to navigate. A new menu system provides a smoother user experience and the size of most pages has been updated to fit better on most monitors.The primary method for adding and editing Members is now available from the home page, and provides a quick, simple three-step process for adding Training Programs, Adding Members, and Joining!
Spring 2012 Conference Updates
Many changes were being implemented for the Spring Conferences, including new Optional State Fees for things like Welcome Dinners, T-Shirts or Hotel Room Fees.We're also adding to a growing library of online training videos. Not sure how to add register for a Team Contest? Check out the online video training content here!
Fall 2010 Membership Updates
Restoring Last Year's Members Who Are Returning
This year we have "archived" all Student members from last year. Hopefully this will make it less likely that Advisors accidentally re-register student members who have already graduated. This means when you initially look at your Section Details, there will be NO STUDENTS LEFT from last year, by default. If you have a number of returning students, you can click the new "Restore Members From Last Year" button on the Section Details page, just above the list of members.
Select which previous members are returning this year, and use the Restore Members button to bring them back from the Archive.
Please note the SkillsUSA National Office mailing address. Please direct all correspondence and payments to:
SkillsUSA
Attn: Membership Department
673 Potomac Station Dr. PMB #809
Leesburg, VA 20176-5495
Conference Data Restrictions and New "School Admin" Users
We're in the process of implementing some tighter security measures to help control access to student medical information entered onto the site. To prevent any user from a school from being able to print full NLSC1 forms and access the complete medical information for each Conference Participant, we are limiting access to those features to either the person who originally keyed in the participant details, or to a "School Administrator".This process is evolving, but to start with, we've tried to identify one "School Administrator" for each School. You can tell who the School Administrator is for your school by opening a Conference Participant's detail page, and looking just below the School Address. The School Admin can see all the Medical Details for any Participant from the School, but other site users will only be able to see these details for Participants for whom they have keyed in the data.
Since this is a new concept for the site, in many cases, we may not have tracked who originally created the Participant data. In this case, we had to make some assumptions about who owns the data, and so only the Record Owner and the School Admin will be able to access that Medical information. We have created a new facility to help the School Admin reassign ownership of records, so if ownership of a Student record has been assigned incorrectly, contact your School Admin to have that record reassigned.
We have also had to make some assumptions about who should be the School Admin for each School. If your School Admin is incorrect, you'll need to email your State Director or the National office at customercare@skillsusa.org to have the School Admin changed.
Questions about membership? E-mail customercare@skillsusa.org
Technical questions or problems? E-mail
support@skillsusa-register.org
Membership Payment Methods
We've made some changes to the Membership section of the site to make it easier
for you to indicate how you plan to pay for your SkillsUSA Membership Dues. On
the Section Details page now you can indicate Check, PO or Credit Card
payments, and receive simplified instructions for each payment type.
Online Membership!
The Membership portion of the web site is still open and ready for use. If you
registered your membership rosters online last year, your student info is still
available. Remember you can use the "Purge and Advance" feature to quickly
advance your younger students up to the next grade, and purge out all your
graduated members with just a few clicks!
Print your own Membership Cards If you've entered your SkillsUSA Membership into our database, you can download an Excel file of your Membership, along with a Word Mail Merge document to print all your Membership cards on official SkillsUSA Member Card stock! Click here for more information.
Register for Conferences Once all your membership is in the SkillsUSA system, you can easily register for the State or National Conference by locating your Membership record and clicking to register for an event.
Carry Membership Details from Year to Year If many of your SkillsUSA members come back for another year, the web site makes it easy to advance those members from one grade level to the next and resubmit their membership roster details. You only need to key in the details once, and the students (and professionals!) can reregister for SkillsUSA throughout their entire school career
As always, if you have a question or comment, just send an e-mail to support@skillsusa-register.org and we'll reply or investigate as soon as possible.
Important Reminders
After the March 1st deadline, the only acceptable form of dues payment are
credit card or check submitted with your roster. Purchase orders are not
accepted after March 1 for this year's membership.
After your membership roster has been submitted online, you will not be able to delete any members or change/replace members for the remainder of this school year.
Submitting Your Rosters
Once you've verified that your membership details are complete for each
Section, and printed your roster forms, then use the "Roster Submit" button on
each Section to complete your roster.
Important - ALL Members will be counted in Dues Calculations
Each member, both professional and student, who is listed with your membership
will be charged dues. If you have professional members who
will not be associated with your SkillsUSA chapter this year, delete them
so they will not count in dues calculations.
Payments
Schools have a wide variety of methods to process SkillsUSA rosters and the
associated payments. Some use purchase orders, some use personal checks and some use credit cards.
You MUST supply a PO Number or Check Number to indicate your method of payment,
or pay by credit card to in order to submit your rosters via the SkillsUSA web site.