Web Enrollment Discussion Question 5
As I was looking at one system, I found that they have their projects listed a little bit differently than we do--they have two different fields... one for the project name, and another for the "level" or "unit". So, a young person's project would be Market Beef, and they'd also note that they were in Level 1 this year. The pubs are linked to the levels, just as ours would be.
What do you think? The big question is whether you keep track of "years in project" by the general topic (market beef) or by the LEVEL... so a member might be in Mkt Beef level 1 for 3 years, then in Mkt Beef level 2 for 2 years, and you'd never see the combined 5 years of market beef... kind of a convoluted explanation, but...
For those of you who track years in project in Blue Ribbon, what do you do when a young person switches from Level 1 of a project to Level 2? Do you add up the years in project, or do you start over at 1?
Do you think this is a change we could all adapt to? The change would be that although the pubs are linked to the specific level, the years in project are linked to the project, regardless of level. Let me know your thoughts!
Comments
I think this might be a better way to help track the actual years in each project area and get the correct level materials to each member. The current system doesn't require anyone to make actual changes to the levels on the re-enrollement form or when entering in BR.
We have always entered what the kids have down and many kids just leave level 1 throughout their 4-H years. If they change their level, the number of years in the project just continues to add up. We don't start the count over with each level. We go by the complete number of years in that project area.
Posted by: Boni | June 19, 2008 11:25 AM
This sounds like it might work. We have some kids that sign up for three levels in a project area all at once and some who never seem to want to delete a level 1 project when they move up to level 2. I was never sure if I was supposed to track the just the years in a particular level or use a cumulative number of years for the length of time they were in a project area. This might eliminate that problem.
Posted by: Carole | June 30, 2008 06:57 PM
I assumed the years in the total project are accumulative. Can the software automatically accrue the years? So if Jimmy had one year-level one of beef last year, and is now at level two, will the software calculate "2" years when we sign Jimmy up for Project: "Beef, level 2". In other words the software runs a tally year after year.
Becky: If you maintain the project enrollment from year to year, then the software does increment the years in project. As we are now, it's only if the project is exactly the same-- Mkt Beef Level 1, e.g. In another system, it'd be incrementing if Mkt. Beef stayed the same, regardless of level.
Posted by: Lynette Cline | July 1, 2008 04:41 PM