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2009 Bible Bowl Questions
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Help and Instructions for Administrator Functions and Reports
(Click on one of the Admin Function or Report links below to view Help Information
about that feature)
- UPDATE CHURCH ACCOUNT Function -
This function allows you to modify or add to the registration information in the
Church/Congregation Account. You can modify any of the following data items
that were entered when the account was registered:
- Congregation Name
- City
- State
- Zip Code
- Lads-to-Leaders Year
- Number Participating
- Contact Name
- Position
- Primary Phone Number
- Secondary Phone Number
- Primary E-mail address
- Secondary E-mail address
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After you modify any of these items, click on the Update Account
button to apply the changes to the database.
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- UPDATE USER ACCOUNTS Function -
This function allows you to modify or add to any of the user accounts that
have been setup for your congregation. When the User Account Update page is
first displayed, it provides a user selection field that lists all of the User-IDs
and names available for your congregation. (If you access this function after
your congregation and user accounts have been initially setup, you will see the list
of "generic" user-ids in the following format: "user##-[cong-id]", where ## represents a
number from 01 to 99, and [cong-id] represents the account identifier assigned to your
congregation. These generic user-ids need to be updated and changed to a "real" user-id,
along with the associated personal information, to identify an actual person using the software.
This can be done by an Administrator for all generic accounts. It can also be done by the
individual user the first time they logon using a generic user-id.)
To update user account information, you should select one of the account user-ids and click the
Lookup User Acct button. The following items will then be displayed
for the selected user account so modifications can be made:
- User-ID
- First name
- Last name
- Congregation
- Age or Grade
- Email Address
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PLEASE NOTE:
The USER-ID is used in several different ways within the software to
identify the person and keep up with the questions and answers they choose.
Therefore, the user-id should only be changed before any questions are attempted,
otherwise the ability to track and report the statistics of the user’s answers will
be lost for the questions answered prior to changing the user-id.
If a user-id needs to be changed after questions have been answered, you
should contact the Study Tool Site Administrator by email at
l2lbbowl@rabrownco.com, so that the
necessary changes to the user-id can be made in all the appropriate places within the system.
Please be aware that any user can change their own account information from the
main Question & Answer page by selecting the "User Account Update" button near the
bottom of the page. They should be made aware of the same warning mentioned above
regarding changing their user-id after answering any questions.
After you modify any of the items listed above, click on the Setup Account
button to apply the changes to the database.
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- SETUP/UPDATE TEAM ACCOUNTS Function -
This function allows you to create and update team accounts and identify their coaches and team
members. Setting up a team will allow report statistics for the team members to be
viewed as a group. Before someone can be identified as a coach or member of a team, a standard
user account will need to be created for them. After a team has been created and team
members selected for it, anything about the team can be updated at a later time. The
coaches or team information can be modified, and team members can be added, changed
or removed by any Administrator user-id, which includes users identified as coaches.
When the Select/Enter Team Account to Setup window is first displayed, it
allows an existing team account to be selected for Updating, or information for a new team to be
entered and saved to create a team account. To setup a new team account, enter the following items
into the lower half of the window:
- Team-ID (Up to 10 characters with no spaces)
- Coach (Selected from a list of current users)
- Second Coach (Optional, also selected from a list)
- Number of Team Members
- Age or Grade of Team (At which the team will compete)
- Miscellaneous/Optional Comments about the Team
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After these items have been entered or selected, click the CREATE TEAM ACCOUNT
button. Then the entries will be redisplayed with a message indicating that a new
team account has been created, and allowing you to either make corrections to the
entries, if needed, or click on the link to continue with the team setup process.
When you do that, the Maintain Team Account or Members page will be displayed,
showing the team account information at the top, then a section where it should say,
THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO MEMBERS IN TEAM, and a third section with instructions on
how to select team members, with a grid of available users that can be selected as
members of the team. Select the team members you wish to be on the team, and click on
the Setup Team Members button.
If you are using this function to update an existing team, you would select the
team to be updated on the initial window, and follow the instructions to make the required
changes or additions to the team account or members, similar to what was done above after
the team account was initially created.
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- REMOVE TEAM MEMBERS Function -
This function allows you to remove members from team accounts. This is not the method to
remove coaches from a team. To do that, just use the SETUP/UPDATE TEAM ACCOUNT function
described above, and select a different coach for the team.
When you select the link to Remove Team Members, a grid showing the current members
of all teams will be listed with their team-id shown after their name. To remove team members,
select the check-box next to their names, and then click on the Remove From Team
button below the grid. The page will then be redisplayed with a message indicating that the
member removal has been done.
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- ADD QUESTIONS TO DATABASE Function -
This function allows you to Add new questions and answers to the Questions database.
This will allow supplemental questions to be included for additional practice, and to supplement
the standard questions. When the Add New Question page is displayed, it provides a form
allowing the Book, Chapter and Question number to be entered. You should
normally select the Book to which you want to add new questions, enter a Chapter number and
leave the Question number blank, so that the next question number will be automatically created
for the new question.
After entering the Chapter number, enter the new Question text in the appropriate box, and then
enter the answers for A, B, C and D in their appropriate boxes. Select the appropriate check
box to indicate which answer is correct, then click the Add New Question button
to add the new question and answers to the database.
The page will then be redisplayed with the chapter and question number filled in with the
appropriate numbers for another question to be added to the same book. You can continue to
add more questions, or close the window to return to the Administrator functions menu.
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- DETAIL REPORT BY USER Function -
This function allows you to view detail report statistics for each user associated with your
congregation. Detail report statistics represent every question and answer attempted by a
user in a given session or group of sessions. When the View Detail Statistics page is first displayed, a
list of current users is presented, and you will need to select one of the users and click
the Lookup User Stats button. The detail statistics will then be displayed for the
selected user.
Since this report can become very large when the details from all sessions that a user has attempted
are considered, none of the data will be displayed initially unless there are fewer than 10 detail records.
If more than 10 records are available, you have the option to display a portion of the data by selecting a date
or indicating that you want to view data from a range of dates for the user.
You can select a date from the list of session dates, or you can click on the
link to display Beginning and Ending Date ranges. If you click on that link, two lists of dates
will be displayed that allow you to select a starting and ending date range of detail statistics
to display.
After a set of data is displayed, if you would like to print the report, you can click on the
Printer Friendly View link to display the data in a simplified view that is more
appropriate for printing. You can select one of the buttons at the bottom of the page to View
Detail Statistics for another User, or View Summary Statistics for the current user. See the
Help block below for information related to the Summary Report by User.
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- SUMMARY REPORT BY USER Function -
This function allows you to view summary report statistics for each user associated with your
congregation. Summary report statistics represent groups of questions and answers attempted by a
user, showing one summary record for each session. When the View Summary Statistics
page is first displayed, a list of current users is presented, and you will need to select one of
the users and click the Lookup User Stats button. The summary statistics will then be
displayed for the selected user.
Since this report can become very large when the information from all sessions that a user has attempted
are considered, none of the data will be displayed initially unless there are fewer than 10 records.
If more than 10 records are available, you have the option to display a portion of the data by selecting a date
or indicating that you want to view data from a range of dates for the user.
You can select a date from the list of session dates, or you can click on the
link to display Beginning and Ending Date ranges. If you click on that link, two lists of dates
will be displayed that allow you to select a starting and ending date range of summary statistics
to display.
After a set of data is displayed, if you would like to print the report, you can click on the
Printer Friendly View link to display the data in a simplified view that is more
appropriate for printing. You can select one of the buttons at the bottom of the page to View
Summary Statistics for another User, or View Detail Statistics for the current user. See the
Help block above for information related to the Detail Report by User.
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- SUMMARY REPORT BY CHAPTER Function -
This function allows you to view summary report statistics showing which Chapters have been
attempted by users associated with your congregation. Summary Chapter statistics can be viewed
for one chapter or a range of chapters attempted by all users, showing one summary record for each
book/chapter and user. When the View Summary Statistics by Chapters page is first displayed, a
list of current chapters that have been attempted is presented. You will need to either select
one of the Book/Chapter entries in the pull-down list provided and click the Lookup By Book/Chapter
button, or select a Book and enter a Beginning and Ending Chapter range and click the
Lookup Book/Chapter Range button.
All available summary statistics will be displayed initially, and if more information is displayed
than you are interested in seeing, you can reduce the amount of data by selecting a date from the
list of session dates. If you want to display more than one date at a time, you can click on the
link to display Beginning and Ending Date ranges. If you click on that link, two lists of dates
will be displayed that allow you to select a starting and ending date range of summary statistics
to display.
After a set of data is displayed, you can select one of the buttons at the bottom of the page to
View Summary Statistics for another Chapter, or View Summary Statistics by User. See the
Help block above for information related to the Summary Report by User.
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- SUMMARY REPORT BY TEAM Function -
This function allows you to view summary report statistics of the members of a team, showing one
summary record for each member of the team. When the View Summary Statistics by Team page
is first displayed, a list of the existing Team-IDs is presented. You will need to select one of
the Team-IDs and click the Lookup Team Stats button.
All available summary statistics will be displayed initially, and if more information is displayed
than you are interested in seeing, you can reduce the amount of data by selecting a date from the
list of session dates. If you want to display summary statistics for the team for more than one
date, you can click on the link to display Beginning and Ending Date ranges. If you click on that
link, two lists of dates will be displayed that allow you to select a starting and ending date
range of summary statistics to display.
After a set of data is displayed, you can select one of the buttons at the bottom of the page to
View Summary Statistics for another Team, or View Summary Statistics by User. See the
Help block above for information related to the Summary Report by User.
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- SUMMARY REPORT BY CHURCH Function -
This function allows you to view summary report statistics for users associated with your
congregation, showing one summary record for each user. When the View Summary Statistics
by Church-ID page is first displayed, a summary record for each user will be displayed,
and a list of the existing session dates is presented.
If more information is displayed than you are interested in seeing, you can reduce the amount
of data by selecting a date from the list of session dates. If you want to display summary
statistics for more than one date, you can click on the link to display Beginning
and Ending Date ranges. If you click on that link, two lists of dates will be displayed that
allow you to select a starting and ending date range of summary statistics to display.
After a set of data is displayed, you can select one of the buttons at the bottom of the page to
Close the Window and return to the Administrator menu page, or View Summary Statistics by User.
See the Help block above for information related to the Summary Report by User.
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- LIST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Function -
This function allows you to view and print the existing Questions and Answers
by one or more chapters. This page also allows you to print a copy of the Answer Key
for all questions, and the additional Research Questions that can be used for deeper study.
The Questions and Answers can be displayed either
with or without the correct answers identified by highlighting and asterisks.
When the View or Print Bible Bowl Questions and Answers page is displayed, two option blocks
are available to list the Questions and Answers by either one book and chapter, a range
of chapters for a book, or all books and chapters. The first option block allows the
questions to be listed without the correct answers identified. The second option block
allows the questions to be listed with the correct answers identified.
An additional feature of note allows a "Page Size" value to be identified. The purpose of this number is
to provide an adjustment factor to accommodate different internet browsers, and the way they print pages
on different printers. The default setting of 35 for the Page Size should produce pages with about 5 or 6
questions and answers on each page, at what most browsers consider 100% viewing. If the browser you use
allows you to adjust, or "shrink", the size of the pages to be printed, you may want to adjust the Page Size
setting to a higher value to allow more questions to print on each page.
This will allow a larger number of questions to be printed on fewer pages.
On average, for every 5 lines that the
Page Size setting is increased, the printing percentage should be reduced by 10-20%. For example, if you increase the
Page Size from 35 to 45 (which will print about 2 more questions per page), the printing percentage should be reduced
to about 70% or 80%.
Since the available browsers and printers being used by different congregations will
produce a variety of printing capabilities, each group will need to experiment with the adjustable settings of
Page Size and printing percentages to find the optimum settings for their particular situation. If you have
any questions about these adjustments, please contact the Bible Bowl Questions Study Tool Site Administrator at
the email address or phone numbers shown at the bottom of this page.
When the book and chapter or chapters to be viewed are selected, a separate page will
be displayed with the selected questions and answers shown in a simplified format
suitable for printing. After you view and/or print the questions that were
selected, you can either choose to view questions from other chapters or close the
window and return to the Administrator functions menu page.
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