The day to day work of activity administrators is ever-changing.
Managing sports teams. Communicating information. Fundraising. Registration. The list of responsibilities goes on and on.
One thing has become abundantly clear – there isn’t enough time in the day to complete every task.
Making the jump to a fully digital athletics office has been an area where many Athletic Directors are able to find efficiencies in their work, and our team at rSchoolToday has been at the forefront of this movement by offering a widespread suite of products designed to help Athletic Directors across the country.
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be highlighting all the different ways we’ve seen our 11,000 schools save themselves time by leveraging our suite of products and talk to them about how they do it, what they’re using the extra time for, and more.
There’s so many ways you can use technology to finish administrative tasks in minutes, and bring your community together around sports. If you need ideas, want more information about one of these topics, or want to learn more about our solutions, contact us here.
First up – Activity Registration!
One of the first areas athletic directors have gone digital is registration. It’s the first place many parents are exposed to all the policies and procedures in your department, since the only way to get on the field is to sign-up off of it! Registration for all types of activities from athletic programs to summer camps can be completed online, and our activities registration program helps schools do it. Combined with our community promotional tools (that we’ll cover in a later post), “AR” creates a one-stop shop for parents that they can access anywhere easily, 24/7.
What’s included?
RST Activity Registration is a product that can help you create, publish, store, and access forms to register students for athletics and activities. School forms, state forms, medical forms, camp sign-ups, award banquets, or field trips are all supported.
Inside those forms, you can also accept secure payments. So, if your activities are pay-to-play, or there is a fee to be levied for equipment, simply add it in.
All forms are stored securely in your account and can be accessed on your desktop computer or inside the companion RST mobile app for those moments you’re out on the field and need to track down essential information quickly.
You can set expiration dates on your forms too, so if sign-up closes on a certain day, you don’t need to remember another manual task; the form closes when you want it to!
At the same time, parent accounts and their athlete information is securely saved for the future, so if they have a multi-sport athlete in the family, registering the second time is a breeze.
Another way AR cuts out manual tasks is through its integration with our Athletic Scheduler and SportsHub Athletics website. Parents can subscribe to game change notifications, and rosters, once completed, are automatically shown on your official athletics website. The Activity Scheduler uses this information to track activity history and print awards/certificates.
The goal of AR is saving both time and money for the athletic director, and make sports sign-up convenient for every parent who has an athlete interested to play.
Best of all? No more paperwork. Everything is online and easily accessible. To learn more about RST Activity Registration and all of its benefits, click here!
