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Part 1 - Facilitator Quick Notes

Section 1. Introduction

Online Help

Section 2. Overview - Running a Meeting with FacilitatePro

Participant Main Screen Agenda

Brainstorming - Adding and Commenting on Ideas

Categorizing and Organizing Ideas in the Flip Chart

Voting and Prioritizing

Viewing Voting Results

Action Planning

Printing a Complete Conference Report

Additional Features

Multimedia Presentations using Participant Split Screen View

Linking to Documents and External Content on Your Network (including SharePoint)

Setting up an Introductions Topic - Attaching Photos & Images in Brainstorm Topic Mode

Brainstorm - Group Chat

Section 3. FacilitatePro Organizing Structure

Conference Structure

Understanding Topic Modes

Mini Navigation Panel

Security and Access - Users and Groups

User Levels - Participants, Facilitators and Administrators

Section 4. Logging on to FacilitatePro

Logon Screen

Facilitator Main Screen

Section 5. Building an Agenda and Setting up Topics

Step 1: Start at the Facilitator Main Screen

Step 2: Create a New Conference

Step 3: Add Agenda Topics

Making Changes - Editing Conferences

Making Changes - Editing Agenda Topics

Section 6. Managing Participant Access - Express and ExpressPlus Facilitators

Step 1 - Generate a Conference Participant ID as you Create a New Conference

Step 2 - Edit the Conference to Find your Conference Participant ID

Step 3 - Send an Email Invitation

Step 4 - Edit the Topic to Generate a Topic Participant ID - Send an Email Invitation

Generate a Different Conference or Topic Participant ID

Section 7. User Profile Function - Pro Facilitators & Administrators

User Profiles Function

Editing a User Profile

Creating a User Profile with Access to a Specified Conference

Creating a User Profile with Access to a Specified Agenda Topic

Creating a Facilitator ID

Section 8. Facilitating a Meeting - Brainstorming & Editing

Step 1: Get the Brainstorm Underway

Step 2: Enter the Topic as a Facilitator

Step 3: Using My Facilitator Settings - Editing Items in the Flip Chart

ExpressPlus and Pro - Adjusting Participant Topic Settings / Viewing Options

List of Topic Settings

List of Additional Topic Settings

ExpressPlus and Pro - My Facilitator Settings

Advanced Edit Options

Item Numbering and Search Options

Renumbering Items in the Flip Chart

Search for Items in the Flip Chart

Section 9. Facilitating a Meeting - Categorizing Items in the Flip chart

Step 1: Select the Topic Mode of Brainstorm - Quick Cat

Step 2: Add Categories

Step 3: Edit Categories

Step 4: Drag and Drop Ideas/Items into Categories

Step 5: View Ideas in a Category and Move Ideas between Categories

Step 6: Quick Cat Off - Return to Brainstorm Screen and Sorted Flip chart

Adding Ideas and Putting Them into Categories

Allowing Participants to Categorize their Own Ideas

Additional Category Options - Pro Facilitators

Add/Edit Categories from Brainstorm or Results Screens

Edit or Delete Existing Categories and Add Category Description

Change Flip Chart Sort Order

Edit an Item Not in a Category

Section 10. Facilitating a Meeting - Voting and Prioritizing

Step 1: Complete the Brainstorm - Filling out the Flip Chart

Step 2: Prepare to Vote

Distributing Ballots for a Second Time

FacilitatePro Voting Options

Basic Voting Profiles Definitions

Custom Voting Profile Definitions

Step 3: View Voting Results

Topic Mode: Vote - Facilitators View Results

Topic Mode: Results - Graphed

Topic Mode: Results - Table

Topic Mode: Results - Self vs. Group

Topic Mode: Results - Self vs. Group (All)

Voting Results - Distribution Graphs & Voting Comments

Voting Results - Distribution Graphs & Dynamic Flash Charts

Section 11. Facilitating a Meeting - Printing and Reports

Quick Conference Report

Topic Reports

Report - I - Quick Summary

Report - II - Voting Distribution Graphs

Report - III - One Column Voting

Report - IV- One Column Voting Graphed

Additional Report Options

Exporting Voting and Survey Data to a Spreadsheet

Section 12. Facilitating a Meeting - Follow Me Function

Step 1 - Enable Follow Me Function

Step 2 - Follow Me into a Topic

Step 3 - Follow Me from Brainstorming to Voting to Results

Step 4 - Follow Me to the Main Screen

Step 5 - Disable Follow Me

Section 13. Agenda Templates - Using Split Screen Participant View

Agenda Templates

Participant Split Screen View

Using a Participant Split Screen View & Multimedia Examples with the Follow Me Function

Step 1 - Set up the participant User Profile to use frames side-by-side view

Step 2A - Place multimedia URL address in the Topic Editor

Step 2B - Place multimedia URL address in the Conference Editor

Step 3A - Direct Participants to Access Multimedia via Agenda Links - Follow Me Disabled

Step 3B - Direct Participants to Access Multimedia via Agenda Links - Follow Me Enabled

Step 4 - Follow Me to the Main Screen

Section 14. Facilitating a Meeting - Who is Here Function

Section 15. Facilitating a Meeting - Broadcast Message Screen

Section 16. Surveys

Setting up a Simple Survey

Additional Survey Options

Building a Survey - Multiple Custom Voting Profiles

Step by Step Approach to Creating a Survey

Step 1 - Plan your survey

Step 2 - Create a Conference and Set up a New Topic for your Survey

Step 3 - Create a New Set of Custom Voting Profiles for your Survey

Step 4 - Build your Survey Flip Chart with Categories, Questions and Assigned Voting Profiles

Step 5 - Prepare to Vote - Distribute Ballots for the Survey

Step 6 - Troubleshooting

Step 7 - Testing

Step 8 - Launch the Survey

Step 9 - Monitor Results

Custom Voting Profiles

Exporting Survey Data to a Spreadsheet

Section 17. Copying a Conference - Making Templates

Step 1: Create the template Conference

Step 2: Set the Conference Owner to "Template"

Step 3: Create a new Conference using the template

Copying a Conference

Copying a Topic

Section 18. Cleaning House - Deleting Conferences and Topics

Delete a Conference

Delete a Topic

Delete a User ID

Section 19. Additional Training and Support

FacilitateExpress Video Tutorials

Online Help Files

Facilitator Training

Part 2 - Reference Guide

Section 20. Facilitator Main Screen

Facilitator Interface Preference

Facilitator Interface Preference Selections

Functions Available from the Facilitator Main Screen

Functions Available from the Express and Express Plus Facilitator Toolbar

Additional Functions Available from the Pro Facilitator Toolbar

Additional Functions Available from the Administrator Toolbar

Section 21. Creating and Editing Conferences

Create a New Conference

Conference Editor

Additional Conference Parameters in Conference Editor

Copy a Conference

View / Edit Topics for the Conference

Create a New Topic

Section 22. Creating and Editing Topics and Subtopics

Add Agenda Topic - Create a New Topic

Topic Editor

Mini Navigation Panel

Additional Topic Parameters in Topic Editor

Participant Topic Settings / Viewing Options

Additional Topic Settings

Managing Topics Setting / Viewing Options at Topic Level or by Participant

Copy a Topic

Edit Subtopics for the Topic

Create a New Subtopic

Section 23. Mini Navigation Panel

Mini Navigation Panel Options

Section 24. Conference Manger and Topic Manager

Conference Manager

Conference Manager Search Options

Conference Manager Table

Topic Manager

Topic Manager Table

Participant Conference Manager Function

Default Settings for New Conferences and Topics

Section 25. Custom Voting Profiles

Basic Voting Profiles

Custom Voting Profiles for Express and ExpressPlus Facilitators

Voting Profiles Function

Voting Profile Search Options

Edit a Custom Voting Profile

Create a New Voting Profile

Voting Profile Editor

Voting Profile Editor Header Section

Basic Column Settings Section

Tabulation Options

Quadrant Options

Primary Voting Profile / Global Display Options

Additional Display Options

Voting Comment Options

Pull-Down Menu, Radio Button, Drag and Drop Options

Color-coded Pull-down Menu Options

Forced Rank Voting

Forced Rank Voting - Drag and Drop

Drag and Drop Voting

Special Rules Associated with Pull-down menu, Radio Button or Drag and Drop

Special Rules Associated with Checkbox Voting by Category

Copying Custom Voting Pprofiles

Deleting Custom Voting Profiles

Survey Thank you and Cancel Pages

Custom Survey Headers

Section 26. User Profiles

User Levels - Participants, Facilitators and Administrators

User IDs

User ID Privileges

User Groups

System Generated User IDs

User Profiles Function

Searching and Sorting Options

Edit a User Profile

Create a New User

Group IDs

Creating a Group ID

User Profile Editor

Access Control Options

E-mail Settings and Notification Options

User Viewing Options and Topic Settings

Additional Settings

Custom Main Screen Options

TCP/IP Security Check

Custom Demographics or Introduction Screen

Creating Multiple User ID Duplicates

Deleting User Profiles

Deleting Multiple User Profiles (Administrators only)

Default Settings for New User IDs

Managing User Alias

Copying a User Profile

Exporting User IDs

Section 27. Custom Screen Templates

Agenda Templates

Custom Screen Templates - Creating Agenda Templates

Custom Main Screen - Agenda Example

Custom Main Screen - Agenda - Frames Example

FacilitatePro Commands for use with Custom Main Screens

Managing Custom Main Screens for All Participants in a User Group

Uploading Custom Images - File Upload Function

Giving a Facilitator File Upload Permissions

File Uploads Function

Accessing Upload Files

Section 28. Managing User Access with Logon Screens and URLs

Default Web Page and Logon Screen - Index.shtml

Creating Custom Logon Screens

Locating logon screens in the FacilitatePro Web Directory

Creating a logon screen

Creating a survey logon screen to collect organization or demographic groupings

Logon Screen That Allows Users to Create Their Own User Profiles

Accessing Topics via a Web Page or Email Hypertext Link

Creating a Hypertext Link to a Topic or Subtopic

Creating a Hypertext Link to a Topic with a Designated Return to Page

Send an Email Invitation using Conference Participant ID

Send an Email Invitation Using Topic Participant ID

Section 29. Printing Reports and Exporting Data

General Report Instructions

Printing a Quick Conference Report

To return to FacilitatePro having printed your report

Printing Topic reports

Meeting Minutes and Brainstorming Results

Printing Voting Results

Dynamic Flash Graphs Report Options

Printing voting results for demographic subsets

Additional report options for quick HTML formatted reports

Power search options

Exporting Data to a Spreadsheet or Database - ASCII Text Formatted Reports

To prepare an ASCII Text Report of Survey Data

Voting Detail by Voter

Voting Detail by Voter with Comments

Voting Detail by Question

Test Score Summary by Voter Name

Test Score Detail

Export Raw Voting Data Report

Export Raw Voting Data w/o Item Description

Brainstorming Raw Data

Voting Comments Report

Exporting Survey Demographic Data - Multi-Level ASCII Text Formatted Reports

To prepare a Multi-Level ASCII Text Report of Survey Data

Distribution Summary Report

Column Summary Report

Section 30. Language Profiles

Language Profile Function

Creating and Copying Language Profiles

Searching for Language Profiles

Language Profile Editor

Main Screen Settings

Global Header and Footer Settings

Conference and Topic Name Alias Settings

Conference and Topic Manager Settings

Brainstorming Screen Settings

Brainstorming Jumper Settings

Brainstorming Action Planning Labels

Brainstorming Conference/Topic Level and HTML Settings

Brainstorming Button Name Settings

Brainstorming Build Screen Settings

Brainstorming Chat Screen Settings

Voting Screen Settings

Table Color Settings

Express Facilitator Additional Topic Mode Options

Text and Textarea Settings

Performance Settings (Default Language Profile Only)

Replacement String Values (Default Language Profile Only)

MIME Type Translations

Email / SMTP Servers and Dynamic Server URL Translation (Default Language Profile Only)

Section 31. Other Web Functions

Administrator Who Is On Function

Web Stats

Ballot Log

Data Check

Send Email

HTML Editor

Quit

Translation Options

Section 32. Online Help

FacilitateExpress Online Support Station - Video Tutorials

FacilitateExpress Online Help

Section 33. FacilitatePro Server Interface

FacilitatePro Server Interface Menu Summary

File Menu

Administration Menu

Web Options Menu

Web Settings

Web Settings - TCP/IP and Port

Web Settings - Advanced

URL/Paths

Security/Tuning

e-Mail/Replace

Scripting Filters

Screen Text 1

Screen Text 2

Web Settings - Advanced: Table Colors

Web Settings - Advanced: LDAP Settings

Conference Manager - Exporting & Importing Conference Data to Create and Retrieve an Archive

Exporting Conference Data - Creating an Archive

Importing a Conference - Restoring a Conference from Archives

Importing Items and User IDs from ASCII Text Files

Importing Items into a prepared Conference and Topic

Importing User IDs and Passwords

Custom Import Format for Importing Entire Conference Data

Backup Options

Other Server-side Settings

Index


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