Guides and information on using this system.

All that a member needs to know....

For a member of the club all they need to do is click on the blue Join Our Club on the home page.

  • If you have MyPhotoClub account log in, or register for a new account.
  • Your club will have provided you with a joining code - enter this code and submit.
  • A grey Members button takes you to the entry page.
  • Green buttons lead you to open competitions to entered.
  • Blue buttons lead you to published competition where you can view, vote and comment.
Click here to join


Judging/evaluating competitions...

There are many methods to judge/evaluate a competition. In all these cases, the judge/evaluator can be a member or external to the club.

Online Scoring

  • Each person enters a score against each entry (1-5 or 1-9)
  • Sum of scores determines the most successful entries
  • All members and/or external account holders can participate
  • Voting for own image is replace with average from other scorers

Remote Judging

  • Single judge (member or external account holder)
  • Judge can enter a comment and give award for each entry
  • Comments visible to all members and included in results message

Favourite Voting

  • Each member votes to select their favourite
  • Running tally on the page
Video coming


Managing competitions...

Managing competitions is done in Manage Collections under the Management button. Competitions are always grouped into Collections.

Online Scoring

Setting up

  • In Manage Collections goto Online Scoring
  • Select the scorers by:
    • Single button to include all members
    • Select a member from a list
    • Enter email address of person to score


Finalising

  • In Manage Collections goto Online Scoring
  • Select the collection and competition to use
  • Check scoring status - Close off Scoring
  • Totals are shown.
  • Go to Result Entry and give awards as required
  • Use Publish to complete cycle

Remote Judging

Setting up

  • In Manage Collections goto Remote Judging
  • Select the collection to use
  • Assign Judge in Remote Judging
  • When Judge logs on to website a red button is visible to access judging page


Finalising

  • In Manage Collections goto Remote Judging
  • Select each competition and check judge has completed the task
  • Use Publish to complete cycle

Favourite Voting

Setting up

  • In Manage Collections goto Result Entry
  • Finalise all competitions
  • Publish with message that voting is now open

Finalising

  • Nothing to do as tally just continues
Video coming

How to create and edit competition collections...

To edit and existing collection use the Maintenance option

To create a new collection this is done by going to an existing collection and duplicating it then editing the duplicated collection.