A Qualification is another way for you to store additional information about your volunteers or add to your application form to gather more information about your prospective volunteers. Generally, a Qualification is information that enables you to control which volunteers can see a particular Activity and whether or not they can self-schedule in the Activity. Any training or orientation that you provide a volunteer is typically recorded as a Qualification. You can also include things like skills, certification or age.
1. Go to: Configuration >> Qualifications.
2. Click on the button to the left of the Qualification header.
3. Enter a name for your qualification.
4. Set the permissions to “read/write with approval” (this means that volunteers can enter information, but an administrator will need to approve it).
5. 5. Check the boxes in the display columns next to MyImpactPage and Volunteer 1. Checking the MyImpactPage box means that volunteers will be able to view and update this information in their volunteer profile on MyImpactPage at a later date. Checking the “Volunteer 1” box places this field on your application form 1.
6. Next select the Qualification type – there are 2 options here. If you only have one item to appear in the list or if the order of items in the list is not important, create an "Exact Match" qualification. If the order of the items is important, such as a list of skill levels or some other sequential list, then create a "Ranked" qualification.
7. Check the box if the qualification has an expiry date.
8. Add your items. These are the options can be selected related to your qualification. It might be as simple as “Yes”, “Passed” or “Completed” (these are examples of exact matches). Alternatively, you may add several items to distinguish levels or progress for example “beginner, intermediate or advanced” (these are examples of ranked qualifications).
button to the left of the Qualification header.
