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Development DayThursday 19th November 2015

Welcome• Housekeeping• Refreshments• Agenda for the day – structured so that we cover everything,

but we encourage informal conversation• SportSuite / cPortals Website

Who’s in the room?• Name• CSP / NGB• Role

Team SportSuite

2015 – CSP’s• Aim to create a shared services system that the network of

sport & PA providers could access/update• Launched January 2015• November 2015: 18 SportSuite Clients (incl 1 NGB), 12

cPortals (2 pending).• Send monthly update newsletters to Team SportSuite • Created module user guides and have delivered 10 refresher

webinars since June.

2016 – NGB’s (and CSP’s!)

• More members of Team SportSuite!• Pilot with SnowSport England• Same modules, different terminology • NGB’s likely to want: Core, Newsletters, Activity Finder,

Reports, Widgets, Workforce, Funding and Forms• Less likely: Jobs & A-Z • Ownership of A-Z page including programmes, products,

campaigns and courses.

Want to help?• More members of Team SportSuite = more alignment of work• We have done no formal marketing, all word of mouth• Each license increases the development budget so we can

create new features• Meet someone that’s interested? Please refer them to info

@SportSuite.co.uk

Awareness of National Partners

• Sport England - Mike Diaper• Youth Sport Trust – School Games Team• CSPNetwork – Charlie Crane• scUK – Nicola Beattie & Paul Thompson

CoachMark• New national CoachMark standard• SportSuite does contain the verification methods required for

CoachMark• Level 2, First Aid, Safeguarding, 18 Years, Insurance & DBS • Ability for users to request to be CoachMarked by CSP• Ability for CSP to charge for service• Waiting on new CoachMark logo, and confirmation of type of

safeguarding courses accepted.

Courses• Events 2.0 (to be discussed later) will allow Clients to add

courses from a list of workshops and qualifications in our database.

• CoachMark will have certain qualifications accepted from this list.

• One central list will enable signposting of users to specific courses if their qualifications expire.

• List will be used by SportSuite Events and SportSuite Workforce

Module Developments• 3 Rotations x 35/40mins• Please provide development requests and constructive

suggestions to any problems posed• Please try to think ‘bigger’ than any specific CSP programmes,

think of ‘wider’ developments that can be tailored to suit local needs.

Prioritisation• Please place your gold, silver and bronze stars on EACH

module sheet to highlight your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices for developments.

SportSuite Events 2.0Jon Ferguson, Developer

What is SportSuite Events 2.0?

From family days out to themed campaigns to seminars and training courses, SportSuite Events is your central hub for publicising and managing what’s on.

- Feature rich- User friendly- Communicates with the rest of SportSuite

Headache-free EventsWe want to make it possible to create a fully featured event in minutes, all one a single page…

- Categorise events- Handling one-off or multiple event sessions.- Improved Location- Ticket types- Discounts

A dedicated dashboard…Manage your present, past and future events/orders with a dedicated dashboard…

- Search/Manage events in one place- Approve user-submitted events- View upcoming / unpublished events- Viewing past events

Manage bookings and attendees

Manage your bookings and customise the way you communicate with attendees.

- Express checkout- My Bookings area for users- Invite Attendees- Custom Booking Forms- Custom Booking Emails- Booking Dependents

We Want Your Feedback

Any questions or ideas?

SportSuite SupportJonathan Smith, Project Manager

Anthony Dickens, Developer

Support That WorksAs long term web developers we’ve always maintained some key principals for supporting our software.• No limits• Speed of response• Access to the people that write the software• Friendly service• Real world training sessions

Help Us Help YouThe more information that can be provided when reporting a issue will help us to resolve it quicker - such as:• How did the issue occur?• What did you expect to happen?• Can you reproduce the issue consistently?• Is it happening to anybody else?

It’s all in the details…Specific details such as the following will help us track down the issue better:• Link (Not just a page title, the full URL to the page)• Browser & Version (eg, Chrome, Firefox, IE 9, IE 11, Safari etc.) • Device Type (eg, PC, Mac, Mobile, Tablet)• Screenshot (Fullscreen, including the browser window)• Describe how to reproduce the issue step by step

New Ticket SystemCurrently we ask that you email help@sportsuite.co.uk – whilst this shall remain, we will shortly introduce a ticket system.• Directly access this via your SportSuite Dashboard• Ticket form with fields for all the key information we require• Any member of our team will be able to reply to you• Ability for your colleagues to see your tickets and reply• Ticket history retained for your reference

We Want Your FeedbackWhilst we feel the support ticket system will streamline support requests we still want your feedback on how we can improve.• Ways to improve the SportSuite software itself• Ways we can improve supporting you• Ways we can improve communicating software updates

Potential New ModulesKim Lillie, Innovation & Enterprise Officer

Potential New ModulesSportSuite Fixtures (Website)• Central fixtures system capable of managing School Games,

LSA, CSN, SSA and NGB fixtures for schools in one place• Auto-generates fixtures including semis/finals and invites

winners to higher levels of competition• Manages leagues, pools, CVL’s, and one off events• All M&E centrally collected and downloaded for reporting• Mobile friendly for teachers to complete pitch side

Potential New ModulesSportSuite Images• Shared database of images for marketing use• Pre-populated by SportSuite• Ability to store CSP event images• Ability to share CSP event images with other CSP’s

Potential New ModulesSuitey-Shop• Online e-commerce platform• Ability to add items/products for sale with colour options,

sizes, description, prices etc• Shopping basket for users to select multiple products before

purchase• Online invoice management and sale records

Potential New ModulesSportSuite News• Ability for non-cPortals website users to populate a newsfeed

and pull stories into newsletters.• Ability for users to filter between local, regional and national

news stories published by Team SportSuite members

Potential New ModulesSportSuite Forums• Ability to set up discussion topics for your registered users to

post into• Create open or private topics for particular user groups;

running groups, HoPE / HT, Volunteers etc

Potential New ModulesSportSuite Funding Support• Ability for registered user to post a funding support request

ticket, that your Funding Officer can access.• Track the correspondence of each request, including

attachments and links.• Record the time spent supporting the user and the funds

applied to for reporting

Potential Module Suggestions

• Please can you complete the form provided with your thoughts

• Please can you provide any suggestions for modules that we may have missed.

Summary• Partners• CoachMark• Module Developments• Prioritisation• Events 2.0• Support• New Modules

Thank you

help@sportsuite.co.uk