Website Instructions for Sports and Society Committees

Basic Website Instructions How to register for the website Go to www.rusu.co.uk click on the Register button in the top right hand corner.

Fill in your details once finished you will get a confirmation email

Check your email once you’ve registered (also check your autospam) and click on the confirm request link

How to use the website You can email all of your members and edit the information on your webpage including uploading photos, create events and add news items.

Once registered go back to www.rusu.co.uk click on the login button in the top right hand corner and fill in your details.

Once you have logged in go back to the top right hand corner of the screen and click on admin then click on organisations

This will then take you to your page for members click on groups, click on edit details to change your webpage and click on the message button to email your members.

Admin Screen

Editing your webpage After you have clicked on Edit details on the admin screen If you have a logo you upload this onto your webpage

If you have an external website or Facebook page you can enter this into the web address box

The description is the section where you brag about your club and why it is the best in Reading and every other university

Creating a mailing list After you have clicked on Groups on the admin screen

Simply enter the name of the list and go to the type section and click on list under the ‘Create new group’ heading.

You can have several lists including Committee members, freshers’, 1st team etc.

Then click create.

Creating a mailing list After you have clicked on Messages on the admin screen Click on Send email, click on To and then click on the list you require and click on add recipents

Creating a committee position After you have clicked on Groups on the admin screen

Follow the same process as creating a mailing list, but when selecting the ‘type’, choose ‘Role’ and ‘Committee Membership’ under category.

Then click create

You should now have a new membership in your Group list. In this case we’ve called it Admin but you could name it Vice President etc etc.

Click on it to add one of your members to this Committee Membership.

As long as the member appears in your membership list you will be able to select them.

Scroll down to the bottom of your membership list and click ‘Add Members’ This will then give that person the same admin rights as you have. They can then login and complete the same functions as above.

Good luck and any problems just let us know.

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Viewing your members Once again from the admin screen click on the ‘members’ icon. This will show you all your members in one long list as below.

To see a more detailed breakdown, click on the ‘List members by group’ option.

This will show you smaller lists in the order of: Standard Members (Students that have paid/joined) Associate Members (Non students that have paid/joined) Committee members All members

Creating events From the admin screen, click on ‘events’ and then click ‘add new event’ From here it’s fairly self-explanatory.

But just in case, fill the name, date and time of your event, then select your activity group from the event type checklist.

Further down this page you can also select an image for the event and provide a more detailed description.

Remember to save the event at the very bottom of the page.

Creating News items You’ve guessed it. From the admin screen click on News, then ‘add new article’ to get to the page shown on the left.

Fill in all the details required and then click save.

Hey presto, you’ve figured out how to use the website 