Administrate™

Applause™ Administrate™ is a powerful online tool developed by Ridgewood Associates to help you manage real-world training.  With Administrate™, students can create and manage their accounts, learn what, when and where courses are available, register for and drop classes, and view information about providers, guidelines and fees.  In addition, Administrate™ allows you-the administrator-to manage students, providers and instructors, add and schedule courses and classes, and manage your budget.

Contact Ridgewood today, and we'll show you how to simplify your training process with Applause™ Administrate™.

Functionality:

Students can:

• Create, view and update their accounts
• Review course descriptions
• View classes by date, topic, location or training provider
• Register for and cancel classes
• Access information on training providers, fees and registration guidelines

Training providers can:

• Add, update and delete information about courses, classes and instructors

Administrators can:

• Manage students, training providers, instructors, courses and classes
• View customized reports
• Submit trouble tickets regarding system problems

Articulate™

Need to get the word out to a large audience, but don't have the budget or staff to produce a printed newsletter?  With Applause™ Articulate™, you can create professional-looking e-newsletters with a few clicks of the mouse.  Our product lets you select your layout and colors, add your own text, pictures and logo, and e-mail it to whomever you choose.  Applause™ Articulate™ puts the power of communication into your hands.

Functionality:

• Design customized e-Newsletters
• Edit or delete articles and newsletters at any time
• Create online promotions for your newsletters
• Develop your e-mail mailing list
• Manage your newsletter archives
• View reports on newsletter page views

Calculate™

Calculate™, our online media-tracking tool, allows you to uncover valuable market information so you can effectively reach your customers.  Gather demographic information, including gender, race, ethnicity and age.  Discover which ad placements worked and which ones didn't.  Test your message.  Know who you're reaching and where they're seeing you.  With Calculate™, you'll see the difference between simply targeting your customers and hitting the mark.

Functionality:

• Learn which demographics you’re reaching.
• Test your advertising and see what’s working.
• See a relational report of the survey responses.
• Relate up to three different survey questions.
• Compatible with Excel and SPSS.

Communicate™

Exchange ideas with colleagues, get information from experts, notify people about important events, build your knowledge, and strengthen your organization _ all with a single Web-based application.  Applause™ Communicate™ has easy-to-use features that will help you foster connections, whether your colleagues are in the next room or around the globe.

Functionality:

Registered members can:

• View, add, update and delete items in the Library and Resources sections
• Access contact information of colleagues
• Make a request to become a mentor
• Create, participate in and delete forum discussions
• Create, edit and delete discussion groups
• View, add, update and delete calendar events
• Update member information

In addition to the above functons, the Administrator can:

• Manage the News, Library and Members sections
• Respond to email requests from members

Coordinate™

A well-organized calendar often translates into a productive day.  But keeping projects on track or scheduling new projects can be a challenge without one coordinated calendar that your whole team can use.  Applause™ Coordinate™ is a secure, interactive online calendar that will help you and your colleagues keep everyone informed about meetings, events, and appointment (and even vacations).  Say "good-bye" to that desk calendar forever!

Functionality:

System users can:

• View calendar by day, week, month or year
• View event details
• Add events to their personal, public or group calendar
• Edit and delete events that they have posted
• Sort events by date, time or group affiliation
• Determine who has access to their calendar
• Choose to receive event notifications via e-mail
• Download and print reports of events

The Administrator can:

• Add, edit and delete system users
• Add, edit and delete groups based on user requests

Educate™

Use Educate™ to provide customized, self-paced e-Learning opportunities with this easy-to-use product.  Wherever they are, your students or staff can register for training, access course information, take quizzes, and ask tquestions in an online forum.  Your current curricula can be easily translated into an effective, online learning experience.  It’s a different way to teach. It’s a different way to learn.

Functionality:

Students can:

• Register for online courses
• View training information from any computer with internet access

Administrators can:

• Create online courses
• Create quizzes to test effectiveness of online training
• View student progress and course completion
• Designate mandatory training for students

Evaluate™

Want to know what they're thinking?  Our Applause™ online survey tool is the answer.  Post your survey on your server or on ours, then collect your data report in a click.  If you need assistance developing your survey or analyzing your responses, we can help you there, too.

Functionality:

• Create surveys using a variety of question types
• Edit and delete existing surveys
• View the raw data generated from your surveys
• Run conditional queries on your data
• Download your data into an excel spreadsheet

Orchestrate™

Take conference management to a higher level with a user-friendly Web tool that includes online registration, presenter and participant management, and a customized database administration system with "real-time" activity.  Oversee registration and seating arrangements, track donations and ticket purchases, and know exactly what audiovisual equipment your keynote speakers, panelists or entertainers will need.  Whether your event is for 50 or 500, let Applause™ Orchestrate™ be the assistant you wish you had hired.

Functionality:

Participants can:

• View the event description, agenda and session descriptions online
• Submit a Call for Papers application
• Submit an application to be an exhibitor
• Register for the event through an online form, which can be open to the public, or password-protected

Presenters can:

• Have access to an online handbook, which contains important information about presenting at your event
• View and update their contact information
• Request audio-visual equipment, meal type and lodging

Through a Committee Console, a Steering Committee can:

• View and print responses to the Call for Papers
• Score workshops
• View real-time scoring results from other committee members

Through the Presenters Console, the Administrator can:

• Add, edit and delete presenters
• Manage audio-visual, meal and lodging requests
• Edit workshop, keynote and plenary titles and descriptions
• Assign workshops to specific dates, times and locations
• Designate workshops that will require pre-registration and set the number of seats available
• Manage exhibitors

Through the Participant Console, the Administrator can:

• Add, edit and delete participants
• Manage meal and lodging requests
• Assign codes for password-protected registration
• Enter and track registration fees