This article provides information about creating training groups and sessions as well as managing availability and attendance.
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Monitor player availability for a training session date
Mark attendance for a training session
Excuse a player who did not attend a training session
Create a training group
Training groups are great for creating training sessions for multiple teams, for example you may have one training session for all Adult teams.
Step-by-step guide:
- Go to the club control panel
- Click 'Teams' from the left-hand menu
- Click 'Training' from the sub-menu
- Select 'Add sessions' in the top-right corner in green
- Choose 'Create a new group', type in the name of the training group
- Click 'Save and continue'
Once you have created a training group, you can then create sessions within that group.
Create a training session
Step-by-step guide:
- Go to the club control panel
- Click 'Teams' from the left-hand menu
- Click 'Training' from the sub-menu
- Select 'Add sessions' in the top-right corner in green
- Choose 'create a new group' or search for an existing training group
- Next, add sessions to your training group:
- Location - where the training session is going to take place
- Organiser - the person in charge of organising the training session
- Adding teams - the teams taking part in the session
- Date
- Start Time & End Time - what time the training session will start and end
Repeat - If this training session is going to reoccur on a number of occasions after the first training session, enable this option e.g. every week for 10 weeks - Description - what does the training session involve? Will the participants need to bring anything to the training session?
- Click 'Done'
Monitor player availability for a training session date
Step-by-step guide:
- Go to the club control panel
- Click 'Teams' from the left-hand menu
- Click 'Training' from the sub-menu
- Click on the training session (you can use the groups to help narrow down the training sessions you see)
- In the Availability section, see availability statuses for the training session date:
- Available
- Not available
- Not sure
- Not set
You can prompt players for their availability easily in the Pitchero Manager app.
Click here for guidance.
Mark attendance for a training session
Step-by-step guide:
- Go to the club control panel
- Click 'Teams' from the left-hand menu and then click 'Training'
- Click on the training session (you can use the groups to help narrow down the training sessions you see)
- In the Attendance section, toggle the player(s) who attended the session
The total attendance for the session will update automatically.
Excuse a player who did not attend a training session
Step-by-step guide:
- Go to the club control panel
- Click 'Teams' from the left-hand menu and then click 'Training'
- Click on the training session (you can use the groups to help narrow down the training sessions you see)
- In the Attendance section, click on the player's name
- In the side-bar, toggle the player to 'Excused from attending'
- Click 'Save'
Using the side-bar, you can also add a note to the player's attendance for the training session.
Cancel a training session
Step-by-Step guide:
- Go to the club control panel
- Click 'Teams' from the left-hand menu and then click 'Training'
- Click on the training session (you can use the groups to help narrow down the training sessions you see)
- Click 'Cancel session'
- You can then inform your members by clicking 'Yes' to 'Would you like to notify your members that you’ve cancelled this session?'
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