hHi my name is Beth Casebolt and I am the UU Leadership Institute web weaver and technical support and today I'm going to show you how to register for an account with our website. Okay so this is the front page of the UU Institute website. This is what it would look like on a computer, if you were on a phone or an iPad it would probably be a little bit smaller and you might have the three little lines in the upper corner, but this is what it looks like on a computer. And you'll notice in the upper right hand corner there's a big red button that says login slash register. If you've not registered for the site before, this is where you want to start. You're going to want to click on that and it's going to open this window asking you to log in on the left or register on the right. So if you don't have an account register click the register button and it's going to open up this screen for you and this is where you're just going to put in the information you want for your account. So you're going to enter your username. Your username can be whatever you want your username to be, it does need to have no spaces in it, the system doesn't particularly like spaces and will actually remove them sometimes if you put one in. So if you put first name space last name it'll smush them together and take the space out. The email address you want tied to the account, password, confirm your password. Do note that usernames once created cannot be changed. We can change your name, we can change your email, we cannot change your username at all. Put in your name, select your region, put in your congregation name. Please write out the congregation name, do not use acronyms do not other than UU, don't use any abbreviations and please include city and state because we have lots of places, lots of All Souls, lots of First Unitarians or Universalists, lots of First Parishes. Put in your city and your state or country if you're from out of the country. You need to agree to the terms of service and the covenant for the site. Both of these are links, you can check those pages if you want to take a closer look at them and once you check that box you then click submit. This will then process through and generate an email that will come to you with a confirmation link in it that you need to click to activate the account. You will not be able to access your account until that email link is clicked. If your email does not arrive within an hour or two, usually it's faster than that, but just in case, first thing I would do is check your spam folder and if it's not in your spam folder it's probably been filtered by the spam filter on your server, which means it's not accessible to you. So you're going to need to reach out to us. If you list uuinstitute.org as one of your safe senders in your safe senders list for your email provider that will help avoid that problem from happening and we highly recommend that people do that. So if you run into that problem and you need to get in touch with us, if you go to the help menu you'll see there's this handy contacts page. So you go to contact. There's three different ways to reach us with this problem. One is to create a help desk ticket, which can also be done from the little headphones down here in the bottom that floats on every single page, you can email us at info@uuinstitute.org or you can fill out this form saying you have a technical issue with your name and email and your comment. Do note that however you reach out to us, we must have the email address that is tied to the account and your name as you put it on the account so that we can find you. We can only search by the information you provide us and if you tell me my name is Susan but the name you put on the account is my congregation dre that's not going to help me find your your account. So you do have to make sure you give us the information we need to access the account. Once we find the account we will confirm it for you and let you know. We do go in and automatically check for those pending accounts about every couple or two to three days but if you're in between the checks this just speeds up the process for you. Once you're done you should come back to the website and this time when you click that login register button you fill in this side, click login and it's going to take you to your account page. Your account page is where you can manage your account, so here you can check your recent orders, you can manage your billing address, you can edit your password, and you can see all the classes you're in, whether or not they're in progress or they're complete. There's a couple other menu items here you might want to look at, there's a couple other pages you might want to take a look at. The my trainings page up here

shows you all your trainings in a nice little box format with the images, that makes it easier to identify. It tells you how complete you are in each one.

You can reach your cart here, so if you're in the midst of shopping and you're moving around from one location to another and you're trying to figure out how do I get back to my cart to check out, this is it right here. You just click on that and it'll take you to your cart so you can check out, making changes. You can always go back and check the covenant right here. And that's how you register for the site if you have questions please make sure you reach out to us and thank you.