Email verification notice

Yesterday we released a new feature that helps Qlubb administers see whether or not their members have verified their emails.  Remember to send emails to the Qlubb you must first confirm the email.

On the Members tab, members who have verified will have a green "Email verified" under the member's name.


If the member has not verified his/her email, it will display a "Email not verified" in red


We hope you like this feature and hold on tight there are more features soon.

Back to School - with New Features

Hi everyone!

It's August and it's back-to-school.  We've been busy this summer rev-ving up the site and we have a lot more to add!  But for now, as you get your PTAs and classrooms ready for another year of volunteers, events, parties, fundraisers, Qlubb has some new features that we hope will make it even easier (as if that were even possible!)

- Printable 30-day calendar.  Yes, we have this now!  Just go to either the Calendar tab or the 30-day view, and click on the "PRINT THIS MONTH" link and print out the month calendar.

- We also fixed the pesky problem of HTML emails formatting funny.  So now all you Outlook email users won't have to deal with all the funny garbled text.

- For you Enterprise users (if you are managing a whole school with many classrooms, Enterprise is the choice for you (upgrade in your admin screen), we are giving you now the ability to send an email to everyone in your Qlubb Enterprise network - that means from the "mothership" you can send emails to all the members in all the sub-Qlubbs with one click!  Yes, it is now that easy to talk to everyone! This can be found in the Messages tab.

The button on the left sends it to just the mothership, the button on the right sends it to all the sub-Qlubbs (classroom) attached to the mothership (PTA)

That's all for now, but there will be more coming in the pipeline so stayed tuned and keep Qlubb-in!

Teacher Appreciation Week (May 2- May 6): Thanking All the Mrs. Gimmeys

I vividly remember Mrs. Gimmey from 1^st grade. Tall, smart, kind.  But, man, did she know how to control 18 six year olds. She new “everything” about the Bill of Rights and could read a mean James and the Giant Peach with ALL the various bug voices. I was a new student transferring into a new school mid-year and she was the calming and reassuring presence I needed to feel comfortable and excited about this new environment. 

On the week of May 2, we will be celebrating our children’s “Mrs. Gimmey”s – all the teachers who inspire, comfort and educate us. Regardless of where you stand on the private vs. public vs. charter debate, at the end of the day, we, as parents, are trusting our children’s formative years to these influential professionals.

So whether your school is organizing a big luncheon (as many of you are on Qlubb), a teacher's breakfast or just writing a homemade thank you card, remember your teachers on this Teacher Appreciation Week.

Share your teacher appreciation stories in the comment section below – we’ll pick a few to send out in our next newsletter.

Need help on how to organize Teacher Appreciation Week events, check out some sample sign-up sheets, reminders, events on our demo Qlubb http://smith.qlubb.com.

Check out our Teacher Appreciation Week

• Breakfast  http://smith.qlubb.com/events/165604
• Luncheon: http://smith.qlubb.com/events/165606
• Student Flower Bouquets http://smith.qlubb.com/events/165605

 

New feature: ability to add comments to task volunteers

Happy New Year! Now that the holidays are over we are back organizing Spring events (e.g., galas, carnivals, teacher appreciation, Chinese New Year, Easter,...).  Things look busier than ever.

Today we released a new feature that allows task volunteers to add a short (20-character) note alongside their name/email.

To enable this capability, simply click on the "Allow volunteer comment" box when you create a task.  This will enable volunteers to add their own comment to the side of their name.

The comment field is limited to 20 characters which is enough for a phone number, a dish name, an allergy, etc..  The comments will also appear on the printed report.

We hope you enjoy this new feature.  Let us know what you think.

Holiday Upgrades!

In this season of giving, we released new functionality this morning that we hope will make your holidays and new year more organized!

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1) Ability to automatically change your Qlubb name.
Spelled the Qlubb name wrong?  Need to change the name to reflect a change in members?  Now you can rename it automatically via the ADMIN tab.  Super simple.

The very first field on the ADMIN tab is the Qlubb name.  To change the name, simple type in the name you want in the field and press the Update button at the bottom of that section).

Once you have changed the name, Qlubb will kick you out of your Qlubb and bring you to the www.qlubb.com page with a message confirming of the change.  Qlubb will send you an email notifying you of the change.

You can then just simply go to the new URL  http://newqlubbname.qlubb.com.  The password remains the same.

Please note that by changing the Qlubb name, you have changed two things: 1) the URL (http://newqlubbname.qlubb.com) and 2) the email list is now newqlubbname@qlubb.com.  But everything else is the same (password, data, events, etc.)

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2) Qlubb Footer added to every email

At the bottom of every email sent to your Qlubb (for example qlubbname@qlubb.com) will be a footer with your Qlubbname and the ability to unsubscribe.  We hope this will 1) encourage folks to go to your Qlubb to see what is going on and how to help and 2) make it easier for folks who don't want to receive your group email.

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3) Linking Homepage Image to URL
At the top of your Qlubb home page, your logo is now linkable to another URL.  That means that when the user clicks on the image, it will open up a new window with the destination URL.  To set this up, go to the ADMIN tab and fill in the "link logo image to URL:" - by default it will go to your main Qlubb home page.  Again, please remember to click on the "update" button.

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4) Re-assigning photos to different albums/events

Now photos can be reorganized into different albums/events. Go to the specific photo page and you will see a new pull-down menu with all the Qlubbs events.  To move the photo to a different album/event just simple pick the target event.  That's it.

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5) Long Sign-Up Sheets
In the past, we split up long sign-up sheets into multiple pages.  However, many of you discovered that people did not navigate beyond the first page and so we now have removed the pagination.  Long sign-up sheets are now just that, long but all on the same page.

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6) Automatic Qlubb Deactivation

If for any reason you need to deactivate your Qlubb, you can now do it by yourself via the ADMIN tab.

Simply click on the deactivate button, share with us some brief feedback and SUBMIT.  You will be then logged out of your Qlubb and an email will be sent to you confirming of your deactivation.  Once you deactivate your Qlubb, you will no longer have access to the data, the email list, the calendar, etc..  So please make sure you want to do this!

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7) Photo rotation

Now you can rotate your photos!  Click on the icon next to the photo label.  Each time you click on it, the image will rotate clockwise 90 degrees.




There are more updates on the way... but for now Happy Holidays.

Some Qlubbs users received duplicate messages...

We noticed that some Qlubb email users were receiving duplicate messages.  We are looking into this problem now  - so our apologies for the duplicates.

New Features

We recently pushed out some new features into Qlubb. Here are some of the details of the new features.
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(All Qlubbs)DRAFT events are now visible to both the event creator AND the admin. This will make it easier easier for event coordinators and administrators to work together to organize events.

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(Enterprise Qlubbs)Motherships can now share their events with selected sub-Qlubbs. In the past, when a mothership creates an event, it automatically gets published to all the sub-Qlubbs. Now, with this new ability to select specific sub-Qlubbs for sharing, when a Mothership Qlubb event is created, the Mothership needs to do an additional step of SHARING it. After creating the new event, you need to press SHARE to publish it to sub-Qlubbs.   You can choose whether 1) share it to all the sub-Qlubbs or 2) share it to selective sub-Qlubbs.

As before, once it is shared, the mothership event will automatically appear in the designated sub-Qlubbs (without admin approval).