There are two ways to add referees in assignr.com:
- Import referees from a CSV (Excel) spreadsheet
- Add referees one-at-a-time from the People screen.
To add a referee:
- Click the People screen
- Click Add New Person
Email Addresses
Each account can have multiple email addresses. Any emails sent to an official by Assignr will go to allh email addresses. An email address is not required, but a referee without an email address will not be able to login.
Other Identification (IDs, Grade/Badge Level, and Date of Birth)
These fields can be used to store identification numbers and certification level. Date of Birth can be entered, but will only be displayed as an age or as a masked date of birth (e.g. Jan 15 2001 will be displayed as "XXX XX 2001"). The ID fields must not be used for sensitive or other personally identifiable information (such as Social Security number, Social Insurance Number, or driver's license number). Should you want to collect an official's W9, please use our Financial module to do so.
Privacy
Referees have access to a list of all of the other referees on the site. These checkboxes will allow a referee to hide or show their personal information from other officials. By default, a referee's personal information is not shown, unless the referee explicitly checks the boxes. If a referee checks the Hide Profile from Other Referees checkbox, their name will not appear in the People directory. Other referees will only be able to send them messages when they are assigned to the same game.
Permissions
Your user accounts can have any of the four privileges:
Referee. Referees can view their own assignments,
Assignor. An Assignor has access to view and modify all information in the system.
Observer. An Observer has read-only privileges to all areas of your site. If you have a coach, athletic director, or school administrator that needs to view the information in your system, they should be granted the Observer role. By default, they do not have access to view personal details on your referees, but you can configure this so that they can view public details, or view all details for your referees.
Manager A Manager has read-only privileges to view games and assigned officials. This permission is usually assigned to a coach, athletic director, or other personnel who only need to view the games they are affiliated with. When you check the Is a Manager? checkbox, you can also enter the person's Title / Position so that it is obvious who they are when you view their profile in the system.
Each Manager is assigned one or more age groups, venues, teams, genders, game types, or leagues, which you can assign once you click the Update button.
This feature requires that your organization be on the Elite plan. To upgrade to the Elite plan, you can use the Upgrade page.
Account Owner The account owner has the capability to change the method of payment. This cannot be changed from the Add Person screen, contact assignr.com support to change site ownership.
If you want to grant a referee the assignor privilege, check the Is an Assignor? checkbox. By default, any new users added to the site will be granted the referee privilege.
Assignment Limits
The Max Per Day, Max Per Week, and Max Per Month values can be used to enforce assignment limits for referees. This will ensure that a referee cannot work more than a given number of assignments per day, per week, or per month. By default, assignment limits are not set for a site or for a referee.
A site can be configured with an assignment limit, which will apply to all referees in the site. An individual referee may also have an assignment limit, based on the following rules:
- If a limit is set for a site, but is not set for an individual referee, the site's value will be used.
- If a limit is set for an individual referee, the referee's value will be used, and the site value will be ignored.
- If a limit is not set for the site or the referee, a limit will not be enforced.
Weekly counts are calculated using a calendar week (Sunday-Saturday), and monthly counts are calculated based on a calendar month.
Assignment limits for a site are configured on the Site settings screen.
Sending Credentials
When a new account is created using the New Person page, Assignr will send a new account email immediately if the Send New Account Email Immediately checkbox is checked.
When a new account is created by a spreadsheet import, the official will not automatically receive a new account email.
Once you add someone to the system, you can use the the Send New Account Email link to push out a new account email to an official.
If you have multiple people who have never logged in, you can use the Send New Account Emails... link, which can be found at the top of the People page.
