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As a technical/computer person, it is not as easy or quick as you might think to make this change or addition.  My suggestion to get you thru is I would recommed you review which of the currently available roles best fits and assign that one. You should use a regular director role or the publicity coordinator role in the meantime.  


As the director for our vbs, I set up our registration coordinator as a publicity coordinator as this role had the same capabilities to manage the page and vbs, including the checklists.  My administrator knows not to change any of the content I have set up on the site so I have no issue with assigning a 3rd director role for her to do what she needs to do. 


You also can use the pdf files, including the checklists instead of copying them. 

We have used AIG's vbs materials and website for years and the only form we have wanted to copy is the "notes" page to hand out at my meetings. 

This year, I printed labels (with the Time Lab logo and animal of the day) for the children attending vbs and used the name badges for all church staff. This worked great as it differentiates children attending from Staff or younger volunteers; we have 12 and up helping as Staff in the Craft and Games areas. 


The name badges are easy to print if you're using Avery's program. All needed to have done was to "edit one label" and then "flip" the label before typing the names. Once finished, I always save the file as a pdf in case I need to reprint a label. 


I hope this helps... thanks again for all that you guys do and that AIG offers via materials, etc., for us to use to prepare for and to have during VBS.  


Blessings... we are continuing with AIG's VBS next year -- our 8th!

I also seem to have lost the merged Time Lab info with Operation Arctic. Every time I'm logging in, it's asking me to enter all the information, but I haven't done it yet as I'm hopeful it was just a glitch? Are you able to reset and/or bring the information back? Or, should I just start it all again? Rock Valley Bible Church, Loves Park, IL

Our Church has had a Teacher Coordinator Role who oversees all our teachers the last 5 years. I think this would be also beneficial.

Hi again. I can't seem to find where you may have already answered this question. I am trying to upload all the students I had from last year's Operation Arctic into this year's Time Lab Director. Currently, it's only showing some of the team names we had from last year but not any of the student information. I believe you were working on setting this up so we wouldn't have to type in all the previous information. Can you please tell me how this was worked out so I can just upload the 95+ students names from last year?

Quick Question? ~~ can a coordinator make changes to the registration forms and/or team rosters (i.e., team names, grades, registration form, etc.) as I've set them up?  I don't want that to happen and would like them to stay as set up. 

I am unofficially waiting... :-D

Something to consider and is easily done... 


In this day and age, most everyone has email one way or another (family member, etc.), but one can always use a "dummy" email, especially for volunteers, Your church website can always issue that same dummy/general email to the church member(s) who doesn't have one. It's just an email, so it doesn't give any access to church website or emails other than for its use for this type of situation. Once all the registrations have been completed, this email (or emails) are easily and quickly deleted from the inbox.