Advanced Set Up Advanced Start The advanced set-up offers extensive customizations, providing mentors and mentees with an enriched mentoring experience through a wide array of features. With advanced customizations, program administrators gain the ability to personalize profile fields and sections for mentors and mentees. Additionally, they can offer various resources, mentoring activities, discussions, events, and announcements, while also enabling the valuable option of group mentoring. To explore the process of implementing these advanced customizations, we've outlined the essential steps in the topic training article linked below each section. These step-by-step guides will assist you in tailoring the platform to meet your program's specific needs, ensuring a highly personalized and effective mentoring journey for all participants. Steps: 1. Create your back-up program administrators 2. Edit your organization’s profile: Add your brand colors Add or change your logo Choose the labels for the name and email address appearing on system generated emails Identify your preferred terminology for the role of mentors, mentees and the action of mentoring Define mentors/mentees’ permissions for events, resources, and discussion creation 3. Determine and add your program policies and the Mentor City terms of use to the company policy tab 4. Build the mentoring agreement 5. Manage profile sections, fields & drop-down menus and competencies 6. Create profile custom fields (if applicable) 7. Set up your message filters 8. Customize the program evaluation 9. Create and send surveys 10. Define resources' categories and build the resource center 11. Design courses & mentoring activities 12. Activate & customize the badge reward system 13. Manage system generated messages 14. Onboard mentors & mentees and share all or part of the below onboarding supports: The Mentors & Mentees Onboarding Essentials article The Mentors & Mentees Onboarding Essentials handout 15. Define the maximum number of mentors & mentees per match 16. Match mentors & mentees using of the one or more of the following methods: Youth-initiated match Speed match Manual match 17. Create group mentoring matches 18. Post announcements on the dashboard 19. Monitor mentoring matches' progress & interactions through reports. If you have questions or need further support, please contact our Support Team: support@mentoringcanada.ca