TERM 2 - CHANGE OF START DATE
Unfortunately we have had to move the start date for Term 2 out by one week.
The new Term 2 dates are now May 12 - July 4
This has been caused by a shortage of Tutors for the first week of the original start date. We are sorry to have had to do this, but it is a good reason why you should volunteer to be a Tutor. It is not hard. You start off as an Assistant Tutor and you will never find yourself overwhelmed as help is always at hand. You can not only help us and your fellow members, but you will find it is enjoyable and you will learn so much more.
SNAP - SeniorNet Administration Program. SNAP is a user-friendly administration database program designed by our own Brian Thomas assisted by the other members of the Hutt City Technical Team.
It has been specifically designed to meet the administration needs of SeniorNet Learning Centres using Microsoft Access. SNAP is the system we have been using at Hutt City for a number of years. It provides for the administration of membership matters, scheduling of courses, allocation of members to courses, it produces reports, including invoices and associated information required by the Federation. One of its main features is that data is entered only once and actions are initiated by clicking buttons.
Short demonstrations of preliminary versions of SNAP have been given at recent Regional Meetings.
As Grant Sidaway said in releasing the details to the Federation Clubs " We are most grateful to SeniorNet Hutt City for the work they have done in creating this system. In particular Brian Thomas and Geoff Honey for the many hours of detailed work they have put into the engineering of SNAP. They needed to customise the system which they had developed for the Hutt City Learning Centre four years ago.
Considerable checking of SNAP’s functions has taken place since December 2007, by Ian Turner and Ray MacDonald using actual data from their Learning Centres. They also put in many hours of effort to ensure SNAP is easy to use and workable. How much does it cost?
A conservative estimate to create SNAP for us by a commercial organisation would be $30,000. In keeping with the spirit of SeniorNet, SeniorNet Hutt City and the authors of SNAP are making the program available to Federation Learning Centres for $5.00 to cover production of the CD and postage. "
