How to Develop a
New Activity

How to Develop a
Series Posting

How to Work with
Your Current Year's
Postings

Please see: Posting
Forms for access to
the Non-Credit Activity Posting Forms.

Using the IAP Posting Forms for Non-Credit Activities

How to Rollover a Posting from Last Year's IAP

All approved listings from last year's IAP are available for Rollover to the current year. To access the list of rollover candidates and perform the rollover you must be authorized for the sponsoring group.

The current list of sponsoring groups and their authorized representatives is available at: IAP Sponsoring Groups and Authorized Users list. If you have questions, please contact Donna Friedman, IAP Program Administrator, at iap-www@mit.edu.

On your IAP Posting summary page, find the listing you want to rollover:

• Scroll down to the 'Rollover Candidates' listing.
  • If you have more than 20 listings, you need first to select 'Rollover Candidates' on your summary page.
  • If you don't find the listing you are looking for, check that you are still authorized for the sponsoring group. The personal IAP posting summary page show all the authorizations this user has. You will see the detail page for the rollover listing, without the schedule or leaders from last year.
• Select the activity from last year that you wish to rollover.
• You will see the detail page for the rollover listing, without the schedule or leaders from last year.
• Select 'Edit' to rollover this prior-year listing to IAP 2001 and start work on it.
• The edit form will contain the titles, descriptions, prerequisites, enrollment and attendance options from last year's posting.
• Enter the leaders and schedule for the new IAP.
• Proof the listing for other changes you need to make.
• Categories for IAP activities have changed!  
  Make sure the category is appropriate for your listing.
  A list of categories and their description is available at: IAP Activity Categories.
• The rollover occurs when you click on 'Verify and Save Current Form Contents'.
• When you save the new listing, you will again see the Detail page with your changes.
• When you return to your personal Summary page (by clicking on 'Posting Summary' or one of the status code categories), the listing will appear under 'Draft' listing for the current year. It no longer appears on the Rollover Candidate list.

How to Develop a New Activity

How to Develop a Posting for a Series or Repeating Event

A series activity consists of several different sessions, designed such that they can be attended individually. When you specify that a subject or activity is of series type, each individual session is listed in the IAP Guide with its title, leaders, description, and schedule.

A repeating event consists of a single presentation, offered on several occasions. When you specify that an activity is a repeating event, the schedule for each individual session is listed in the IAP Guide.

To specify that your posting is of series or repeating event type:

• On the posting input form:
  • Enter the basic form information including the leaders, description, etc. for the series or repeating event as a whole.
  • Select the series attendance option: 'Participants May Attend Individual Sessions' (Activity) or select the repeating event option: 'Repeating event: Participants welcome at any session.'
  • Enter the schedule for your series or repeating event. Use the most common times and locations when the schedule varies.
• When you initially return to the Detail page (by clicking on 'Verify and Save Current Form Contents'), you will see that each day of your schedule is assigned to a different session.
• Edit the individual sessions by clicking on 'Edit this Session' to go to the 'Activity Session Form' .
  • The session input form allows you to enter the schedule for sessions one at a time. If your posting is for a series activity, you can also enter the title, description, and leaders for each session.
    Note: one session can span more than one day. Each session can meet at different times and in different locations.
  • When you are finished editing one session, edit the next by clicking on 'Save this Session, Start Next' or return to the Detail Page by clicking on 'Save this Session, Return to Detail'.
• Back on the Detail Page, you can choose to remove extraneous sessions or add new sessions.

Special features of series listings and repeating events:

• When you edit the main description for a series listing, you will see the schedule for your listing but not be able to change it. Use the individual session forms to change the schedule.
• If you accidentally specified that your listing is of type 'series or 'repeating event'', you can change the attendance option to the correct one on the main description form. The next time you select the main description form, you will be able to change the schedule there.
• If you accidentally did NOT specify 'series' or 'repeating event' when you meant to, you can change the attendance option on the main edit input form to 'series' type and then use the 'Add new session' option on the Detail page to specify individual sessions.

How to Work with Your Current Year's Postings

 On your IAP summary page:

• Scroll down to your Activity Listings.
  • If you have more than 20 listings, on your IAP summary page,
    you will need first to select a category of IAP status to see.
• Select the activity that you wish to edit.
• You will receive the detail page for the listing.
• The options you have depend upon the status of your listing:
  • If your listing is in 'Draft' status, you can edit, submit, withdraw it.
  • If your listing is submitted but not yet approved, you can only view it.
  • If your listing is 'Approved', you can start work on a new version of it.
    The currently approved version remains in the Guide until the new one is submitted and approved.
• Select 'Edit' to work on your listing.
  • You will receive the Activity Input form filled in with
    all the data from the detail listing so you can change it.
  • Make your changes and proof them.
• Your work is saved only when you click on 'Verify and Save Current Form Contents'.
• When you save the listing, you will return to the Detail page.