Workshop Schedule & Bookings
Online Training Workshops
All online training sessions use Microsoft Teams. If you are not familiar with Microsoft Teams, we would encourage you to watch this video to familiarise yourself with the application. You can check that your system meets the minimum requirements here.
Our training workshops are designed to give SmartyGrants users a practical, interactive, engaging, and affordable understanding of how SmartyGrants works.
The workshops also will help you work your grantmaking process into the SmartyGrants system. We will show you how SmartyGrants can make your job easier, from creating applications forms through to reporting, and everything in between.
We offer 2 different online workshops designed for the beginner as well as the more experienced user. These online workshops are available all year round and are spread over 3 half days to facilitate easy online learning.
Note: we do offer several training options, choose the solution which best suits your needs - see training options for more information.
SmartyStarter: All you need to know to get up and running
Cost: AUD$350 - Online Workshop
Run over 2 half days - both days included in price. Must attend both days.
New to SmartyGrants? Meet others in the same boat, and get all the skills you need to start your online grantmaking.
Spread over 2 half days our introductory workshop will give you a solid grounding in everything SmartyGrants with practical information on how to meet all your administrative needs and make your grantmaking easier. Our aim is to give you all the tools to minimise the administrative burden, to free you up to make a real difference in your communities.
Key Learnings:
Day 1 (4 hour duration)
- What SmartyGrants is and how it is designed to work
- How to create and test forms
- Opening a grant round
- What applications look like from the applicant's and grantmaker's perspective
Day 2 (4 hour duration)
- Assessment processes
- How to manage through the different stages of your process
- Tasks functions
- Decision making and allocation of funds
- Using acquittals/reporting for your applicants' work
- Filtering your applications
- Running default and snapshot reports
SmartyStarter workshop is designed for beginners or less experienced users.
It is offered over 2 half days. Both days are included in the booking
registration and the course cost, and both days must be completed in order to gain a
beginner's understanding of the full capabilities of the SmartyGrants
system.
When registering for SmartyStarter, ensure that you are available for both half days
and that you have a computer with reliable internet service available.
After registration and a week before your session, you will receive an email confirmation from your trainer with instructions on how to log into the session and how to use Microsoft Teams.
These sessions are available all year round.
SmartyPlus: Develop your next-level skills
Cost: AUD$250 - Online Workshop
Take your Smartygrants skills to the next level.
Our intermediate-level SmartyPlus class will build on what you know, with workshops that are ideal for administrators and more experienced users. The half-day course will guide you through how to customise, convert, review and report on your current programs.
You'll also be able to develop what you've learnt from previous programs or grants rounds, and examine what you can do to improve your processes.
We can help you use the SmartyGrants system to its full capacity, explain all the new tools we're working on and share skills in best practice.
Key Learnings:
(4 hour duration)
- Data hygiene - structure and customise Standard Fields, Contact Fields and Choice Lists
- How to use CLASSIE (Classification of Social Sector Initiatives and Entities) to enable systematic classification
- Bring the gender agenda into focus for grantees and grantmakers with our built-in Gender Lens
- How to use Calculated Fields
- Tips and tricks with Standard Fields and forms to review applications/project success
- Better ways to provide feedback to applicants, how to give good news and be constructive
- Build the reports you need using the Customise Report templates for both Word and Excel outputs including: summaries of grant rounds, assessment reports, produce notification letters, and to analyse your grantgiving over time
SmartyPlus caters to the more experienced user and administrator. This workshop is designed to take your SmartyGrants Skills to the next level.
After registration and a week before your session, you will receive an email confirmation from your trainer with instructions on how to log into the session and how to use Microsoft Teams.
When registering for SmartyPlus, ensure that you that you have a computer with reliable internet service available.
These sessions are available all year round.
Workshop Schedule
From 3 April 2023 up to and including 2 October 2023 (daylight savings starts)...
Please find your local session time below for Eastern AM:
- Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane Canberra & Hobart 9:00AM - 1:00PM AEST
- Perth 7:00AM - 11:00AM AWST (we recommend Eastern PM instead)
- Adelaide & Darwin 8:30AM - 12:30PM ACST
- New Zealand 11:00AM - 3:00PM NZST
| SmartyStarter: All you need to know get up and running (Eastern AM) | SmartyPlus: Develop your next-level skills (Eastern AM) |
|---|---|
| Tue 13 & Wed 14 June | Thu 15 June |
| Wed 28 & Thu 29 June | |
| Wed 26 & Thu 27 July | |
| Wed 9 & Thu 10 Aug |
Workshop Schedule
From 3 April 2023 up to and including 2 October 2022 (daylight savings starts)...
Please find your local session time below for Eastern PM:
- Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane Canberra & Hobart 1:00PM - 5:00PM AEST
- Perth 11:00AM - 3:00PM AWST
- Adelaide & Darwin 12:30PM - 4:30PM ACST
- New Zealand 3:00PM - 7:00PM NZST (we recommend Eastern AM instead)
| SmartyStarter: All you need to know get up and running (Eastern PM) | SmartyPlus: Develop your next-level skills (Eastern PM) |
|---|---|
| Tue 11 & Wed 12 July | Thu 13 July |
| Tue 22 & Wed 23 Aug | Thu 24 Aug |
Bookings, cancellations and refunds policy
Where a training invoice has been issued, it must be paid at least 10 business days prior to the date the training is scheduled. Online training bookings are confirmed via email to the primary contact for the booking approximately 3 business days before the scheduled training date (for online training) or approximately 7 business days prior to the date the training is scheduled (for face-to-face training).
Once training is confirmed we start incurring costs. Thus, if you find that you are unable to attend training after a workshop is confirmed:
a) Where a training invoice has been issued, no refund is available.
b) Where a voucher has been redeemed in lieu of payment, the voucher is forfeited.
c) You may nominate someone else from your organisation to attend training in your place.
All on-site training is organised alongside an online training contingency. Should the online training contingency be enacted at our request after a session is confirmed, a refund of the difference between the on-site and online training costs will be provided. Should the online training contingency be enacted at your request after a session is confirmed, a refund for recoverable costs will be provided. Please note, this might exclude accommodation and travel expenses.
Written notification of changes to training bookings, including requests for cancellations and refunds, should be sent to service@smartygrants.com.au.