In addition to scheduled events, many organizations ask their volunteers to perform tasks on their own time. The best way to structure these is by using the "Flexible Timing & Location" template to create Opportunities that ask volunteers to report back directly to you on the work they've completed.
However, using the Dashboard, you can also manually update a volunteer's actions on their behalf (you'll need to create the Opportunity first, of course!).
Here are the steps:
- Navigate to the Opportunities tab and open the "My Opportunities" sub-tab, then select the Opportunity for which you want to add a volunteer's hours.
- Use the Log Completed Hours button and select the participant(s) you are awarding hours for.
- Note that you can also use the CSV upload feature to log completed hours.
- Select the date & time that the completed hours were fulfilled (unique to Ongoing Opportunity types, since there are no timeslots).
- Select the number of hours you are awarding and click the Log Completions button to award hours manually to your volunteers!
