STEP ONE: Setup Event
Create Your Event
When you first log in to yourpickAtime, accountyou'll from the pickAtime home page, you will beland in the Admin tool and on the Event Reports page.
Steps to Create a New Event
- Select Events/Preview from the
Events/Previewbutton on the pickAdminUI sidebar (left side).sidebar. - Click
onthe green Add button. - Enter
ina name for yourevent,eventfor—example,e.g.,"Fall 2026Conferences.Conferences." Select type ofSimplePTA
Once saved, your event will appear as a new row in the Events list.
About the Date and Location for your event.
Fields
YouThese willfields thenare see a row listed for your event. The dateoptional and location column can be left blank. They areprimarily used to differentiatedistinguish thebetween differentmultiple events when more than one event is available.listed.
ForYou do not need to create a separate event for each date — a single event can include any event,number youof candates.
also
Adding Event Details
Use the Event Details box on the screen to fill in anyadd event-specific information thatyou'd you may wantlike to usedisplay inon the display of your scheduler or in your emails for this event. Any text that you addinclude in theemails.
Anything Detailsentered boxhere will bebecomes available as a macromacro: field$(E_DESCRIPTION)
You can useinsert this macro into your CUI Messages or Notification Setup templates to automatically pull in yourthis CUItext.
Removing ina your Notification Setup. The macro for thePrevious Event Details is $(E_DESCRIPTION).
If you've used the systempickAtime before and you will beare importing new data, you can now delete theyour previous event(s). Toonce deletethe annew one is created.
you have createdCreating the new event
willbeforeallowdeleting the old one lets youtouseyourthe previousconferenceevent as atemplatetemplate.forBeyoursurenew conference event. Please alsoto confirmthatyour new event isofset to type SimplePTA.PTA.
If
Deleting multipleYour dates for your Parent‐Teacher Conferences, you do not need to create multiple events. Any event can have any number of dates on it.Contacts
Deleting your Contacts
To remove all contacts (parents, teachers,parents and students)teachers from your account,account:
Use this
button will bring up a pull‐down where you will have theoptionof deleting your contacts by administrative access level. You would use this buttonifyou wouldyou'd like toremoveclearallout previous parent login informationfrombeforeyouraparents.newNote,event.that
What's willpreserved: