Course: Working with the Optivote Council Chamber System (Ref: CHAM)

Objectives To give the facilitator a full understanding of the Optivote Council chamber system.

Prerequisites The course works best with up to six participants. Optivote council Chamber software installed on each participants laptop or PC.

Duration Each session will last about 2.5 hours with a 15 minute break.

Course Content 1.   Overview of the Optivote Council Chamber system 2.   How Optivote works with your IT systems 3.   Creating User Profiles 4.   Setting up the hardware 5.   Registration 6.   Using the Start Up Wizard 7.   How to create or import councillor lists 8.   How to build meeting motions 9.   How to deliver sessions with amendments and casting votes 10.   Generating reports and exporting to other applications

Outcome The participants will be fully conversant with all aspects of the Optivote Council Chamber system and capable of creating meeting content, councillor lists and delivering the session with full reporting post meeting.