Contributors

Learn how to mark collaborators as contributors and understand the impact on homepage views and reports.

A contributor is a specific type of collaborator who was directly involved in performing the work described in a record. Marking a collaborator as a contributor helps your organization track who participated in delivering programs and activities.

Mark a Collaborator as a Contributor

1

Add or Edit a Collaborator

On the Collaborators page of a record, click Add Collaborator to add a new collaborator, or click Edit next to an existing collaborator's name.

2

Check the Contributor Checkbox

In the collaborator dialog, check the Contributor checkbox to indicate that this person was directly involved in performing the work.

3

Enter Number of Sessions (if applicable)

In Program Activities, you may enter the No. of Sessions the contributor participated in. This number cannot be higher than the total number of sessions on the activity.

4

Save

Click Save to apply the contributor designation. The collaborator now appears with a contributor indicator in the Collaborators list.

Contributor Impacts

All Organizations (SNAP-Ed and Extension)

When a user is marked as a contributor on a record:

• The Collaborators list displays a contributor designation next to their name.

• The record counts toward the contributor's Completion Status by Module summary on the PEARS homepage.

• The record appears in the contributor's Work in Progress panel on the PEARS homepage (if the record is not yet marked as complete).

Extension Programs Only

In Extension organizations, contributors receive additional functionality:

• Action Plans — When creating an Action Plan Report, the list of action plans the user can choose from includes plans where they are marked as a contributor, in addition to plans they created.

• Performance Reviews — Contributor records appear in the Supporting Data dropdown lists within Performance Reviews, allowing supervisors to reference the user's contributed work.

TIP: Your organization may establish guidance on when to mark someone as a contributor versus a standard collaborator. As a general rule, mark someone as a contributor if they were directly involved in delivering or performing the work, not just reviewing or viewing the record.