Home Teaching/ Visiting Teaching Organizer
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 1:01 pm
I am currently serving in an Elder Quorum Presidency and one of the most time consuming we have to do is Home Teaching assignments. To be perfectly honestly we are doing it mostly through google docs to keep track of Companionships and District Leaders.
We do end up putting it in MLS but only once we have worked out the assignments.
Right now I am working on a drag and drop application to make the organizing a lot easier. The program ideally would be usable so the assignments could be uploaded to MLS.
It is similar to the idea how many mission presidents uses magnets to make assignments because it easier to keep track of them that way. In fact, it could be made to do home teaching, visiting teaching, missionary companionships or even general callings within a ward.
Rather than having to write down the names, double checking to make sure each family has one and only one home teaching you could avoid that. Each hometeacher/family would have one icon that you would drag around as needed. You would easily be able to check who hadn't been assigned.
My questions are the following-
How useful would this be?/Would the church be interested in using it?
What problems could you foresee in it's creation?
Would it be more helpful as a application used on a computer or a web app?
Is something like this already being made?
I attached just a screen shot of the rough draft. If you look at the picture the idea would be to drag the buttons from the right to the left in "droppable" areas.
Give me some feedback please! Respond here on the forum or email me at danny.c.king@gmail.com with any questions, Thanks!
We do end up putting it in MLS but only once we have worked out the assignments.
Right now I am working on a drag and drop application to make the organizing a lot easier. The program ideally would be usable so the assignments could be uploaded to MLS.
It is similar to the idea how many mission presidents uses magnets to make assignments because it easier to keep track of them that way. In fact, it could be made to do home teaching, visiting teaching, missionary companionships or even general callings within a ward.
Rather than having to write down the names, double checking to make sure each family has one and only one home teaching you could avoid that. Each hometeacher/family would have one icon that you would drag around as needed. You would easily be able to check who hadn't been assigned.
My questions are the following-
How useful would this be?/Would the church be interested in using it?
What problems could you foresee in it's creation?
Would it be more helpful as a application used on a computer or a web app?
Is something like this already being made?
I attached just a screen shot of the rough draft. If you look at the picture the idea would be to drag the buttons from the right to the left in "droppable" areas.
Give me some feedback please! Respond here on the forum or email me at danny.c.king@gmail.com with any questions, Thanks!