MentorCity Advanced Set Up

Ensure there is always someone available to manage the back end of the platform when the main administrator is busy or away.

Get started now. Create your back up program administrators.

Personalize the e-mentoring platform to look and feel like your program:

• Add your brand colors

• Add or change your logo

• Choose the labels for the name and email address appearing on system generated emails

• Identify your preferred terminology for the role of mentors, mentees, and the action of mentoring

• Define mentors/mentees’ permissions for events, resources, and discussion creation

Get started now. Edit your organization’s profile.

Program policies set the expectations for mentors and mentees on how they must behave on the platform. The MentorCity Privacy policy aim at protecting users. The terms of use are the MentorCity sets of rules of how their product should be use.

Import your program policies and access the MentorCity Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Outlining your mentoring agreement provides clarity for the mentoring match as to how the mentoring relationship should unfold and what are the responsibilities for each party.

By managing profile sections, fields & drop-down menus and competencies, you will optimize your participant profiles to best reflect the content that your mentors and mentees want to see and to suit the needs of your program.

By creating profile custom fields, you will be able to personalize your mentors and mentees’ profiles to suit the needs of your program.

By expanding the language filters, you will be able to keep your mentors and mentees safe from harmful message exchanges.

By customizing the program evaluation, you will be able to capture the feedback that is truly important to you and that will raise the quality of your program.

Creating surveys will provide numbers and opinions which can be used by your program to make important decisions. Surveys can also be used as quizzes in mentoring activities.

Make the e-mentoring platform a hub for your mentoring matches by defining resources' categories and  building the resource center. This will provide useful and key information in Resources such as program FAQ’s, Conversation Guide, Technical Support information and other processes.

Make the e-mentoring platform a hub for your mentoring matches. Add your program curriculums and activities to the e-mentoring platform allowing mentoring matches to do them together during their video calls or individually at their own time.

Get started now. Design courses & mentoring activities.

The optional feature of activating and customizing the badge reward system encourages and motivates mentors and mentees by recognizing their progress in the program.

By managing system generated messages, you can ensure that mentors and mentees do not miss important activities on the platform while preventing them from being spammed with numerous emails. Focus on what is important.

By watching the onboarding video of mentors & mentees, and sharing the short training video, you will learn the different methods to have mentors and mentees’ credential created and ensure program participants are comfortable navigating the platform.

By defining the maximum number of mentors & mentees per math, this ensures that mentors and mentees are in the maximum or minimum number of relationships as established by the program.

Match mentors & mentees using of the one or more of the following methods

• Youth-initiated match

• Speed match

• Manual match

Flexibility in matching methods based on your programs’ needs and size.

Programs offering one mentor to many mentees or many mentors to many mentees experience will benefit from creating group mentoring matches.

Make the e-mentoring platform a hub for your mentoring matches. Host and promote your program events and registrations on the e-mentoring platform.

Get started. Create your events.

Highlight important program communication and changes on mentors and mentees’ dashboard.

Get started. Post announcements.

This optional feature of setting up a discussion board will allow program participants to exchange on topics that are important to them.

By monitoring mentoring matches' progress & interactions, you will be able to measure the success of your program and provide feedback to mentoring matches on progress towards the goals.