Beta Test: Google Docs (not forms) for Overviews of Officiating Skills

Officiating (Public Read-Only)
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Hi Officials,

Certification Oversight is aware that it is a lot of work to fill out Overviews of Officiating Skill (OOSes), and that doing so via Google Forms is quite cumbersome. To this end we have developed a new way of filling out Overviews of Officiating Skill using Google Docs instead.

Google Docs has speech-to-text (so you can record speech directly into the doc), and it is far easier to translate text to or from English. And it is far less likely than a Google Form to get eaten by your web browser.

This is a beta test! If anything goes wrong or awry email certification@wftda.com to ask for help!

How to do it:

  1. Go to this form to request a Google Doc that will be your OOS. It will ask for your info and the capacity in which you are filling out the OOS.
  2. Our automated system will create the OOS document and email it to you at the address you provided in the form.
  3. Then you fill it out - it is full of all of the helpful suggestions on how to review others that we developed earlier this year!
  4. At the very top there’s a message, “INCOMPLETE: Remove this line after you have completed your Overview and it will be automatically submitted. If you alter this line in any way, you may lose access to the document!” – remove that from the document when you are done
  5. The OOS will automatically submit itself within 24 hours (and you will lose access to it!). If you remove this on accident and hit undo it is probably fine unless you’re really unlucky in your timing.

That’s it – the OOS counts the same and is imported into the official’s packet when they are ready.

What the beta test means!
Since this is not yet perfect, we want to be sure you know how things might go wrong. Email us at certification@wftda.com if anything goes wrong:

  1. After filling out the form you should receive the doc via email within five minutes. Email us if it does not.
  2. After you “submit” the form by removing the header, you should lose access within 24 hours. If you still have access 24 hours later, submission didn’t work and the OOS doesn’t yet count! Email us if this happens, and include a link to the doc.
  3. Even after submission happens there’s a chance it might not have worked! Once you lose access to the doc, ask the official if they have received the OOS. They can check this using the “Who Has Evaluated Me?” form. If it has included your OOS, it worked! Email us if it does not, and include a link to the doc.

That’s it! At this point, you have done a full betatest. Thank you for this effort!

And of course, thanks to everyone who contributes to the WFTDA Officials Certification System – people who fill out these forms, alpha testers for this system, as well as the officials who participate in certification!