Welcome to FCCLA Mass Affiliation‐ Directions for Registering Many Members at One time Hello FCCLA Advisor, Are you affiliating many students at one time, perhaps an entire school? These directions are for you. STEP ONE Locating the Template The most important step is for you to talk to your school’s data clerk. Download and give the clerk the digital FCCLA Excel template. Ask her to fill in the information exactly as labeled for all the students you want to affiliate. Keeping the headings in the exact spot is necessary. To access the FCCLA Excel template follow the below directions: A. Log into http://www.fcclainc.org/ B. Click Membership> Join FCCLA C. Click the FCCLA Member Excel Template link in the middle of the page> SAVE AS (Save the document in your computer.) D. Send the Excel document to your clerk so she can fill in the student information. 1 STEP TWO Preparing the FCCLA Membership Excel Template for Mass Affiliation Once the clerk sends back the completed form you will have to make some changes before you affiliate. Follow the color highlights below. The yellow highlight shows a group change. The aqua highlight will require a filter before you make a group change. The filter groups the information in the column based on your input. Yellow Highlight Changes Prefix: n/a Suffix: n/a Individual Affiliation Type: Comprehensive Student Type: Chapter member Cell Phone: place your cell phone number for all student members in this column Home Phone: place your school’s phone number for all student members in this column Blue: Highlight Changes Gender: male or female Demographic: comprehensive The aqua highlight headings will require a filter before you make a group change. To access the filter, click in the top menu. By clicking the filter you are changing the word ordercolumn. A. Click on the down arrow in the column heading. Check the selection you want filtered into a group. B. You can now quickly change the gender, affiliation type, member title, cell phone, and Date of Birth by clicking the cell and dragging down the column. 2 Oh Boy!!! It’s time to submit the Excel Membership Spreadsheet to FCCLA. STEP THREE Affiliating your chapter 1. Log‐in to affiliate by following step 1 above. Click affiliate online. 2. Enter your chapter info 3. Click on the add chapter member tab 4. Open your membership information from your computer. 5. Copy your Excel membership information from your computer file into the Excel document located on the affiliation page. Be sure to place your cursor in the first cell under Prefix and row 1 when pasting the information. Paste your membership 50 members at a time and save your work each time you paste info. 3 6. Delete the first line in the newly filled Excel document. This action removes the duplicated headings. If you do not do this step the member information will not load properly. 7. Click save 8. Congratulations! You have just affiliated all your students. 4