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How to add or change a practice in the TeamSideline app (coaches and team staff)

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Team staff add a practice in the TeamSideline app from the team's Events page with the plus icon, or on the web Team Site with Add Event. A practice you add shows only on your team site, in the app and on the web; it doesn't change your league's schedule, and TeamSideline doesn't email the team about it.

Applies to: Team staff (Coach, Assistant Coach, Manager, Team Parent and Site Coordinator) · All plans · Team sites, in the TeamSideline app and on the web

Where: TeamSideline app: your team > Events > plus icon. Web: TeamSideline.com > Teams > your team > Events > Add Event

Add a practice in the app

  1. Open the TeamSideline app and choose your team.
  2. Go to Events and tap the plus icon (+).
  3. Choose Practice as the type and give it a name, such as Practice.
  4. Choose a location you've saved, or type a new one. To keep a new location for next time, turn on Save to your locations?
  5. Under Date, choose Specific Date for one practice. For a weekly practice, choose Recurring Dates, set the first and last dates, and tap each weekday it happens.
  6. Under Time, set the start time, or choose All Day or TBD. You can also set how early players should arrive.
  7. Optional: turn on Send Reminder Email? and choose how many days before (0 is the same day), and Enable Attendance? to ask the team who's coming.
  8. Tap Add.

What you'll see: the practice in your team's Events list and calendar, in the app and on the web Team Site. A recurring practice is added as a separate event for each date. The Events list shows upcoming events; choose All Events to see past ones too.

Add a practice on the web Team Site

  1. On a computer, sign in at TeamSideline.com, click Teams and choose your team. You can also sign in on your organization's website and open your team site from there.
  2. Click Events, then Add Event.
  3. Enter the Event Name or Opponent (up to 50 characters) and choose Practice as the Type.
  4. Under Event Date, choose One time event and a date, or Recurring event with a start date, an end date and the days (Mon to Sun).
  5. Under Event Time, choose Pick time and set the time and Duration, or choose All Day or TBD. Meet Time sets how early to arrive.
  6. Optional: under Reminder, check Yes, send email reminder and choose the days before the event; under Poll, check Enable attendance tracking.
  7. Choose one of Your Locations, or enter a Location Name and its address.
  8. Click Save, or Save & Add to add another. You'll see "Event added."

Change a practice

  • A practice your team added: open it, change the date, time, location or anything else, and save. Each date is its own event, so changing one date doesn't change the rest of a recurring series, and an existing practice can't be made recurring.
  • A practice your league assigned (marked "League assigned practice" on the web Team Site): you can change only the meet time, the reminder, attendance and staff notes. The date, time and location come from your league's practice schedule, so ask your league administrator to change them. If your league lets coaches change league practices, use Practice Changes on your organization's website (see How to add a Practice Schedule as a Coach).
  • To delete a practice, see How to cancel or delete a practice (one date or the whole series).

Who sees it, and who's told

  • A practice you add stays on your team site. It isn't added to your league's practice schedule or website, and it isn't in your organization's Games/Practices/Reservation Information report.
  • Adding or changing an event doesn't email the team. Post in your team chat, or send a message from your team site, so families know.
  • If the reminder is on, roster members get one reminder email before the practice: the chosen number of days before its start time, or the morning of the practice for 0. Members who hid the team or turned off Receive Reminders in their profile don't get it.
  • A reminder is sent once. If you move a practice after its reminder went out, no new reminder is sent, so tell the team.

If it doesn't work

  • There's no plus icon or Add Event button. Only team staff can add events, and only while the team's season is active. Ask your league administrator to add you to the roster as Coach, Assistant Coach or Manager.
  • The team isn't in your app. The app doesn't show a team where your only role is League Administrator, which is how admins are added when they open a team site from the admin site. Use the web Team Site, or ask to be added to the roster in a staff role.
  • You can't change a practice's date or time. It's a league-assigned practice. Ask your league administrator.
  • "A Location selection or Location Name is required." Choose a saved location or type a Location Name.
  • "At least one day must be checked for a recurring event." Check at least one day.
  • "End Date must be after start date." The recurring event's end date is before its start date.
  • "A valid Event Time is required." You chose Pick time without a time. Pick one, or choose All Day or TBD.

Good to know

  • Your organization sets the default reminder and attendance poll for league games and league practices on its team sites. Staff can change them for each event.
  • Coaches of a team the league doesn't manage (a standalone team site created in the app or on TeamSideline.com) add practices the same way.

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