Infocouncil: Council Agenda Management Software

Council Agenda Management Software


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Infocouncil is a software package for the creation, publication and storage of electronic agendas and minutes for Local Government.

Developed and marketed by software house Infosphere, Infocouncil has gained widespread acceptance and provides valuable economies of scale to councils.

Infosphere has been a Microsoft Certified Partner since 1998
Infosphere offers a complete money-back guarantee



Build Date 14/02/2011

Infocouncil Training

Reviewing a lesson

This page sets out a standard training plan for a new council implementation of Infocouncil.

Report Writers

This is the first training course that we run. This takes place after successful installation of the software.

The course lasts approximately 1.5 hours. During our first visit, it should be attended by the Governance Administrators and by any other people who are going to be involved in the testing and implementation of Infocouncil.

This course can be repeated on subsequent visits if required. If this is done, it is usually attended by the following employees:

  • Report writers
  • Report approvers
  • Executive assistants

Some councils elect to conduct this course themselves once the key users are familiar enough with the process.

Governance Administrators

This course is run after the Report Writing course on the initial site visit. The course lasts approximately 3 hours and should be attended by the key Governance administration staff. The Report Writing course is a prerequisite.

This course is usually recapped on the second site visit.

Course Outlines

An outline of the topics we cover in these courses is set out in the tables below.


Report Writers

Introduction

The Infocouncil Toolbar

Creating a Report

The Report Toolbar

Saving a Report

Retrieving a Report for Editing

Editing the Report

Entering Attachments

The Authorisation Process

Making a Report Confidential

Cloning a Report

Printing a list of Reports for a Meeting

Updating Outstanding Actions



Governance Administrators

Introduction

The Infocouncil Administrators Screen

Maintenance Functions

Authors

Councillors

Meeting Dates

Creating an Agenda

Creating Agendas

Saving Agendas

Creating Minutes

Creating Attachment Documents

Opening a Saved Business Paper

Taking Minutes

The Minutes Toolbar

The Outline Tool

Inserting Resolutions

Inserting Procedural Motions

Inserting a New Item

Inserting a Division

Block Resolve

Insert Councillors Names

Insert Mover/Seconder

Insert Minute Number

Insert Row Above or Below

Make This Row the Resolution Row

Publishing a Business Paper to the Web

Action Sheets

Produce Action Sheets

Update Action Sheets

Monitoring the Progress of Action Sheets

The Infocouncil Database

Maintain Who will Address a Meeting

Maintain Apologies For a Meeting

System Maintenance

IT Administrators

The session for IT Administrators takes place during the installation of Infocouncil. Prior to this the council will have been issued a copy of the Infocouncil Implementation Plan. This triggers various activities to be carried out by IT in advance and discusses topics that need to be considered by IT.


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