Camp Today

Authorized Users

Authorized users are "extended family members" that are added to a family's account in order to have access to your camp's Camp Today media page.

  • Authorized users have a couple of special links they can use for accessing your Camp Today media page -  it's the same URL used for your Parent Dashboard, but instead of ending in  /campers, it ends in /family or in /camptoday.

These are the two links associated with Camp Today: Media that are used for Authorized Users and Extended Family Members:

  1. subdomain.campmanagement.com/family

    • This is the Extended Family login landing page. If you enter this URL with your domain name in place of the "subdomain" portion, this will bring Extended Family to their login page for Camp Today. Here they can access Camp Today after their account has already been created.  

      • The link for Extended Family member account creation is within the email that is automatically sent to them when they are added as a new Extended Family member. You can customize this message if you would like. Please see below for more.

       

  2. subdomain.campmanagement.com/camptoday
    • This URL is for what we call 'Unknown Visitors'. Some camps use Camp Today for marketing purposes and this is a way for perspective families to see Camp Today posts without having an actual login or profile.
    • You can set a password for Unknown Visitors if you would like to restrict who can visit your Camp Today page without an official account. To set this password navigate to Admin> Camp Today> Media: Permissions. 

Please note that Authorized users can only access Camp Today; they can't access any other features on your Parent Dashboard.

Customize The Automatic Extended Family Email

You can customize the automatic email notification than an authorized user receives when they're added to a family's account by navigating to Admin> Camp Today> Authorized Users.

CampSite will automatically populate a new users login credentials after your custom message, so don't worry about adding them here.

Type your message and stylize it as needed, then click to save your changes. This email will be sent when an admin user or when a family member adds a new Extended Family member for a family.

Media: Theme

The Camp Today theme allows you to choose a custom color scheme for your Camp Today Media. The live preview will help you determine which colors will look best.

The Theme can be customized by going to Admin > Camp Today > Media: Theme.

  1. Use the color picker to pick Color 1. Color 1 controls the header and tags on blog posts, as well as the calendar and tags that parents can use to search blog posts.
  2. Use the color picker to pick Color 2. Color 2 controls the text color on the calendar and list of tags.
  3. Click Save changes.
Media: Permissions

Setting Camp Today Media Permissions allows you to control the blog posts users can see.

Camp Today Media Permissions can be controlled by going to Admin > Camp Today > Media: Permissions.

  1. Select whether or not you would like parents to see all blogs. If this is set to "No", parents will only be able to see blogs that include the sessions their campers are enrolled in. If "Yes", parents can see all of your blogs - even if there campers aren't enrolled in any sessions.
  2. Select whether or not you would like staff to see all blogs. If this is set to "No", staff will only be able to see blogs that include the sessions they are hired for.
  3. Select whether or not you would like Authorized Users and Extended Family members to see all blogs. If this is set to "No", they will only be able to see blogs that include the sessions the campers they are associated with are enrolled in.
  4. Allowing Unknown visitors to access Camp Today allows users to access your Camp Today blogs by visiting yourcamp.campmanagement.com/camptoday.
  5. You may choose to require a password for the Unknown visitors page
  6. Enter the password you would like used for Unknown visitor access
  7. Click "Save changes".
Communication: Settings

Manage the Camp Today Communication settings via Admin > Camp Today > Communication: Settings.

Here, you can configure the minimum number of required characters on emails that parents/extended family members write to their campers.

If a family member attempts to send an email that does not meet the minimum requirements, they'll receive an error explaining that their message must be longer in order to send.