Accessing the Admin Dashboard
As you work with a PBC Guru Onboarding Specialist to get your program started, you will gain access to the Admin Dashboard. You can expect to gain access after finalizing your sign-up page, forum, and launch dates. Note that you will need to register and create an account for the book club program before we can grant you access, which we’ll remind you to do during onboarding. Once you’ve been granted access. you’ll receive an automated email with instructions on how to log into the Admin Dashboard. Watch the video below for an introductory tour. You can also follow written instructions on how to access and utilize the dashboard below the video.
Written directions for accessing your admin dashboard:
- Navigate to pbc.guru/admin
- Log in using the username and password you used when creating your account
After the homepage loads, you should see the following:
The homepage displays your Current Reading Period’s Reading Schedule and a Reading History, ordered chronologically by default, that displays previous reading period start and end dates, voting options, and confirmed selections. Despite its name, the Reading History section is not just for the past. When your Book Club Operations Manager shares voting options for future reading periods, the future reading period dates and voting options will appear at the bottom of your Reading History. If you have more than ten reading periods, you can either:
- Use the “next” button to move to the next page
- Use the sorting option to organize your reading periods such that they are in reverse chronological order. This will place your newest reading period first.
For questions about voting options and book selection, see Determining Your First Book Club Selections for more information, including specific guides and overviews.
Navigating the Admin Dashboard
In the upper-left-hand corner of your home page, the Admin Dashboard includes five tabs, which we’ll walk through below:
- Reading Period Analytics
- Author Talk Analytics
- Participants
- Sign-Up Page
- Online Forum
1. READING PERIOD ANALYTICS
Under the Dashboard’s Reading Period Analytics tab, you’ll find “big picture” numbers and information that tackle a broader perspective of how your members are engaging with the book club.
As you can see in the image above, the report contains, for each completed book:
- Reading period dates
- Confirmed book selection
- Number of participants opting in to receive emails for the reading period
- An email open rate that is an aggregate for the entire reading period
- Links to the Forum Analytics Panel to see the number of posts, page views, and user visits for individual reading periods
You can export the Reading Period Analytics Report as a CSV or PDF.
2. AUTHOR TALK ANALYTICS
Once your book club members are invited to their first Author Talk, you will be able to track registration data in real-time. The Author Talk Analytics page is a way for you to see who registers for an event and who attends.
Like the Reading Period Analytics report, you can also download the Author Talk Analytics as a CSV or PDF file. For this report, you can also export the data as an Excel file.
The information collected during registration and reflected here is straightforward, but we will draw your attention to the final column, “Watched”. This is the column that allows you to see who watched or attended the Author Talk. Some members will tune in to the original live stream while others will view the recorded talk afterward. This column will either have a “0” denoting that the user registered for the event but did not attend (yet) or a “1” indicating they accessed the live stream or the recording.
3. Participants
The participant list contains all information that users provided when they created their book club account. Like the Author Talk Analytics, you can export this report as a CSV, PDF, or Excel file.
Sample Participant Report
4. Sign-Up Page and Online Forum
The last two tabs are hyperlinks to your book club’s sign-up page and online forum.