You are one of three counselors trying this before the rest of the department sees it. About ten minutes to get going, and the point is to find what is wrong with it.
The same five questions, with ASCA's definitions and the activities people commonly confuse.
Click Sign in with Google and choose your @valverde.edu account. That is the only sign-in.
The first time only, it asks which counselor you are. Pick yourself from the alphabetical list. This connects your log to your name, so it is always yours.
In the right-hand column, set the hours you actually work and which days. It starts at 8:00–4:00, Monday to Friday, in 30-minute blocks. Change the increment to whatever matches how you think about your day — 15 minutes, an hour, or free-form if you would rather type exact start and end times.
Click + Add task. Set when it started and how long it ran. Then answer the questions — you are describing what you did, not choosing a category.
Most entries take two taps. Then pick the activity and the area it was about — Academic Readiness, Career Readiness, SEL Readiness, Attendance or Discipline.
Once two or three days are in, open My Analysis. It shows where your time went against ASCA's target of 80% or more in direct and indirect student services. Save as PDF gives you a one-page handout.
You can import it instead of typing. The ⬆ Import calendar button sits at the top of your time blocks, next to + Add task.
From a screenshot. Shoot one day at a time, in Outlook’s Day view. If the day runs off the bottom of the screen, press Ctrl and − a couple of times to shrink the page until it all fits — or take two or three shots and drop them in together.
A screenshot of the week grid cannot work, and it is worth knowing why: Outlook prints no time on the appointments in that view. The hours down the left edge are the only clock text in the picture, so there is nothing for us to read. The tool will tell you rather than guess.
From a CSV, if you have the desktop Outlook — the one with a File menu in the top-left. Go to File → Open & Export → Import/Export → Export to a file → Comma Separated Values → Calendar, choose the pilot week, and hand us the file. This is the most accurate route by far: exact times, exact subjects, and it asks once what each of your Outlook categories means.
Nothing is saved until you review the list. Anything that lands on time you have already logged is marked already logged and starts unticked, so importing a day twice cannot double it.
Blocks that were with students arrive without a category, on purpose. A calendar title cannot say whether an orientation was a room full of students, or one student and their report card — you know, so you answer the questions. Everything else keeps its best guess for you to check.
This is a pilot, so the problems are the useful part. After a few days, tell Dawn: