Welcome to the website of the Ashland School District Food Service Program Improvement Committee.

In the future, we hope to expand the website to provide a means of making information available to, and gathering input from, all members of the Ashland School District  community, but for now, this version of the website is set up to provide  committee members with a central repository for our communication.  It's like email, except instead of sending email messages to each other, we can post messages in the forum. 

The reason a forum is better than email is because it's a lot easier to organize, find, respond to, and refer back to messages in the forum, as opposed to our email inbox. Also, the forum will only contain information about the Food Service Committee, while our email inboxes have much more than that.

About The Forum

Information in the forum is organized like this:

Sections
--- Categories
      --- Topics
           --- Posts (messages)

In other words, Posts (messages) are entered in Topics. Topics are listed in Categories, and Categories are listed in Sections.

The administrator (Dan) creates the Sections and Categories, but anyone can create new Topics, and anyone can enter Posts, or respond to Posts. I created two Sections: "General", and "Subcomittees", Please let me know which additional Sections or Categories you would like me to add.

Subscribing To Categories and Topics

The forum allows you to "subscribe" to any category or topic within a category. When you subscribe to a category, the forum will send you an email to you to let you know when anything has been updated in that category, such as a new topic being posted, or a reply to an existing topic being posted. 

When you subscribe to a topic, the forum will send you an email to you to let you know when a message (reply) has been posted in that topic.  

Since you can decide which categories and topics you subscribe to, you will only receive notifications about updates to categories or topics that are important to you.

To Use The Forum

- Click on the "Forum" menu (next to Welcome) above. That will display the forum.

- Anyone can look at the messages on the forum, but you have to create an account and log in to post, or respond to, messages.

- To create an account, click on "Create an account" in the upper part of the form page (where it says: "Forgot your password? Forgot your username? Create an account". This will prompt you for a username, password and email address. It will then send you an email to confirm your account registration. Click on the link in the confirmation email. That will confirm your account and allow you to log in.

 The Main Forum Page

Immediately below the login area, there are some tabs. Before you create an account and log in there are two tabs:

- Categories - Click Categories to list the Sections and Categories in the forum.

- Search - Click Search to search the contents of the forum.

After you log in, there are 3 additional tabs:

- New Topic - Click New Topic to create a new topic. It will prompt you for the Category in which you want to create the topic.

- My Topics - Click My Topics to list the topics that you have created.

- Profile - Click Profile to update your profile (user name, password, upload a photo, etc.)

 - To view the topics in a category, click on the category.

- To read the messages in a topic, click on the topic.

- To reply to a topic, click Reply below the topic.

To Subscribe To A Category or topic:

1. Log in (create an account if you have not done so).
2. Click on a topic (a blue folder within a green bar category heading). This will open the topic.
3. Click on the "subscribe" button at the top of the topic (under the green bar category heading).

Please let me know ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) if you have any questions or problems.

Thanks!

Dan