Transcript for how to nominate a student for a Minister's Award

- [Narrator] This video shows you how to submit a Minister's Award nomination on the Community Languages Schools Program Portal. It's best to use Google Chrome as your web browser. This process should take you about 20 to 30 minutes to complete. Before you begin, please take a few minutes to visit our website to read about the Minister's Award, what you need to apply and how nominations are assessed. It's a good idea to prepare answers to the longer questions supporting your student's nomination in a Word document in advance. This is easier and will save time when you add these later. You can find these questions at the end of this guide. Log in to your account with your user email and password. Go to the Minister's Awards web tile and click Read More and Apply. Once you've reviewed the Minister's Award details and are confident that you have all you need handy, click Apply to start your nomination. Choose the nomination category for your student, Junior or Senior. Start typing your school name. You'll see a list of your schools showing in the dropdown. Start typing the student's name in the student name field. Select their name from the dropdown list. Add their address details. Use the dropdown to select the year the student is enroled and how many years the student has been studying. Add the name of their teacher. Then select yes or no to confirm if the student has previously received a Minister's Award. Check all the details are correct and click Save and Proceed. Add parent or caregiver name and their contact details. You will need to add the details of at least one parent or caregiver. Click save and proceed. Add the details of the nominator for this award, noting that the nominator must be a current teacher or management committee member. Add the coordinator of the language program. Add the name of the student's mainstream school which they attend Monday to Friday. Again, you choose the name from a dropdown list. Add the name of the principal of the student's mainstream school, and the email contact. Add the student's community language proficiency level from the dropdown list. You can check the proficiency descriptors in the link provided. Click save and proceed. On this page, you'll be adding the details to support your student's nomination. Here's where you can use the answers to longer questions from the Word document, which you prepared earlier. I'll just be adding sample text just to show the process. These sections describe the student's commitment to community language study, participation in language and cultural activities, and other additional qualities. Then complete the checklist by selecting yes or no for each of the five questions. Once these sections are completed, check all the details are correct and click Submit. You will then see a confirmation message that your nomination has been submitted. If you need to review or unsubmit your nomination, you can do this as long as it's before the closing date. On this page, you can either resume or unsubmit a nomination. To resume a draft nomination, simply click the Resume button and you can take up where you left off last time. Or click the display button to see the nomination details that you've entered so far. If you've already submitted your nomination and want to withdraw it, click the Unsubmit button. A message will show on screen confirming that the nomination has been unsubmitted. Remember, the review and unsubmit functions are only available prior to the application closing date. Thanks for watching.