Benefits for Animal Organisations
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* Students may use the Platform either as VISITORS, or join the Community within the Platform as MEMBERS.
Why join the Community?
The One Zoo Tree Platform is the most comprehensive career preparation tool available, currently focusing on careers working with animals. The platform aims to assist the students in choosing a career as well as in planning and preparing for it.
Students can choose from over 500 careers, network with other students, communicate directly with expert role players, access a calendar of events, a job board, and a list of bursaries, as well as learn about all the animals they will work with.
To ensure maximum exposure to and knowledge retention of careers and animal facts, the platform incorporates various role players into the community, including schools.
DEFINITION:
Animal organisations are places that work with animals, where students may volunteer, work part-time, or send correspondence online to help them gain experience.
REPRESENTATION:
Each organisation is represented in this community by one of its own appointed representatives, who interacts with the students and other role players on behalf of the organisation.
ORGANISATIONS CAN:
- Educate students on the work done within the organisation
- Post future educational (such as courses) or experience-oriented (such as volunteering) opportunities at the organisation
- Post available job openings
What are the Benefits for ORGANISATIONS?
When you join as an animal organisation, you will be able to access specific tools to interact with students and other members while contributing to the information they can access.
Benefits as a MEMBER
PERSONAL PROFILE
Register and create your own personalised Profile.
When you register as a member, you need to create your own Profile.
What does your Profile offer you?
- Personalise your profile with an avatar and background image
- Show or hide your information
- Post daily updates on what you are doing
- See your own daily activities within the Community, including steps completed towards rewards
- Network with students, or make new contacts from among other organisations
- Message your interested students directly
IMPORTANT!
The community is protected by various levels of security.
Students need to supply only the basic information when registering:
- Choice of choosing a username instead of real names
- Avatars can be used instead of real photos
- Profiles can be made public or private
- Address is NOT required, only Country with the OPTION of including city/town.
- Rules prohibit students from supplying unnecessary personal information
Please ensure that their information stays safe!
Don’t want to add or share a real photo as an avatar?
You can use any clear image, or follow this link to an online app where you can easily create your own cartoon avatar. When you are done, save it to your PC or phone, and then upload it on OZT to your new profile.
INTERACTION
Create a Group for your Organisation
Students can join the group you created and interact with you as an administrator and with any material you may add.
What does a Group offer you as an Organisation?
- The ability to communicate with students as they interact within the OZT Platform
- Create your own Topics in the Group Forums and monitor how the students interact
- Add documents in the content area for your members to download
- Add links to online articles, videos and images
- Add a special link to your own series of short courses.
- Use the free short courses and tools to assist your students on animal-related careers
SHORT COURSES
Complete free Short Courses or add new info
As an organisation, you have full access to all of our short courses. Download them, print them, or share them directly on your websites.
Short courses help students gain the needed knowledge to bridge the gap between high school and further studies or to start an animal related career or business. They also teach them which career skills are required, as well as facts about the animals they can work with.
There are a lot of special short courses being added where they may learn things such as surviving in the wilderness or the basics of volunteering.
When you create your own group, you may also submit your own course(s) or bundle existing ones to showcase to your members. A special link in your group will direct the students to the right courses.
We will gladly help with the compilation of your courses and the link page.
The current breakdown of Courses:
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Access or contribute to Resources
Besides the hundreds of free short courses, OZT offers organisations access to additional career resources to help children choose and prepare for a career.
The platform remains crowd-sourced. We would therefore like to encourage you to add any animal-related information that could benefit other young members.
These resources include:
500+ Career Plans
Free examples of a career path plan for each career profile, plus a detailed study guide
Career Events
A calendar of events with links to animal-related events, such as expos, fairs, camps and volunteering opportunities
Study Bursaries
A list of bursaries to assist children in accessing funds in order to complete important tertiary studies
Education Directory
A directory of institutions and their courses to assist children in deciding on what and where to study further after high school
Job Board
An updated Job Board containing entry level animal-related jobs (full or part time, volunteering, mentorship, apprenticeship and more)!
REWARDS
Earn rewards
Members can earn various kinds of rewards by joining and interacting within the Community. Rewards are divided into Ranks, Points, Badges.
For a full list, have a look at the Reward System.
Rules and User Policy
The One Zoo Tree Platform makes use of community software to allow members to create their own profiles, join groups, and communicate with each other directly via an onboard messaging system.
As international law places restrictions on the age of users without adult consent, the platform has made the MEMBERSHIP part available for students aged 14 and up.
Parents take full responsibility for supervising members 13 and younger. All students will be required to read and agree to a strict USER POLICY.
We have a very strict USER POLICY and set of operating RULES. These documents, together with operational GUIDES can be found in the MAIN MENU, as well as within the FOOTER towards the bottom of all pages.
If you want to join OZT as a member, you are required by law to read through the USER POLICY, and agree to it’s terms when registering. Any violation of the USER POLICY and RULES will lead to immediate account termination. This will never be negotiable, as we value the safety of our users more than the platform itself!
A quick scan through the User Guide within the Member Portal will show you how to use the different elements of the platform.
Steps to Join
If you want to join the platform as an Organisation, please keep the following steps in mind:
- When you Register, you will be requested to create a Profile Page. All users need to have a Profile to allow interaction on the Platform, including the right to create a Group. Please ensure that the person who creates the account is dedicated to maintaining the account.
- Your Profile needs to be in your own name, or a user name can be used. Only your Group can be in the name of the Organisation
- All Organisationss have received an optional extra tab in their Group navigation, which you may request, and link to specific material on the Platform
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Frequently Asked Questions
All levels of Membership tacitly or automatically renew after 12 months. Membership can be terminated or closed by following the prompts under the MANAGE tab in your profile.
Groups stay active, even after you have terminated your membership. This is done to avoid the loss of valuable information and material that students can access on the Group. If you do wish to terminate your Group, it can be done under the MANGE tab in the Group menu.
All the Groups on the Platform are automatically open to all members, but you can change the status of your Group under the MANAGE tab to make it Private or even Secret. Members can then only join after you invited them, or requested permission to join. Closed Groups unfortunately wont show up under searches.
We have a strict security policy, which includes locking accounts when we detect a possible breach attempt. Multiple wrong login attempts will cause an account lock, so if you have forgotten your password, rather ask for a new one under the LOGIN page.
You can add links or documents directly to your Group, either through the activity page, or under the MEDIA tab. You may also contribute information to any of the careers, species pages or short courses by clicking on the red beetle on that page, or the CONTRIBUTE TO OZT option at the top menu.
