Adding stuff to your Activity Tracker is pretty simple. After logging in, the left hand side will have under ‘Administration’ a tag called ‘my activity’. From there, you can press the ‘Add Activity’ button on the top right corner.

Make sure to have the right rank displayed, as well as putting it under the proper category. Add notes to clarify something, for example what medals and place you earned on a competition, or your score on an exam.

Direct editing of Activities is not currently possible, but a good way to do it is to simply copy (Ctrl+C) the activity –or the notes, whichever one is larger. Then, delete the old activity, add a new one, paste the old entry and edit as desired before submitting it again.

To make sure you do not forget anything, it is best to check your Activity regularly and update immediately after having done something. That way, you can be sure you have the most up-to-date information.

If you are a Battleteam Leader or higher, an Envoy, or a Site Admin, you have the option of viewing the activity of other Clan members. To do this, after logging in go to the ‘Roster’ of Clan Arcona under the ‘Resources’ header on the left side. From there, click on the profile of the member you want to see. On the top left hand, just under their name should be a link called ‘View Activity’. From there you can see all activities done just as you can see your own, and assign awards as appropriate.

For the leadership, there is also the ‘Recent activity’ tag, which shows the last fifty updates to people’s activities. Checking it our regularly means knowing just what your Battleteam, House, and Clan have been up to lately, and you are advised to do so as often as you can.

What to add to your Activity Tracker? Well, simply put: everything. If it is something DB-related you can put it down there, with only a few caveats.

The most important one is that you should obviously only write down positive things. Like in a real life résumé you should write down the positive things. Not failing to do XYZ exam or such.

The second one is to keep your Activity ordered. Sure, the ‘My Activity’ section looks huge when you write down every Cluster of Fire separately. But doing that is an absolute pain for the leaders, who only want to know totals. So it is often better to, for each rank, simply create a title called ‘Gaming Nights’. There, you can list under the notes just how many Clusters of Fire you gained, how many gaming nights you have participated in, and more. Similarly, you can create an ‘ACC’ header that tells how many ‘casual’ (meaning non-competition) ACC battles you have participated in, as well as a total of wins/losses.

In this manner, your activity should be detailed but easy to read, which will help your leaders immensely.

Why add things at all? To be honest…because leaders are not perfect. They make mistakes and oversights, sometimes fail to see just how much effort some people put into the DB work they do. They are also often very busy people, and having to spend hours just finding the totals of one person’s activity for a Dark Cross, when that same person is far more intimately familiar with the work involved is wasteful. The leadership often has many other things to do, and by helping out this way you can make certain that any slips are quickly corrected, and thus make your advancement through ranks and the accrual of medals that much easier.

The Activity Tracker helps, also, with giving an idea on how medal requests are written. Many of you will one day occupy a leaders’ position, and by knowing just how much is involved in writing up activities, you can get an idea on how to write up proposals such as these, an invaluable skill.

Leadership can post News on the newspage. This is the Clan’s main venue for internal news, and where you might expect to find updates regarding the website itself as well as possible addendums to any reports.

After logging in, leaders can post news by clicking the ‘Post News’ button on the left side, under ‘Administration’. You can also edit any News in existence.

All the members can comment by pressing, on the top right, the button that lists the current amount of comments. From there, just type in your comments and click the ‘Post Comment’ button.