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NobleHour Setup Instructions for
Students in Courses Requiring
Community Site Verification
of Service or of Work
Spring 2015
For follow-up questions or assistance, please contact:
Heather Daly, Staff Assistant
MWCC Center for Civic Learning and Community Engagement
978-630-9435
[email protected]
You will receive at your MWCC email address an invitation to your specific course group
on NobleHour. The invitation will look similar to the email shown on the left below.
Click the blue “Join Now” link in your NobleHour invitation email
to reach NobleHour’s yellow “Get Started” button.
If you already have a NobleHour
account, you must still click the blue
“Join Now” link in your invitation
email and login to NobleHour when
prompted in order to be enrolled in
the correct course group.
If you did not receive an invitation email or inadvertently
deleted your invitation email, please contact Heather Daly
at 978-630-9435 or at [email protected].
Complete the fields to create your NobleHour account.
•
(If you already have a NobleHour username and password and have not yet logged into NobleHour, please
instead click the yellow “Log In Now” button.)
• Please use your MWCC email address when creating your NobleHour account.
• You devise your own password. You do not need to use the same password you use for your MWCC email.
• You are welcome to use the MWCC Gardner campus zip code instead of your home zip code, if you prefer.
The MWCC Gardner campus zip code is 01440.
• You do not have to choose to receive news and tips from NobleHour.
• If you have any concerns about using NobleHour or about the personal data that NobleHour requests,
please contact the MWCC Center for Civic Learning and Community Engagement to discuss.
Once you login to NobleHour, if you don’t see the MWCC logo at the top left
of your screen, click the globe icon near the top right of your screen and find
“Mount Wachusett Community College”.
To setup your service timesheets, click “Hour Tracking” on the blue menu bar and then
“Track a New Opportunity” on the side menu bar that will appear.
Find your course on the drop-down list of “my current crediting groups” and then click
“Select Group”. Make sure the group you select matches your specific course, your
instructor, and your course section (if there are multiple sections of your course).
(If your specific course or course section does not appear on your drop-down list of “my
current crediting groups”, find your course or course section on the list of “all Mount
Wachusett Community College groups” on the lower half of the page. Alternatively,
re-open your invitation email and re-click the blue “Join Now” link… then return to
“Hour Tracking” and “Track a New Opportunity”.)
On the next screen,
look for Option 1
“Find my
organization and
select opportunity.”
Enter a unique
search term for the
name of your
organization. You
can leave the other
fields blank. Click
the blue “Submit”
button to search for
your organization.
Scroll down the screen to
see your search results.
If your host site appears
among the search results,
click the “Select” button
next to your host site.
If your host site does not
appear among the search
results, type a different
search term and try the
search one time.
Examine the search results
carefully to make sure you select
your specific host site. Some
large organizations have two or
more smaller organization pages
on NobleHour, such as
“American Red Cross Disaster
Services” and “American Red
Cross Blood Services”.
If you did not find your host site from among the search
results, please see the next page for further instructions.
If you found (and selected)
your host site from among
the search results, you will
then see a list of
opportunities available at
that organization. Choose
the opportunity that
corresponds to the type of
service or work you have
agreed to provide at the
host site. Many sites list
only a “General
Opportunity”, which you
may select if no other
opportunity is listed or
other opportunities do not
describe your intended
service or work.
If you did not find your host
site in the search results, scroll
beyond the search results to
Option 3 “I can’t find my
organization.”
If you did not find your host
site among the search results,
complete the information
requested about your service
or co-op site.
Regardless of whether you found your host site among the search results or whether you did
not find your host site among the search results, you should now review your final setup.
Make sure your “crediting group” accurately shows your course and that your organization is
listed correctly. (Your specific information will likely be different than the example shown
below. ) Click “Submit”. Your setup is complete!
From now on, whenever
you login to NobleHour and
click “Hour Tracking” on
the dark blue menu bar, you
will see this “Add Daily
Hours” screen, where you
report the date, start time,
end time, and “Work
Reflection” for your service
or work.
You can enter additional dates after clicking “Add” for each
report. When your report is complete, click the black “Submit”
button on the badge corresponding to your service or work at
the lower right corner of the screen.
Your “Work Reflection”
should be a very brief
description of your service
activity or work on that
particular date, such as
“Tutored 5th graders in
math” or “Provided
Facebook training for
senior citizens”.
Review the timesheet that will then appear on
your screen. This is the exact timesheet that
your host site supervisor and course instructor
will receive. If you need to correct the
information for any date on your report, click
the pen icon next to that date to edit the
information associated with that date (or to
edit the actual date).
To submit your report, type your name where
indicated, click the box indicating you have
reviewed your report, and click the “Submit”
button at the foot of the report.
You will then be given the option to print your timesheet.
If you provided an email address for your host site
supervisor, you do not need to print your timesheet; your
timesheet has already been sent via email to your
supervisor for verification.
If your service site supervisor has asked for paper
timesheets due to lack of computer access at the site, take
advantage of the option to print your timesheet when the
option is offered. Return signed timesheets to the MWCC
Center for Civic Learning and Community Engagement,
Room 152, Gardner Campus.
Whenever you want to report your service
learning hours, the link to NobleHour can
be found on iConnect’s Home menu.
Always access NobleHour from iConnect!
If you instead use Google or another
search engine to find NobleHour, you will
land in nationwide NobleHour (where it
can be difficult to find your timesheets and
your information) instead of MWCC’s
NobleHour community.
Whenever you want to view
the status of your timesheets
or your total credited hours,
click “Hour Tracking” on the
dark blue menu bar and then
“Submit Hours”.
The “View Submitted Hours”
and “My Hours Reports”
options allow you to view (and
“unsubmit”, if needed) reports
you have already submitted…
or simply view which reports
have been approved.
The bottom half of “My Hours Reports” provides additional detail about your service or work, as shown
below. Please note that the “Total” column in the chart at the bottom of “My Hours Reports” is not a
reliable indicator of your total service or work hours, as the “Total “ column can include rejected
hours. View the “Credited” column instead for an accurate record of how many hours have been
verified (if required by your instructor) and accepted by your instructor.
The MWCC Center for Civic Learning and Community Engagement is available to help
you if you have any questions about using NobleHour or encounter any problems.
Please call Center Staff Assistant Heather Daly at 978-630-9435 or email her at
[email protected] if you seek assistance.