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    • Getting Started
      • How Houseplay is organised
      • Your first carnival: from school setup to ready to run
      • Choose the right carnival setup for your school
      • How will competitors take part?
      • Live entry or paper-first operation?
    • Setting Up Your School
      • Complete the organisation setup wizard
      • Set up houses and colours
      • Set up grades and year levels
      • Set up carnival types
      • Create and edit event types
      • Set up venues and lanes
      • Create divisions and allocate points by placing
      • Prepare a student file that will import cleanly
      • Import students from CSV or Excel
      • Add or edit a student manually
      • Delete students individually or in bulk
      • Import school records
      • Add and maintain school records manually
      • Invite a team member and manage their role
    • Building a Carnival
      • Grade or age: which grouping fits your school?
      • Use last year's carnival as your starting point
      • Create a carnival
      • Edit a carnival’s settings
      • Register every student in a carnival
      • Choose how to add events
      • Copy events from an earlier carnival
      • Add, edit and delete an event
      • Bulk-create events
      • Import events from CSV or Excel
      • Add and remove competitors from an event
      • Create teams and assign team members
      • Import competitors into events
      • Assign competitors to lanes
      • Create an event pool and its first heats
      • Bulk-create event pools
      • Choose an event-pool distribution method
      • Automatically add eligible competitors to a pool
      • Manage nominations manually
      • Automatically manage first-round events
      • Advance competitors through heats and finals
      • Build the carnival program
    • Running the Carnival
      • Carnival-day readiness checklist
      • Prepare printed forms for a paper-first carnival
      • Enter results for an individual event
      • Enter paper results after the carnival
      • Review potential school records
      • Complete or reopen an event
      • How student and house points update
      • How house points and champion students are calculated
      • Add or remove bonus points
    • Reports
      • Which report should I use?
      • How to download a report
    • Account & Billing
      • Subscriptions, student limits, and plan changes
      • Switch between organisations
      • Update billing details and download receipts
    • Troubleshooting & FAQ
      • House points or champion totals look wrong
      • A student row failed to import
    Support/Getting Started

    Getting Started

    How Houseplay fits together and your first carnival.

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    How Houseplay is organised

    Understand how your school setup, carnivals, events, competitors and results fit together.

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    Your first carnival: from school setup to ready to run

    Check your school setup, students, events, entrants and programme before the first event.

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    Choose the right carnival setup for your school

    Choose your school's event groups, entrants and result workflow before building a carnival.

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    How will competitors take part?

    Choose how to register students, select event entrants, or manage nominations through heats and finals.

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    Live entry or paper-first operation?

    Choose how officials will record results and plan the move from paper forms to Houseplay.