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References: Choosing a Schedule and Building Registration

  1. Eventbrite - Wikipedia - History and features of the event registration platform this chapter uses as a case study for building an online sign-up system.

  2. Academic year - Wikipedia - Explains how schools structure their calendar around terms and holiday breaks worldwide, the reference point for this chapter's school-calendar-alignment and holiday-scheduling guidance.

  3. Academic term - Wikipedia - Compares semester, trimester, and quarter systems, the term structures behind this chapter's semester-based scheduling model.

  4. Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design - Alvin E. Roth - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Roth, a Nobel laureate in matching-market design, is credited with the capacity-rationing and priority mechanisms behind this chapter's mentor-gated enrollment strategy, which caps student registration to the number of confirmed mentors.

  5. Nonprofit Management 101 (2nd Edition) - Darian Rodriguez Heyman (Editor) - Jossey-Bass - Compiles practitioner guidance on program scheduling models and registration systems appropriate for small volunteer-run organizations, the framework this chapter adapts for choosing a session schedule.

  6. How to Set Up an Event Waitlist - Eventbrite Help Center - Step-by-step instructions for collecting names once a session is full, directly supporting this chapter's waiting-list-signup guidance.

  7. Change Your Event Capacity - Eventbrite Help Center - Explains the difference between per-ticket quantity and total event capacity, supporting this chapter's registration-capacity-limit section.

  8. Create Forms - Google Docs Editors Help - Google's own instructions for building, distributing, and collecting responses from an online form, the free tool this chapter recommends for a club's registration form.

  9. Afterschool Alliance - Afterschool Alliance - National data and resources on afterschool program models, supporting this chapter's comparison of alternating-Saturday, weekday, and drop-in scheduling formats.

  10. Start a Club - Girls Who Code - Shows how a real coding-club network structures its own application and registration process, a working example for this chapter's registration-system walkthrough.