Frequently Asked Questions

Each member chorus can have one or more representatives with accounts on our portal. Usually it’s the director, president, and publicity manager. If you want to create a portal account for yourself or someone else as a representative of your chorus, please email us. You may give your login and password to others in your chorus to share your account, but only one person at a time will be able to use the same login and password. There is no extra fee to use the portal other than your chorus organizational membership dues.

If you want to make changes to your own account, you can do that yourself by logging into your NJCC membership portal Chorus Connection account and clicking My Account. To have your name and email removed from our membership portal, please email us.

If you want to change someone else’s account, contact that person; you can only change your own account. If you want to change or inactivate an account for someone who is no longer in your chorus or doesn’t need to use the portal, please email us.

After logging in to your NJCC membership portal Chorus Connection account, click Go next to NJ Choral Consortium. In the black bar on the top right:

• Click Manage, then Calendar. Click New Event (the blue box next to Calendar at the top).
• Enter your event information and click Save.

Tips:

• If you don’t see the calendar at all, the problem is on your end. First try reducing or enlarging the window. If that doesn’t help, quit and try it with a different browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, etc. – different ones seem to work better at different times).
• If your chorus has a Chorus Connection account for its own members, make sure you’re on the calendar page for NJCC, not the calendar page for your chorus. If the URL (the website address at the top of your browser window) has njcc in it, you’re in the right place. If the URL has the name of your chorus in it, you need to switch to NJCC. Click the Chorus Connection logo at the top left of the black bar, then click Go next to NJ Choral Consortium.

 Please do:

• Start with the name of your chorus and event title in the Name section, and state whether the event is virtual, in-person, or hybrid.
• Add a short description, the cost (or free of charge), and a website/social media link, email, or phone number for tickets, registration, and information in the Info section.
• Post events as soon as the dates are set, even if not all details are confirmed yet. This will help our member choruses avoid date and repertoire conflicts.

 Please do not:

• Do not click RSVPs. (This would only go to internal NJCC members, not your audience.)
• Do not click Call Time, Track Attendance, Restrict Access, or Concert. (These are used by choruses to manage rehearsals.)
• Do not list rehearsals or private events just for your chorus members, board, subscribers, or donors.
• Do not list events by organizations that are not NJCC members.

Your concerts and other events will appear on the Chorus Connection Calendar immediately. In about 24 hours, they’ll appear on the NJCC website Chorus Calendar. Upcoming events will be copied and pasted into the NJCC newsletter.

If you posted an event on our portal calendar and you don’t see it on our website calendar the next day, try refreshing your browser window or waiting another day (we’re at the mercy of Google). If you still don’t see it the 2nd day, or you don’t see it in the newsletter, please email us.

Log in to your NJCC membership portal Chorus Connection account. Click Manage, then Calendar. Click the event you want to change and click Edit. Make the changes and click Save. If you want to delete the event completely, click Delete. The changes will appear on the portal calendar immediately, and on our website Chorus Calendar in about 24 hours.

To post announcements such as job openings, log in to your NJCC membership portal Chorus Connection account. Click Bulletin Board at the top, then click New Post. Enter the Subject and Text, then click Save. Your post will be automatically emailed to members on our Chorus Connection portal who chose to receive Bulletin Board emails. Relevant posts will be copied and pasted into the NJCC newsletter.

When you activate your portal account, you’ll automatically get all NJCC portal Bulletin Board posts emailed to you. To stop receiving them, log in to your NJCC membership portal Chorus Connection account. Click Bulletin Board, then Change (just above the messages). Click Never, then click Save.

To close your NJCC account on our Chorus Connection membership portal, please email us. If you also have a Chorus Connection account for your chorus, that account will not be affected.

• To find resources we’ve posted for our members, click Files at the top. Click the folder name, then click Open to read it or Download to get a copy you can save on your computer.
• To post questions and notices for other members or the NJCC newsletter, click Bulletin Board at the top, then click New Post. Enter the Subject and Text, then click Save. Your post will be automatically emailed to members on our Chorus Connection portal who chose to receive Bulletin Board emails. Relevant posts will be copied and pasted into the NJCC newsletter.
• To stop receiving emails about Bulletin Board posts, click Bulletin Board, then Change (just above the messages). Click Never, then click Save.
• To send an email to a specific member, click Members, then click the person’s email address. To send an email to all representatives of your chorus listed on the portal, click My Account, then Communications. Under Groups I Can Email, click the email address shown for your chorus. A blank email will be created for you to complete and send.
• To learn more about other members, such as the chorus they’re in, click Members, then the person’s name. The chorus the person represents for NJCC is under Choral Organization at the top. For those in more than one chorus, additional choruses are listed under Groups at the bottom. Click Close when done.
• To see all representatives for a chorus, click Members, then enter the chorus name (or part of the name) in the Search box, then press or click Return or Enter on your computer. 

• To download our newsletter to share with your chorus members, click Files, then NJCC Newsletter, then Download for the issue you want (from March 2022 on).

Your chorus’s NJCC membership dues allow selected chorus representatives to use our portal free of charge for purposes related to NJCC. Chorus Connection provides free accounts only to choral consortia such as NJCC. Chorus Connection sells accounts to choruses to manage their membership records and concert tickets. The cost to the chorus depends on the size of the chorus. NJCC does not promote or sell software for Chorus Connection or any other company. Chorus Connection staff do not send unsolicited promotional messages to NJCC member choruses.

If your chorus uses Chorus Connection for its own membership records, and you also use the NJCC Chorus Connection portal, you’ll use the same login and password for both, but you’ll have 2 different profiles with 2 different calendars. After logging in to Chorus Connection, you’ll see both NJ Choral Consortium and the name of your chorus. Click Go next to the one you want to use. To switch from one to the other, click the Chorus Connection logo at the top left of the black bar. IMPORTANT: To post an event on the NJCC calendar, you must select NJ Choral Consortium, not the name of your chorus. 

There is no connection between the Chorus Connection calendar for your own chorus and the Chorus Connection calendar for NJCC. If you post an event on your own chorus calendar, only your chorus membership will be able to see it. The event will not appear on the NJCC Chorus Connection calendar unless you select NJ Choral Consortium and post the event again on the calendar there.

There are a few important differences between event posts for your own chorus members and event posts for NJCC, because your chorus members know more about your chorus than other NJCC members do. When you post an event on the NJCC calendar:

• In the Name section, enter the name of your chorus before the event title.
• In the Info section, enter your chorus website, social media link, email, or phone number for tickets/registration and information.
• PLEASE DO NOT click Call Time, Track Attendance, Restrict Access, Concert, or RSVPs. Those options are just for your chorus’s internal use on its own calendar.