As the Student Event Planner for your organization, you are responsible for scheduling spaces, completing any required forms, meeting with campus partners, and obtaining required approval signatures as needed. Scheduling through VirtualEMS includes scheduling weekly meetings, to planning fundraisers and large events for your student organization.
This Student Event Planner training is a guide to instruct you how to use the JMU Event Management website and find the resources needed to plan and schedule for many of the spaces that your organization will need. The self-guided training will take approximately 30 minutes. Take your time as you move through the content, to understand how to follow these purposeful and important procedures and guidelines.
After completing the training, take the test to become a certified Student Event Planner. You can only miss one question to pass; however, the answers to the questions can be found on either this website or the JMU Event Management website. Certification is good for as long as you are a student and your student organization needs you in this role. Each organization can have up to two Student Event Planners.
