Organizing Chess Club Entries

I organize chess club entries using Google Sheets. I started using Google a couple of years ago when I created the online entry form using Google Forms. If you use Google Forms for online entry, families who register with it automatically have their information organized onto a Google spreadsheet. This is very helpful and saves time.

Here's a link to a tutorial I made about creating an online permission form https://youtu.be/ObHopDwezo4

If a child returns a form that is filled out, I enter the information manually on the Google Sheet. All of the forms and info are saved in Google Drive and are easy to access. After I input the information I put the forms in a folder in a file cabinet for reference. The only information that I put on the Google spreadsheet from the entry form is the child's name, grade level, school, and classroom teacher (last name only - helps with organization).  If I need to contact a parent from the stack of paper forms turned in, I go to the file cabinet where I store them and search for the child's name and find either the phone number or the email address of the parent that I need. I like it when parents use the online entry form because phone number and email address are easy to find. I could type all that information from the paper forms manually but considering how often I need to contact parents as compared to the amount of time that it takes to input it manually I preferred just to look through the file cabinet.