Getting Started Tasks

• Review the Country Coordinator Implementation Guide to get an overview of the GLOBE Program and your role as a Country Coordinator.
• Download the Country Coordinator Responsibities Guide.

See What You Can Do as a Country Coordinator

View the Tutorial to learn about the Country Cordinator Capabilities on the Website.

Verify / Update Your Account Information

• Access your account settings
• Manage your personal information and password
• Upload a profile image
• Check your training records
• Check to make sure you're in the correct GLOBE organization

A My Page is the page for others to learn about you and is your 'dashboard' to manage and track your students' observations, create personal blogs, and communicate with GLOBE 'friends'.

Click on the profile icon at the top right of any page and then select 'My Page' or View the Tutorials to learn more.

View the tutorials to learn how to:

• Access and setup your country site.
• Learn how to create and manage News and Events.
• Update your country contact page.

Manage Users and Schools/Organizations

• See all of your teachers/educators and schools/organizations under your country.
• View educator profiles to update their personal information and organizations.
• View schools/organizations to update addresses, Lat/longs and other information.

Access The Partner Dashboard

• Use the Partner Dashboard to quickly get a summary of the users in your country and their account statuses.
• See Account Requested users (those who need their account approved to get trained) to review and approve them.
• See your workshop statuses.
• Communicate with your users.

Access The School Status Report

• See the activity levels of the schools/organizations in your country.
• Which schools/organizations are the most active?
• Which schools/organization have been inactive?
• Send out emails to the educators.

• Use the Workshop Admin Tool to setup and manage your workshops. Workshops can be In-person or virtual.
• Access the Workshop Tool by opening the Admin Menu Manage Workshop Administration

Open the Workshop Admin Tool

• Use the Trainer Dashboard to approve trainer applicants in your country.
• Access the Trainer Dashboard by opening the Admin Menu > Manage > Trainer Dashbaord

Open the Trainer Dashboard

See monthly totals of:

• Schools/Informal Education Organizations
• GLOBE Members
• Total Amounts of Data Entered
• Projects (Honor Roll, GLOBE Stars and Student Projects)
• Total Number of Trainers, Master Trainers, Workshops and People Trained at Workshops

View GLOBE Metrics & Impacts - in the About GLOBE section
View Country Coordinator Metrics - provides additional metrics for CCs

Download the app for free to enter measurements immediately for the four citizen scientists’ protocols – Clouds, Mosquito Habit Mapper, Land Cover and Tree Height.

After becoming formally trained, either through a GLOBE Workshop or online via eTraining, use the app to enter measurements for all GLOBE Protocols.
Learn more about the GLOBE Observer App and how to download it.

Get eTrained or Attend an In-Person / Virtual Workshop

What’s covered in the training:

• Get an in-depth overview of the GLOBE program and teacher involvement.
• Get an introduction to the Earth Science Sphere that interests you.
• Learn about your selected GLOBE protocol(s), how to define data sites, take measurements and analyze the data.

Once formally trained, you will have the ability to enter data for all GLOBE protocols.

Log-into the GLOBE Observer app or use the desktop version to setup data sites and enter observations.

Explore the tutorial to learn how to:

• Setup data sites
• Navigate the data entry forms
• Use Bundles
• Connect Weather Stations to GLOBE
• Track Your Observations

Use one of the 3 tools on the website to view and download your students' data:

• Visualization System - Good for viewing data on a map or chart and for comparing data from multiple sites.

• Advanced Data Access Tool (ADAT) - Good for downloading large amounts of data to a spreadsheet.

• GLOBE API - The GLOBE API is focused on supporting developers who want to use a programmatic interface to retrieve GLOBE data.