Member Portal Setup
Find the instructions on how to set up your account listed below and watch our convenient video tutorials for guidance.
For any questions or issues, please contact admin@nsmta.org.
How To Set Up Your Member Portal Account
1. VERIFY
You should have received an email from admin@nsmta.org requesting to verify your Membership. If you don't find this email in your inbox or junk/spam, please send a test email to admin@nsmta.org to get past the email filters, and the verification email will be resent. Click on the link to verify your NSMTA Membership.
2. REGISTER
You will then receive a second email with the registration link. Click the link, enter your supplied MTNA registered email address and registration code, and click Submit. On the next page, create a unique username and password and click Register Account.
3. LOGIN AND CREATE YOUR FIND A TEACHER PROFILE
The login page will appear. Use your newly created username and password to login to the Member Portal. By the way, you can always access the login page by going to nsmta.org and clicking on the blue Member Portal button at the top right corner.
At this point, you are required to create your Find a Teacher profile in order to proceed further with the Portal. This is your public listing on the Find a Teacher database. The minimum requirement for completing the profile is to select your instrument. You are welcome to customize your profile as much or as minimally as you wish.
To edit your Find a Teacher profile at any time, click on the icon in the upper right corner and select Find a Teacher Profile.
How to Update Your Account Settings and Student Roster
These steps are required of all teachers who wish to enter students in NSMTA Events.
1. ENTER PERSONAL ACCOUNT DETAILS
Log in to the Member Portal, click the icon in the upper right corner and select Account Settings. Fill out your mailing address, phone number, and preferred AIM Location (if applicable). This information will be published on the NSMTA Member Directory and will not displayed publicly in any way. This information will also serve as your contact information used by NSMTA event coordinators.
To enter your mailing address, start typing in the field. Click your address from the list of matching addresses that will pop up. Type in your unit/suite/apartment number in the field below. Hit Save.
A blue verification button will appear on the next page: click the button to verify that all your information is correct.
2. ADD STUDENTS TO YOUR STUDENT ROSTER
From the sidebar, click Student Roster and then Add Student. Enter the names and contact information for each of your students who intend to register for events. This information will be directly pulled onto the Event Registration forms, so please enter details accurately. Easily reference these records when registering for events, viewing schedules, and entering final scores.
If you are on faculty of an associated area music school, please tag all of the affiliated students in your Student Roster. Area music schools include: Northwestern Music Academy, Music Conservatory of Illinois, Grow Music Academy, and Five Hands Piano Studio.
How to Register for Events
1. SELECT THE EVENT
Log in to the Member Portal. Click Events in the sidebar, and then Active Events from the menu that appears underneath. Select the Event you want to register for and you will be taken to its Event Dashboard.
Note: events will only appear in the Active Events list during their respective registration periods.
For your convenience, all Active Events will be listed on the main dashboard (the first screen you see upon logging in).
2. SUBMIT THE VOLUNTEER FORM (SSF AND AIM ONLY)
Fill out the required Volunteer Form to submit your availability. You will have the ability to edit the volunteer form any time up to the registration deadline.
3. REGISTER STUDENTS
From the Event Dashboard, you will see a table containing the names from your Student Roster. There are four columns in this table: 1) Not Registered, 2) Pending Payment, 3) Registered and 4) Withdrawn.
From the Not Registered column (the default view), click Register next to the student’s name and fill out the registration form. Be sure to click the Add Registration to Cart button at the bottom of the page.
Your student will now appear in the Pending Payment column. Edit or remove entries from this column before you have paid.
Repeat this process for all the students you wish to register for.
3. GO TO PAYMENT CART TO CHECKOUT AND COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION PROCESS
When you are ready to check out, click the Payment Cart button. You will see all the registrations in your cart.
If you are a Music School Employee, your music school registrations will be separated from your private student registrations. Music School registration fees will display $0 and will be paid for by the assigned admin/owner of that school at a later time.
Review your entries and then click Proceed to Checkout when ready to checkout. You’ll be directed to Stripe to make your payment via credit card.
After checkout is completed, you will receive an email confirmation of your Stripe payment as well as an email from NSMTA with a detailed summary of your registration details.
Once you return to the Event Dashboard, your students will now be listed in the Registered column.
Other Member Portal Features:
1. NSMTA MEMBER DIRECTORY
Members seeking to contact other NSMTA members will find contact information in the Member Directory (found in the Member Portal sidebar). This is viewable only by active NSMTA members and only after logging into their Member Portal accounts.
2. CUSTOMIZE YOUR FIND A TEACHER PROFILE
Click on the the icon in the upper right corner and select Find a Teacher Profile to begin customizing your public listing.