You can manage some aspects of your mentoring program to control:

• how Mentors and Mentees are referred to in your community;
• the duration of mentoring relationships; and
• a threshold for the number of Mentees that a Mentor can have.

Access Mentoring Settings

1. In the Admin Toolbar, click Admin.

2. Navigate to Programs > Mentoring > Settings.

The Mentoring Settings page has two sections: Naming Conventions and Limits.

Naming Conventions

In this section, you can replace the default (singular and plural) names that are used to refer to Mentors and Mentees.

TIP: To accept the default values of these fields (Mentor, Mentors, Mentee, and Mentees), do nothing here.

NOTE: You can assign differing terms (for example, "mentee" vs "learner" vs "student"), but Higher Logic recommends keeping these simple and consistent.

1. In the four fields, specify singular and plural forms of whatever words you want used in your mentoring program.
2. Click Save (or scroll down to complete the Limits section).

Any changes will propagate across your community in about 10 minutes or so; go to an applicable page to confirm and review your settings.

Limits

Use this section to set any one of several mentoring-relationship "limits." These settings cannot be used in conjunction with one another.

Relationship length

You can set a default duration for mentoring relationships in either of two ways.

1. Check the Limit length of mentoring relationship box to expand the section.
2. Click the radio button for your preferred option.
3. Click Save after setting.

Number of days

• Specify the number of days for the relationship to last.
• This field is not limited by a maximum value.

How this setting works

Mentors/Mentees can set their own preferred maximum lengths that are honored if this value is not set by a Super Admin. However...

• If this value is set by a Super Admin:
  • this value overrides Mentors' and Mentees' preferred maximum lengths settings.
  • a lower value (set by a Mentor/Mentee) will be honored because, as this is a "maximum" threshold, values lower than it are honored but values higher than it are not.

End date

• This field defaults to the <current_date>.
• Click the calendar icon to open the calendar and select an end date.
  • If you manually specify a date, be sure to exactly match the field's date format.

How this setting works

Mentors/Mentees can set their own preferred end dates that are honored if this value is not set by a Super Admin. However...

• If this value is set by a Super Admin, this value will be honored.

Allowed number of Mentees

You can set a maximum threshold for the number of mentoring relationships a Mentor can have.

1. Check the Limit number of Mentees a Mentor can have box to expand the section.

2. Specify the maximum number of Mentees that your Mentors can be working with at any one time.

How this setting works

If a Mentor has set their own personal limit that is lower than this value, that number is honored because this is a "maximum" threshold.