Reporting Your Hours

Our Online Reporting System (ORS) is how we collect the numbers we need to tell our story.

• For volunteer hours, the system has been loaded with local approved projects and coded for educational themes and audiences.  All you need to do is navigate to the project, select the activity (education, diagnostics, gardening, support) you performed and enter the hours on that task.
  • Communicate with the project lead or your county coordinator to know what level of detail to submit: some projects require information on a daily basis; others can be a monthly summary; and a few can be entered as an end of year total.  Hours are reported in hourly format, converted to decimals.
  • Only time at the project counts; do not count travel time to and from the event.  It’s OK to include breaks!
• Continuing education is easy to enter.  You can enter the amount of time, date of the event, and a short description of what you attended.
  • Use the class time only; do not count travel to and from the event or meals.

• Please round your hours to the nearest quarter hour, or
• Jump to an Hours Calculator to help you figure out your time.  Enter your start and end times and hit Calculate.  Use the Total Times (hours) calculation that is generated.

Reporting Hours: Example

Note: Travel time to and from projects is not allowable to report.