vTools Authorization

The chart below indicates what you can access based on your role as an IEEE member, volunteer, or vTools user.  If you have any questions about your role or your access, please contact MGA-IM staff at mga-im@ieee.org.

Application OUs Supported Designations Authorization Notes
Engage

Regions, Sections

The following officer roles have access to Engage: Region Director, Section Chair, Section Vice Chair, Section Secretary, Section Treasurer, Section MD Chair, vTools Engage Coordinator

Region Directors can access the Sections below them. Section officers can access only their Section.

eNotice

Officers can only send eNotices to their immediate OUs. Region and Section officers can send to OUs below them.

Events

Affinity, Chapter, Committee, Community, Council, Joint Chapter, Region, Section, Section Student Branch, Society, Standards Working Group, Student Branch, Student Branch Chapter, Sub-section

Most officer roles have access to vTools.Events for their own organizational units. See Authorization Notes for more info.

Volunteers with any officer role can access and create events. Any user can view and register for events.

Nominations

Sections

The following officer roles have ADMIN access to Nominations: Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Nominations Chair. See Authorization Notes for more info.

Nominations processes have multiple stages at which various users can access. Please see the following tutorial for more detail: https://kb.ieee.org/vtools/blog/kb/nominations-tool-flow-chart/

Officer Reporting

Affinity, Chapter, Committee, Community, Council, Joint Chapter, Local Group, Region, Section, Section Society, Student Branch, Student Branch, Student Branch Chapter, Subsection

All officer roles have access to vTools.Officer Reporting for their own organizational units. See Authorization Notes for more info.

Volunteers with any officer role can submit officer reports for any OU. If you are submitting a report for an OU to which you are not directly associated, the report will need to go through staff review and approval.

Student Branch Reporting

Student Branches, Joint Student Branches, Section Student Branches

See Authorization Logic for more info.

Members with at least one officer role for a supported organizational unit, you can search for and view plans for any supported organizational unit. Officers for student branches can submit plans for their own student branch.

Surveys

The vTools.Surveys application is not currently in use.

Access to surveys is granted to active OU officers only. If you are not a current officer, you must have approval from your respective Section Chair.

To request access to surveys (SurveySparrow), submit your request here: https://vtools.ieee.org/survey-access-request-form/ 

Voting

Affinity, Chapter, Committee, Council, Joint Chapter, Region, Section, Section Student Branch, Society, Student Branch, Student Branch Chapter, Sub-section

All officer roles have access to vTools.Voting for their own organizational unit.

Officers can create ballots for their own organizational unit. The creator of a ballot can administer that ballot, and can specify a secondary administrator of the ballot.

vTools

Any IEEE member can request a Local Group to be created.

N/A - see Authorization Notes.

Anyone can view Local Groups. Anyone with an IEEE Account can join a Local Group. Only IEEE members can request Local Groups. Only Section Chairs can approve/deny Local Groups.

WebInABox

Affinity, Chapter, Council, Joint Chapter, Region, Section, Section Student Branch, Student Branch, Student Branch Chapter, Sub-section

All officers for a supported organizational unit have access to vTools.WebInABox.

If you have at least one officer role for a supported organizational unit, you can create/administer a website for any supported organizational unit to which you have an officer role or any of its child/descendant organizational units.

Xtreme

N/A - see Authorization Notes.

N/A - see Authorization Notes.

Proctor Registration: All proctors must be IEEE members with a grade of Member and above.

Team Registration: All participants must be IEEE members of Student member or Graduate Student member grade to register and compete in the competition.