You can use the Opportunities feature to advertise things that your members may wish to sign up to or apply to. Some examples of how Tent customers can use the opportunities feature:

• Advertising a lead volunteer role to a community of volunteers
• Advertising an internship to a community of programme participants
• Sharing external job opportunities amongst a professional network of programme graduates

Opportunities are different from Events. Opportunities are longer-term (or are potentially open-ended) whereas events run at a specified time / date for a short number of hours or days. Unlike Events, Opportunities may also include an application element, rather than just signing up.

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Switching on the Opportunities Feature

Like all features, you can toggle Opportunities on and off as you require. When Opportunities are switched off, your members won’t see the Opportunities item in the sidebar menu. Admins will always see all features, but a banner at the top of the page will inform them if the feature they’re viewing has been switched off.

You can toggle Opportunities on or off under Platform Setup > Toggle Features as and when you require them.

Toggling Opportunities off doesn’t stop you from creating opportunities, it just makes the entire feature invisible to non-admins. If you want to create some opportunities prior to launching the feature to your members - or if you just want to have a play around and a practice - then simply switch it off in Platform Setup and get creating.