On average, most church leaders commit considerably more time, people and resources to Sunday school, bible study, adult education, sacramental preparation, and other classroom style teaching activities for their community each week than all their liturgical and worship services combined.  The purpose of Classroom Captain is to help ministry leaders create and manage schedules, lesson plans, teachers, students, meeting space, and more.  You can track student progress, record grades, make changes, and communicate with teachers, students and parents. You can also identify, check availability, reserve, and checkout shared resources such as projectors, computers, sound systems, sports equipment, musical instruments, and more.

Classroom Availability Scheduling – Enter capacity, resource and other conditions for each usable classroom and plan, schedule, track and communicate classes, events, and teachers for each.

Lesson Plan Templates – Every time anyone using the Mission 410 software creates a lesson plan they can publish it as a public template.  Then when you have to plan a lesson, instead of starting with a blank page, choose from hundreds of finished plans, then modify them to suite you specific needs.

Mobile Storyboard – Create fun, colorful, and interactive lessons, tests, puzzles, slideshows, lyric videos, games, presentations, and teaching aids to use in the classroom or on your class website.  You don’t have to be an artist because Mobile Storyboard will allow you to construct your own unique story characters from hundreds of fully customizable body, face, hair, clothing, and accessories that can be modified and posed for each different scene. Pose your characters with thousands of props, accessories, and backgrounds to tell your story.

Safe Environment Communications – All messages to and from all identified youth members of your community will display as public posts, available to all parents, guardians and other youth leaders. Learn more about Message Double.

Volunteer Recruiting and Training – Plan, set up, track and evaluate custom training, service and leadership goals for staff, volunteers and teen leaders. Learn more about Fantastic Teams.

Contact Information – Display contact information for youth leaders, church staff and important outreach ministries.

Fundraising – Earn money from local business ads on your web app. Also, add fund raising drives for charitable needs in your community to your website and promote them with the Promotion Designer.

Online Event Payments – Did you know, you can set up a PayPal account, with absolutely zero start up fees, that enables you to collect online payments from any major bank card? Your website will allow you to process PayPal transactions. Now teens and parents can pay for retreats, mission trips and other events from your website and you can keep track of who has paid.

Automated Reminders – Here youth leaders can set up multiple dynamic calendars for group meetings and events all joined to a central church community calendar. The smart calendar will allow you send and receive alert notifications and reminder messages, track responses and even synchronize with Outlook, Google, and other device calendars to avoid schedule conflicts.

Permission Forms – Create your paper forms as web forms that can be distributed and filed out with your web-connected device. Set rules for required information, auto-complete contact information from user profile data, get status lists of completed and returned forms. Then parents and teens can sign electronic forms and submit them any time day or night. Learn more about Document Slicer.

Youth Attendance – For safety, accountability and event planning, take attendance using GPS or touch pad sign in and keep a master roster that tracks all events, activities and service projects your teens and volunteers have attended. Quickly see who is missing so you can verify they are OK.

Supply Requests and Help Needed – Announce, list and track equipment, materials, supplies, and meals you need. Announce, list and track drivers, chaperones, cooks, teachers, technicians, musicians and other volunteer services you need.

Virtual Meetings – Hold group meetings with just a mobile phone, tablet or laptop. Give group leaders and members the ability to set up meetings, invite attendees, set agenda items, moderate discussions, take votes, make decisions, review details from past meetings, set schedules and more. See Crown Meeting for details.

Prayer Requests and Praise Reports – This is where members can ask their group and affiliate communities to pray with them for special needs. This is also where members can tell everyone how those prayers were answered.

Custom Surveys and Polls – Create quick questionnaires to gather information, test ideas, rank priorities or just find out who is actually planning to attend an event. Even share them with affiliate member groups.

Multimedia eCards – Select from hundreds of custom, welcome, get well soon, we miss you, birthday, anniversary, and congratulations Mobile Storyboard e-card templates from serious to silly with artwork, animation, music and sound effects. You can personalize them with your text and send them automatically (like birthday cards) or manually.

Resource Directory – This is where you save and categorize bookmarks, favorites, and links to special web resources endorsed by your ministry team.