Hub teams can govern the mechanism for participants to join a Publicly listed ECHO program. This feature gives Hubs the ability to accept or reject requests to join, ensuring a better fit for their community. There are two types of registration settings that the Hub can opt for in case of public programs:

Auto Approved: Participants join the program without requiring any approval from the Hub team. This is followed presently for all ECHO public programs. Approval Required: Hub teams gains the ability to review participants and approve/decline their program enrolment. This becomes crucial and helpful in case the hub team wants to engage with a certain type of participants.

If you need some additional information to screen participants, you can also create a program registration form that the participants will have to fill out during registration.

Where will I find program approval settings?

1. While creating a public program

You can set the participant approval settings while creating a public program.

1. Login to iECHO.
2. Click on All Programs given in the left hand menu, on the homepage.
3. Select Create a Program
4. Follow the steps
5. Once you select the registration type as public, you will see an option to select the participants approval settings.

Note: If you need to gather additional information from participants, you can create a program registration form once a participant group is created.

1. Program Settings

You can also set the ‘participant approval settings’ under program settings. Note that all previously created public programs, will be set to ‘auto-approval’ by default.

1. Select All programs from the left hand menu.
2. Identify the program where you want to edit the program approval settings and click on settings.