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Director overview

As a band director, MusterSheet is where you enter competitions, handle the paperwork and payment, and get your scores and judge feedback afterward. Here's the season at a glance:

  1. Set up your band profile — once, at the start of the season. Your roster and member counts are what hosts use to place you in the right class.
  2. Find & register for a competition — browse open competitions and submit a registration.
  3. Pay your registration fee — online by card, or by mailed check if the host allows it.
  4. Before competition day — watch for your schedule, warm-up time, and the host's arrival instructions.
  5. Competition day — check in from your phone and follow the live schedule.
  6. Results & your judges packet — the moment the host publishes scores, your full packet unlocks: scores, written commentary, and audio from every judge.

Your dashboard

After signing in you land on your Dashboard. For a director it shows:

  • Upcoming Competitions — a card for each registration, with its current status (Pending Approval, Accepted — Payment Due, Paid, and so on), the date, and your performance time once the schedule is set. On competition day the card grows a Day-of Dashboard button.
  • Recently Completed — competitions where scores have been published, with a View Judges Packet button.
  • A Band Profile summary card with an Edit shortcut.
  • A Recent Activity feed of things that happened while you were away (acceptances, schedule postings, and so on).

Finish Setup banner

If a yellow Finish setting up your band banner appears at the top of your dashboard, click Finish Setup. It means your band profile is missing the member counts hosts need to place you in a class — five minutes now saves an email exchange with every host later.

Co-directors

You can share a band with other directors — an assistant director, a co-teacher, a successor. Everyone attached to the band sees the same registrations and results. See Set up your band profile for how to add one.

Hosting or setting up the boosters

Your director account can do more than register your band. You do not need a second account for either of these jobs:

  • Host a competition: open My Competitions and click Create one or Create Competition. You can also open Browse Competitions and click Host a Competition. Continue with the Host overview.
  • Start your band's booster organization: choose Booster Organization from the left menu on a phone or your initials menu on a wider screen. You can also open Settings → Band Profile and click Start a Booster Organization. Creating it yourself links it to your band immediately; after creation, add the booster president and treasurer who will run it. If an officer already started the organization, enter the band link code they give you under Settings → Band Profile → Link an existing organization instead. See Start the booster organization.