Help for the Testament Athletics Engine.

No. Staff fill in forms (a game's date and opponent, a player's name and photo, a news headline) and the Engine builds the pages. If you can fill in an online form, you can keep the site current. The User Guide walks through every task.

Staff save changes in the editor, then select Publish. The whole site is rebuilt with everything saved, usually in about a minute, and the editor confirms when it's live. Nothing reaches the public site until someone publishes, so staff can prepare several changes and put them live together.

The editor shows a badge, such as 3 unpublished changes, and the Publish window lists each change before you confirm. The Home page also flags past games that still need a score.

Yes. Save your changes, then select Preview beside Publish. In about a minute a new tab shows your whole site as it would look if you published now, with a Preview: not live banner. Nothing on the public site changes. When it looks right, select Publish and choose Publish your preview to put exactly that version live. Previewing is optional; you can always publish directly.

Only your school's staff, signed in to your school's editor. A forwarded preview link won't open for anyone else, and search engines never list previews, so it's safe to stage embargoed news such as a coaching hire. To show a colleague, ask them to sign in and select Preview themselves.

Someone saved a change after the preview was built, so the preview no longer matches what's saved. Select Preview again to check the latest version, or publish what's saved now. A preview older than 60 days also has to be previewed again before it can be published.

Preview access lasts 8 hours. Select Preview again in the editor, or open the Publish window and choose Open the preview again. If no tab opens at all, your browser blocked the pop-up: allow pop-ups for your editor's address.

Yes. The editor works on phones and tablets. Open the game on the schedule, select Add Score, enter the final score, then publish.

Yes. Download the roster or schedule as a CSV spreadsheet, fill it in with Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets, and upload it. Every row is checked and shown (new, updated, or a problem to fix) before anything is saved, and nothing is ever deleted by an import.

Nothing is public until it's published, so most mistakes are caught in the editor. The editor asks before anything destructive, such as removing a sport (which hides it rather than deleting it, so it can be restored) or starting a new season (which can be undone for 24 hours).

Box-score XML files exported from PrestoStats and DakStats. Uploading one adds the score, team totals and every player's line, and updates season stats automatically. Staff confirm which scheduled game the file belongs to before it's saved. Schools without stats software can enter just the final score.

Basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, field hockey, volleyball, lacrosse, football and ice hockey. Any other program can still have a schedule, roster, coaches, news, sponsors and a recruiting page.

Your site administrator starts the new season for each sport. Last season's schedule, roster and stats stay on the site as history, the roster and coaches can be copied forward as a starting point, and the change can be undone for 24 hours. The Administrator Manual covers it step by step.

Stats software sometimes spells a school differently. Your site administrator can set the team code (for each sport) or the team name used in stats files (in School Settings) to match the file.

Only staff your site administrator asks Testament to set up, each with their own account and password. There's no shared password, no public sign-up and no student-facing login.

Your site administrator contacts Testament support with the person's name and work email. Staff reset their own passwords with Forgot your password? on the sign-in page.

No. The Engine holds public content only: schedules, results, rosters, coaches, news and similar. There are no student accounts, and no grades, eligibility, academic or medical records, and there's no reason for them to exist in the system.

Your published site lives in a dedicated cloud account for your school, served over a global content delivery network. Public pages are static files, so there's no database behind them to slow down or take down on game day.

Yes. Choose a theme, set your colors and upload your logos in School Settings. A theme change takes effect the next time you publish; your content, pages and links stay the same.

Yes. Each sport's schedule, roster and stats keep every past season, and visitors choose the season they want.

Start with the User Guide and Administrator Manual in the Guides panel. For anything else, contact Testament; include your school, the page you were on, and any message the editor showed.