WolfConnect

WolfConnect is an online community to help students stay connected to campus and manage community engagement activities.

Through WolfConnect, students can do the following:

  1. Search involvement opportunities and request to join student organizations
  2. Sign up for sponsored events
  3. Manually input volunteer service hours for events attended that are not coordinated through CSI or the Honors College
  4. Manage membership in multiple student organizations
  5. Stay connected to campus by checking out the community calendar to see what events are going on
  6. Track involvement through membership in student organizations, events attended, or hours spent volunteering

Navigating WolfConnect

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How do I document my hours?

  • Community Service Hours should be documented at the time they are performed via WolfConnect.
  • When a student signs up for an Honors College or CSI hosted event through WolfConnect, the involvement hours will be applied to the student’s account in WolfConnect after the event has taken place. Students will be required to sign in and out at the event, or swipe his/her UWG student ID when attending the event.
  • Students volunteering service for any organization not hosted through the Honors College or CSI will need to manually input their volunteer service hours through WolfConnect.
  • Before credit is received for the hours of participation, the Center for Student Involvement Office will contact the organization to confirm participation and validate the hours attended.
  • At the end of the semester the student participates in community engagement activities, students should complete a Community Service Project Reflection Summary Form that will be available within the Honors College Portal in WolfConnect. The reflection will help students gain a greater understanding of their roles in the community, as well as the impact of their contributions towards those in need of service.
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How do I view and sign up for Volunteer Service Opportunities?

Honors College students will receive an email inviting them to become a member of the Honors College Portal within WolfConnect. Students will follow the instructions in the email to accept membership and initially log in to WolfConnect. After logging in initially, students will follow the instructions below to access WolfConnect:

  1. Go to http://WolfConnect.com
  2. Select the University of West Georgia Community
  3. Type in your UWG username and Password (the same username used to log into myUWG)
  4. Under “My Memberships” at the top Right, select “Honors College”
  5. All Honors College posted events will be listed on the main Honors College page and will count toward the community engagement hours. Additionally, any "service" based event listed within the main section of WolfConnect, provided by the Center for Student Involvement, will count toward community engagement hours.  To view all events posted, including the CSI events, click on “Events.” Any event listed with “Service” to the right of the Event title is a service opportunity that may be used toward your community engagement hours. To sign up, click on the event title and register.
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How do I manually add Volunteer Service Hours to WolfConnect?

  1. Sign in to WolfConnect
  2. In the top right of the screen, click on your profile picture and your name
  3. From the scroll down options select “Involvement”
  4. Next select the green “Add Involvement Entry” box followed by “Service Participation”
  5. Fill out as much of the form as you can, including the contact information for the organization (to verify participation) and click submit

These hours will remain pending until verified by a staff member from the Center for Student Involvement. We will try and verify all pending hours within a week but it may take longer. 

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How do I confirm service participation hours within WolfConnect?

  1. Sign in to WolfConnect
  2. In the top right of the screen, click on your profile picture and your name
  3. From the scroll down options select “Involvement”
  4. All participation hours are listed under Activities and Community Service.  Anything event/activity with a "hand" icon beside it, counts as service participation.
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How do I complete a Reflection Summary Form?

Students are required to complete a short reflection summary of their volunteer service by the end of each semester.  The Community Service Project Reflection Summary is available under the Honors College portal within WolfConnect.

  1. Sign in to WolfConnect
  2. Select the University of West Georgia Community (if not already selected)
  3. Type in your UWG username and Password (the same username used to log into myUWG
  4. Under "My Memberships" at the top Right, select "Honors College"
  5. Click on the Community Service Project Reflection Summary form that is available on the main page of the Honors College community, then complete the form.