Dear Colleague,

We’ve now enabled the registration feature of the online CEA database. We hope you will choose to use the online system to register for the conference. 

There are several advantages to registering online: 

• You immediately get an official invoice, useful when requesting institutional funding. 
• You can reserve a seat in events that sell out quickly.
• You can pay with a credit card, if you wish.

(a) login, 
(b) complete the 3-step registration process, 
(c) confirm your personal information 
(d) complete payment, either by printing your invoice and mailing it in with your check or paying online via paypal. 

(a). Log in.
Go to the submission database--<http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/conftool>--and log in using your user name and id. (If you’ve forgotten that user page/password, just follow the instructions at the login page for retrieving them). When you login, the database will take you to your “welcome” page. 

At your welcome screen,  find the link called  “register as participant.”

(b). Register in 3 steps:

Step 1
Select your membership status  (Regular,  Retired /Part-time, or Student), and leave member number blank. (We are not using the membership number for registration this year.)

Step 2
Select the events that you wish to attend. The database will automatically tally your fees. Please make sure to indicate if you will be attending the President’s Reception—that event is free, but your answer will help us know how much food to order.

Select a payment method. 
If you choose to pay by credit card, a later step will send you to the Paypal site. Please note: Paypal charges CEA a fee for processing your payment,  so we have added in a very small “shipping” fee (between 3-4% of your payment). 

Click on “Proceed to step 3.”

Step 3
Review your payments and fees, then click on “Submit and register now.”

(c). Verify Identity Data.
At this point, you have completed your conference registration, but the system will ask you to verify the data we’ll be using to print name badges. 
Skip the optional “community system” info. 
Click “Save Data”—the middle button.

(d). Complete payment.
After confirming your identity data, you will be returned to your “welcome page.”

• To pay by check, click on your invoice, print it, and send it in with your check.
• To pay via credit card, click on the Paypal button which will direct you to a secure site. 

If you have questions that these instructions don’t address, or any problems following them, please contact me, Ann Hawkins, CEA President, at cea.english@ttu.edu.

I look forward to seeing you at the conference.

If you need information about hotel registration, and/or if you prefer to register for the conference with a hard-copy registration form, see <http://www.as.ysu.edu/~english/cea/conf_2006_registration.html>.

Ann