Setting your target goal
Paratext 8 has a built-in system for tracking your translation team’s progress that can give an estimate of how much time it will take to accomplish your project’s goal. This can be useful for the team during yearly planning sessions when tasks are assigned to various team members. It can also allow administrators to track their team’s progress and be notified of potential issues long before the next planning and review session. But if you are going to take advantage of these features, you need to do a bit of configuring.
The first step, of course, is to select a project plan and customize it for your team. You can learn how to do this by viewing this set of 8 short videos on how to set up and administer the project plan.
Once you have the project plan in place and are using it, you can start to benefit from the progress charts in Paratext 8. …