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Budget Simulation
Everything you need to build and refine your simulation.Prioritize
Prioritize user guides and help articles.Tax Payer Receipt
Implementation articles for Taxpayer Receipt.Use Cases
Layouts and features for specific uses.
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Guided Tour
How it Works The Guided Tour feature allows the simulation maker to select the most important items for residents to interact with first, before proceeding to the full simulation. This is an excellent feature to highlight specific scenario questions, ...Progress Bar Options
How It Works There are two options related to the requirements for a user to submit on Prioritize. You can allow users to submit once they 1) be at or under the available amount or 2) meet or exceed the goal. These different options are reflected in ...Adding a Suggestion Box
How it Works Enabling the 'Your Suggestion' feature on Prioritize gives you the opportunity to capture additional sentiment from your users. You'll have the option to allow users to include an amount associated with their suggestion and either have ...Adding a Suggestion Box
How it Works Enabling the 'Your Suggestion' feature on Simulate gives you the opportunity to capture additional sentiment from your users. You'll have the option to allow users to include an amount associated with their suggestion and either have ...Editing Text Strings
Adding text strings to your simulation allows you to customize text, making the simulation more unique to you. Logging In Please be sure to use the login page that corresponds with your country: United States: https://admin.abalancingact.com/login ...
Popular Articles
Exit/Entry Windows
Overview Balancing Act gives you the ability to customize what users see when they begin a simulation. The "Exit/Entry" tab in the simulation building window provides options to: Add branding, such as your logo Insert videos, including messages from ...Choosing Your Simulation's URL
You can find the URL for your published budget by going to the simulations tab and then choosing edit. Your URL will appear underneath the name you have chosen for your simulation. Your simulation's URL is composed of two parts: the base and the ...Bulk Editing
This is an advanced feature. Most editing should be done using the control panel. Use of this feature could overwrite data. Duplicate your simulation before using this feature if you are uncertain about overwriting content. In some situations you ...Select Multiple in Scenario Questions
This article only applies to clients with scenario questions. If you are creating a scenario question you have the option to allow users to select multiple options. Some examples of when this feature can be useful include: Capital budgets Planning ...Using Balancing Act as a Teaching Tool
Balancing Act is an excellent tool for teachers to provide students an interactive way to learn about government and civics by letting them experience what it is like to build a budget. Hundreds of thousands of students have used Balancing Act ...