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Add a menu option for "My Committees"
Currently users can get to their committee pages by going to "My Profile" and clicking on the appropriate link. This works fine for experienced website users. The logical place to look for your committees is through the "My Branch" page, but this is tedious and requires scrolling through all the committees and subgroups in the branch. Please add a menu option for "My Committees" that will take all users directly to a list of their committees (or even to the section of their profile with the links).
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Easier to see instructor opportunities: Combine instructor opportunities and add them as a filter with all other activities
Make it easy to see instructor opportunities for courses and clinics by showing them directly in the 'find activities' page. Today, when one selects 'find activities' they see 18 types of activities including hiking, scrambling, sea kayaking. But to see course instructor opportunities one has to click on 'volunteer' --> 'volunteer with us' --> scroll halfway down to click on 'find instructor opportunities'.
As a volunteer-led organization, it's important to make finding instructors as low-friction as possible and putting 'instructor opportunities' in the same page with all the other activities will go a long way in giving our members that…
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Display dates of Submitted Leader Applications
The new Submitted Last Application page is very helpful. Thanks.
It would be very helpful to include the application date in the information shown to volunteers. Currently, for example, there are almost 200 Hike-Backpack Leader Applicates dating back about 5 years, but they are all displayed in a single very large last that shows only the applicant names. It's possible to learn the date of an application by clicking it a noting the timestamp in the URL, but many volunteers are not sufficiently tech-savvy to do that, and it's necessary to click on each application individually in order to…
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Sep 2022.
Notes:
- Added "Date Submitted" field to application forms and set its default to today's date. This data will be available to forms submitted from now on.
- Changed "Submitted Forms" buttons/links to be the folder contents view which has a "Last Modified Date" column, as close as we can get o s submitted date for the submitted forms folder.
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Update "Congratulations on your new course badge!" Email
Volunteers and I are working on clarifying pathways to volunteering. One of our ideas was to modify the “congrats on your new course badge” email that is sent to course graduates. We were thinking of adding emphasis to instruction and other volunteer leadership resources to create a pipeline from course graduate to volunteer instructor. With the hope that they will consider other volunteer leadership roles in the near future. Wanted to ask you both if it would it be possible to modify the below email that is currently sent out to course graduates to the this updated draft:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lrRXmCqTQHNHA0vFPDT_X0F3dF2PeOzpT5gQi8glerA/edit.
2 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted May 2022.
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Leader resources tab
Can we have a leader resource stab which could outline:
Master list of climbs
Field Trip Lottery dates
Shared resources like manuals, application drafts, graduation drafts, etc.
Many more things I'm sure I haven't thought of...1 voteWe already have a “Leader Resources” page with much of the information in this suggestion. Choose “Leader Resources” from the “Volunteer” menu in our website’s header. The URL is https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteer/leader-resources.
If there are resources that aren’t on that page, please send an email to info@mountaineers.org and suggest an addition to that page.
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Make the Volunteer Hours page visible to all leaders GH3166
Similar to how leaders can view any member's activity/course history. This would help leaders get a sense for a member's availability, see what they have or haven't tracked, etc.
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Add a "Branch" column in addition to a "Branch" filter on the Committee Chair Directory GH3140
This would be helpful for searching and filtering in the directory, and it would help make clear which committees belong to which branch.
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Committee volunteer hours page
Thanks for the volunteer hours tracking! Any chance we can get a "committee volunteer hours" by committee? that would help committee chairs track and verify their hours. similar to committee feedback. Thank you!
1 voteCancelled · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedThis information will be integrated into new and improved branch dashboards that will be launched soon.
We will also likely add volunteer hours into committee -aggregated leader feedback whcih will be added in the next few years as part of an upgrade and overhaul of our leader feedback system.
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Volunteer (instructor recruitment) request opt in GH2800
With mega course rosters for instructor recruitment and other ways we can email people through the website it would be nice for people to have a way of opting in/out of instructor recruitment emails.
7 votesLow Priority · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedForum functionality will likely cover this need and we can export data from Salesforce as needed.
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Add new brands on ExpertVoice
I love this perk and have used it 3 times already. My only complaint is that there needs to be new brands added on. I remember getting an email about a brand item only to find out it's not on The Mountaineers. How hard is it to add more?
I know we all like different brands so I would hate to loose any just want more added in.1 voteThanks for your note Vickie. We’re happy to hear that you are enjoying and taking advantage of the benefits offered through your membership. ExpertVoice has been one of our generous supporters for many years, and they offer discounts on brands for Mountaineers at two different levels: about 100 brands are available for members, and 300 brands are available for volunteers (who volunteer five or more days a year). ExpertVoice selects the different brands available at each tier. If you’d like to provide them with additional feedback, you can do so at https://www.expertvoice.com/contact.
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Branch admins should be able to schedule an activity for any of their committee's leaders SD643
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This is important for people who want to help with admin on the website but don't want to be on every single committee roster when they aren't actually doing much work regularly for that committee.
Needs to work for scheduling, trips, clinics & seminars, and course activities.
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Enable trip leaders to Identify Potential Leaders on a Trip
Currently, trip participants can rate trip leaders. Trip leaders need to be able to rate trip participants. Specifically, trip leaders need to be able to identify trip participants who demonstrate attributes of a future trip leader, and this information needs to be shared with branch committee leadership so they can follow-up with the potential trip leader and encourage them to take the appropriate next steps to volunteer as a trip leader.
When trip leaders close their trip or prepare a trip report, this new feature needs to be made clearly available to them so they are given an opportunity to…
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Organizations, Online Invoicing & Contracts SD562++
Set up organization in our website so that we can sync them to the existing organizations in SF. This will allow us to connect contacts, activities & courses (Mountain Workshops), events (Program Center Clients) and lodge stays (Outdoor Center Groups & Clients) to them for better tracking. We'll be able to add invoices that the organization contact can pay online, taking advantage of our existing online payment process and Salesforce reporting.
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Create a searchable database of all committee chairs SD646
searchable by activity type, branch (idea came from scramble summit)
5 votesCompleted Sep 2019.
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Member Roles for Committee Pages
When editing the committee roster, it would be nice if we could select/enter roles of different members so that when we check the box to display that member on the committee page, others can see those roles.
For example, if my name shows up on the Photography Committee page, it just says "leader". It would be nice if it could say "activity coordinator and publicity" under my name. That way, visitors to the page would know to contact me for questions about those things. Limiting titles to Chair, Treasurer, Leader, etc. doesn't really tell people how we're involved.
There's currently…
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Add a "My Branch" Link GH1868
Add a My Branch link next to My Activities and My Courses and Programs on the short click menu when you click on your name when you are logged in to see branch events and blogs and stay up to date on all branch activities.
12 votesMembers and guests can now access their branch page from the My Branch link in their profile menu in the upper right side of the header of every page on our website. Now everyone the same quick access to their branch info as they do to their profile, activities and courses.
Please be sure that content on your branch pages, including blog posts and events, are up-to-date, because we anticipate this will drive higher traffic to your pages.
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Allow Co-leaders and Mentored Leaders to be Notified of Participant Registration Changes
We like giving the Primary Leader the option of being alerted when there is sign up activity on their hike. It would be great to offer this to Co-leaders and Mentored Leaders too.
8 votesThis is bit more complicated that it seems it should be, but we’re looking into what it will take to get it done.
If we do this, you’ll only be able to have one co-leader and/or one mentored leader. Do you think that will be okay?
Additionally and perhaps more importantly if you make someone who is a co-leader or mentored leader have Admin status on the roster they will be able to view Feedback for that activity. Very useful for co-leaders and mentor leaders
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Create @mountaineers.org email address for committees
Currently a number of committees have created Gmail addresses, which are shared between chairs, course leaders, etc. It seems like there should be @mountaineers.org addresses for this
1 voteUnfortunately we do not have the resources to manage and support the number of email addresses this would require. Management includes initial setup, support desk for access issues, and volunteer turnover.
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Sort Courses and Activities by Date GH1837/1955
Contents view of a Course Template or Activities folder apparently returns items oldest-first. This requires scrolling to the bottom of the page to find the newest (and most likely of interest) items. Please change to sort sub-folders first, then courses or activities by newest first.
Note, if not fixed, this will become increasingly more inconvenient as history accumulates
2 votesThe column headers in the “folder contents” view are now spaced correctly and you can sort (as you always have) by clicking on a column header. But the sort is only one direction ( e.g. A-Z) for now. The reverse sort now works as it should.
If you want to have a faceted search on any of your course template “Activities” folders, please send an email to info@mountaineers.org.
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Entering, Tracking and Reporting Volunteer Hours SD394++
Some features needed:
* Self-reporting volunteer hours (e.g. projects and committee meetings)
* Add a My Volunteer Hours page (self-reported, activities, courses and events [and volunteer opportunities])
* Printing volunteer hours for company matching
* Salesforce volunteer hours reporting9 votesCompleted Sep 2019.
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