Some of us are wondering about a recent change on the web site. Activity rosters are no longer visible unless we're registered for that activity. Instead of displaying the roster, the web site now displays this text: " You must be registered for this activity to see the participants".

This obviously enhances privacy for those members who wish it, but it also reduces visibility for those members who use the visibility to hang out together on Mountaineers activities.

As you know, members already have the ability to mark their own profiles as private.

I'm wondering if this privacy setting could be factored into this policy change, i.e. Mountaineers members who have chosen to make their profile public could be visible on the rosters, and those who choose to have private profiles could show up as anonymous.

For most people, when they're deciding what they'll do on the weekend, the people they're doing it with is an important part of the decision.

Improve the search capabilities of the lookup field when you are using the "Add Person to Roster" field. Let’s say I’m looking at an activity and I want to add a person to the roster. I click the Roster option near the top of the window then click the button to add a person. A data entry form then appears. When I click in the name window the options for what I can type are extremely limited. If I type the name of a person the way they themselves have told me it is spelled, very often there is no match, even if I only type a fraction of the name. The lookup algorithm for that field seems to be very selective about how information can be entered. I find I have to abort the form, go back to the magnifying glass search function on the main website window, type in a fraction of the persons name, and then copy the spelling of the name from there. Then I go back to the roster form, click in the name field, past in the name I got from the magnifying glass search, and then I get a hit. It would be so much easier if the lookup in the form worked the same way the lookup with the magnifying glass worked.

Add specific date/time in offer email for the five-day cut-off. It currently says "5 days" but participants often want a specific time as to when they will be moved off.

This will help us better justify when a person is moved from the offered status and create more transparency in the process.

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Current Email:

Congratulations! You were on the waitlist for **ACTIVITY** to take place on **DATE**, and a spot has just opened up! You have five days from now to accept this offer.

If you would like to accept this offer, login to your account<http://www.mountaineers.org/profile>, and click on My Courses & Programs. Then select **ACTIVITY**. Once you are on the listing, click the green "Complete Registration" button - this will allow you to pay the course fee and secure your spot.

To accept this offer for your child please login to your account. Click on the round profile icon in the top right corner of your screen and scroll down to "Switch Account" to your child's name. Then if you are on a desktop device find the blue My Activities tab on the left hand side of their profile page. If navigating from a mobile device click on the blue bar with their name at the top of their profile and click My Courses & Programs. Then select **ACTIVITY**. Once you are on the program page, click the green "Complete Registration" button - this will allow you to pay the program fee and secure your spot.

If you are no longer interested in taking **ACTIVITY**, please click the Cancel Registration button or contact member services to cancel your registration. If you do not accept your offer, you will be cancelled automatically after five days.

The course roster can be improved with a new column to show status of the students and instructosr. Students start out as registered then progress to graduated, cancelled, failed, extended, etc. Instructors may also cancel, no show. Using the role column to carry that fact is not the best because then when the status changes we lose track of the actual role. For example, if the status changes to cancelled, we no longer know if the registration was for a student or an instructor.

By extension, this idea means that "graduated" is a status of the student role, not a role in it's own right. And "granted" is a status of the Equivalency Candidate role, not a role in it's own right.

Possibly the registration status column could be expanded for this purpose, but I really think that is a different fact and should be tracked separately.