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1. You can currently "offer" more spots than are actually available GH 1152/1188

   Fix course capacity so that you can only offer as many spots as are actually available for that course. Right now you can have 5 spots available but make an offer to 10 people on the waitlist.

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2. Add course template name to activity searches for field trips GH1142

   Add the course template name (essentially the course name with the year) to the activity search results so people can find the right field trip that they want to instruct at.

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3. Volunteer Recognition Badges ~WebsiteContent

   We have Super Volunteer and Key Leader Badges. What other ideas do you have for volunteer recognition badges? This input, combined with our current and future website abilities will help us make the best decisions as we develop ways to recognize the hard work that our volunteers do.

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   Cancelled  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

   We shoudl do this as a survey to our volunteers. It’s too hard to get responses for this kind of a question here.

4. Skill Badges SD312/313/415

   Skill Badges: Documents skills (not courses) Mountaineers members have gained through Mountaineers courses OR that have been demonstrated to and vetted by Mountaineers Leaders.

   How do skills interact with courses?
   
   • Students can see what skills a course teaches
   • Instructors can see what skills students have, and allow them to miss certain field trips if students already have those skills (at the instructor’s discretion)
   • Skill badges help expedite equivalency, or negate the need for equivalency.

   How do skills interact with trips?
   • Trips can add more detail to prerequisites. Students will be able to participate in Alpine Rock Climbs before completing the basic climbing course or the crevasse rescue portion of the basic climbing course because they will have met the rock prerequisites
   • Skill conditioners can add detail to prerequisites

   What will skill badges NOT do?
   • Skill badges will not automatically graduate a student from a course

   The idea behind skill badges is this
   • Prerequisites for both courses and activities will be able to use the “and/or” function. So, for example, a climb of The Tooth could have as prerequisites “(Basic Climbing Course) OR (Belay Skill AND Belay Escape Skill AND Snow Travel Skill AND Rappel Skill)”. A climb of Baker could have as prerequisites “(Basic Climbing Course) OR (Glacier Travel Course)”. This both
   o Reduces the risk of someone not qualified signing up for a trip
   o Increases the ability of qualified people to sign up for trips without extra work on the leader’s behalf
   o Allows specialty programs like the popular skill conditioners to ensure safe leadership because they require a unique combination of skills. More people would be able to list skill conditioners because they would not need to be hand-vetted by the leader
   • Skill badges can be set up to automate when someone finishes a field trip. This increases transparency and helps all instructors ensure student safety. For example, the Belay Escape Field Trip leader will go in and assign field trip results to participants. Those who are successful will receive the Belay Escape Badge. Those who aren’t will not receive the badge, and the instructor can put a note next to their name on the roster. This again, reduces the risk of students signing up for trips they aren’t qualified for, and it helps instructors track a student’s progress without relying on paper records. It also means that “Rescue Methods Skill” could be listed as a prerequisite for Rock 1 and 2 in intermediate, since it is a prereq. Leaders would no longer have to manually ensure that those who did not complete rescue methods aren’t signed up for Rock 1 & 2. Note: because course templates live in committees, this can be managed branch by branch.
   • As we look for innovative ways to connect our community to The Mountaineers, especially in light of the Seattle and Tacoma Climbing Committees’ recent investments in advanced training, external audits and new types of programs to meet the needs of gym climbers, it gives us new ways of tracking both student and leader skills. We can add advanced training badges from professional organizations (ie AMGA SPI)
   • Badges help people feel valued and valuable. When people feel valued and valuable, they are inspired to volunteer. Adding skill badges gives us an opportunity to increase levels of leadership, broaden the leadership funnel, develop new leaders, and offer professional development opportunities to existing leaders.
   • Skill badges will not take the place of a course. I think everyone recognizes that in many situations, the sum of the parts does not equal the whole. Skill badges will not automate equivalency. One of the things that maintains the quality of our programs is the personalization of them – the opportunity for instructors to personally evaluate students, and for peers and leaders to evaluate future leader candidates. The idea is not to turn our organization into a list of skills. It is simply to create better, more reliable and more versatile tracking systems. We will still need course leaders to go in and graduate each of their students. There will still be plenty of opportunity for branches to personalize their courses – much like what currently happens with first aid.

   Skill Badges: Documents skills (not courses) Mountaineers members have gained through Mountaineers courses OR that have been demonstrated to and vetted by Mountaineers Leaders.

   How do skills interact with courses?
   
   • Students can see what skills a course teaches
   • Instructors can see what skills students have, and allow them to miss certain field trips if students already have those skills (at the instructor’s discretion)
   • Skill badges help expedite equivalency, or negate the need for equivalency.

   How do skills interact with trips?
   • Trips can add more detail to prerequisites. Students will be able to participate in Alpine Rock… more

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   Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

   Assigning “earned” skill badges for successfully completing an activity. This will be most useful for stewardship activities and clinics and seminars.

5. Improve Drill Down Navigation in Left Side Bar

   I waste a lot of time navigating up and down the hierarchy page-by-page. Certainly, the breadcrumbs and the navigation tree in the left side bar are a great help for more effecient navigation.

   Unfortunately, the left sidebar is somewhat limited because at certain levels the expand/collapse arrows no longer work. For example,when you encounter "committees", you cannot drill down further. Instead, you must move your attention to the body of the page and choose a committee from there. Then the hierarchy in the side bar miraculously expands and you can continue drilling down from there. (Until you reach another committees container, of course).

   My suggestion is to fully enable the expand/collapse arrows in the left side bar so that they don't stop working at arbitrary levels.

   In conjunction with that, I would like My Profile to expand to My Committees and continue down from there. That way, I can navigate from almost any page to any page in one step.

   I waste a lot of time navigating up and down the hierarchy page-by-page. Certainly, the breadcrumbs and the navigation tree in the left side bar are a great help for more effecient navigation.

   Unfortunately, the left sidebar is somewhat limited because at certain levels the expand/collapse arrows no longer work. For example,when you encounter "committees", you cannot drill down further. Instead, you must move your attention to the body of the page and choose a committee from there. Then the hierarchy in the side bar miraculously expands and you can continue drilling down from there. (Until you reach another committees… more

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   Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

   As you noted, one can now drill down at the committee level. We cannot do this for the branch “home page” because branches requested a home page style that did NOT include the left navigation panel. You do get the lefty navigation back once you’ve gone to the Branch News, Courses & Activities or About Us page.

6. Add a filter for Cancelled Activities on My Activities page GH1325

   Can we please get a sort or filter button on this page so that we don't have to view the canceled events?

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   Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

   Based on the original request and comments, we added “Show Canceled” checkbox, “Show waitlisted” checkbox and a date range filter. We did the same for the My Courses & Programs page. Go check it out!!

7. Add a photos tab to courses SD434

   Add a photos tab next to the course materials tab to show potential participants what they can expect in the course.

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8. Incorporate Peak Bagger into our Website
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   Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

   We recently added a “resources” capability to our Routes & Places. We can use it to add appropriate links to Peak Bagger. See the “Enhanced Trip Navigation Resources” blog post at https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/enhanced-trip-navigation-resources.

   We can also link to the Peak Bagger Club lists in our Award (aka Peak Pin) Badges at https://www.mountaineers.org/membership/badges/award-badges/all.

9. Create Volunteering "interests and skills" checklists SD187/188/189/283/317

   One of the quickest ways to match organization needs with membership talent is to identify what skills are needed and what skills potential volunteers are willing to offer. When such postings are put on the website on the "Get Involved as a Volunteer" webpage (https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteers/get-involved-as-a-volunteer), we have YET not to have someone come forward and offer to help out. If your profile page allowed you to report your interests and skills, The Mountaineers could more specifically target recruitment efforts to people who are most likely to like the work being offered. It's a fundamental part of ensuring that volunteer-driven organizations keep their "labor" pool fresh and excited - by creating work volunteers WANT to do.

   One of the quickest ways to match organization needs with membership talent is to identify what skills are needed and what skills potential volunteers are willing to offer. When such postings are put on the website on the "Get Involved as a Volunteer" webpage (https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteers/get-involved-as-a-volunteer), we have YET not to have someone come forward and offer to help out. If your profile page allowed you to report your interests and skills, The Mountaineers could more specifically target recruitment efforts to people who are most likely to like the work being offered. It's a fundamental part of ensuring that… more

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   Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

   Check out the My Volunteer Profile tab from your account and My Profile link.

10. Improve Routes/places search results view GH1134

    Be able to view mileage, elev gain and difficulty in the search view.

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11. Allow new course templates to be created by leaders

    We can get this set up with an email notification system to member services to assure that the course is in compliance with Mountaineers course and activity policies and minimum standards.

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12. Preview Activity before saving

    There should be a way to preview an activity before submitting it. Currently one saves and then edits (submitted by Henry Romer during Focus Groups).

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    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    Leaders can change their trip to Private state which is a “review” state. When an activity is private it will still show up in a leader’s My Activities area but not in the search area for the general public.

    We chose to make activities automatically published because that is what most leaders requested, especially because you can specify open and close registration dates. And you can always go in and edit your activity.

13. Activity Rosters should divide instructors and participants GH 1124

    Please divide rosters for participants and instructors for activities and course related activities in the same way that courses are set up. The sort by feature is less helpful than seeing the clear division.

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    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    This has been completed.

14. Develop Member Dashboard

    Create a member dashboard that allows us to more easily track membership by type, branch, member interests etc.

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15. How about alpha sorting the Badges? Its a pain always to scan an unsorted group of data. Grouping badges on the My Profile page. GH 1127

    How about alpha sorting the Badges? Its a pain always to scan an unsorted group of data. Grouping badges on the My Profile page too. Group by type of badge (e.g. (course, skill, leader, award/peak pin) and then sort by name within that group.

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    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    Go check you My Profile page!

16. Avoiding duplicates in donor records and regular records SD322/347/348

    Need a way for donors who donate without logging in but do have an account to be linked to their other profile so we don't create unnecessary duplicate accounts. Ideally when you type in your email it would have a flag that says, this email is already in the system, do you want to log in and then make your donation" or something like that. There is also a nuance of donations not being lumped together by household when we would want one $500 donation by one member to be lumped with the $500 donation made by the spouse so the household would have Peak Society status.

    Also would like a flag when someone tries to create a new member record for an account that already has an email in our system with perhaps same last name.

    Need a way for donors who donate without logging in but do have an account to be linked to their other profile so we don't create unnecessary duplicate accounts. Ideally when you type in your email it would have a flag that says, this email is already in the system, do you want to log in and then make your donation" or something like that. There is also a nuance of donations not being lumped together by household when we would want one $500 donation by one member to be lumped with the $500 donation made by the spouse so… more

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    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    Completed website duplicate prevention Jun 2015.

    Completed Salesforce duplicate identification and began using dedup processes in Aug 2015.

17. Create a new course content type better suited for our single seminar courses SD296

    Create a type of content that is similar to courses but is more useful for the once a year, one-off seminars that we do. It would be connected to a route/place like activities but have course graduation function or the ability to add badges to it and mostly would be good for things like winter scramble seminars or pool sessions that are activities that have learning attached to them but aren't full fledged courses.

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    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    We just launched the new Seminars & Clinics (aka single activity courses) features. To learn more,

    visit our tech blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/2-5-seminars-clinics-search-youth

    or the Schedule a Course, Clinic or Seminar page: https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteers/leader-resources/schedule-a-course-clinic-or-seminar/schedule-a-course-clinic-or-seminar

18. Have Peak Society annual dues payment recorded as a donation GH1160/SD337

    Have Peak Society donations be recorded as donation rather than membership type purchase opportunity.

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19. Create a UI for staff to process membership dues

    Staff have a 21-step manual process for processing dues paid by check currently. We need a better user-interface and process for this system since a large portion of dues still come via snail mail.

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20. Fix Membership Join dates so they are not linked to other family members profiles

    Join dates were getting modified when membership types were being changed.

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    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    This has been fixed so they are no longer linked however we were not able to individually identify records where this has happened. Please contact member services at info@mountaineers.org if this happened to you so we can update your profile accordingly.