General Feedback
This forum is for you to share ideas and exchange feedback with Mountaineers members, guests, volunteers, and leadership. You may vote for or comment on any idea and will be notified of its status changes. Your feedback helps us prioritize projects and improvements for our organization.
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Make separate feedback form for instructors at field trips GH1865
Feedback form is identical for both participants and instructors at a field trip - the questions should be tailored differently.
19 votesWe had a separate instructor feedback form for course listings only and now we have a separate form for instructors at field trips rather than the same form as participants.
We are now gathering info about whether leaders felt prepared for their role in addition to the regular safety and curriculum feedback info.
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Create a course roster export that contains field trip and trip result statuses for all students and corresponding activities SD665
Have a roster download that not only shows whether the participants are signed up for the required field trips but also be able to see all the activities they are registered for to ensure that snowshoe students are getting their snowshoes, climbers are getting on climbs and kayakers are getting registered for kayak trips.
This allows leaders to pre-emptively catch students who may be behind or not registered and send them an email ahead of time instead of struggling to get makes ups scheduled.
It would also be good to see everyone who got marked as Needs Improvement/Failed in one…
17 votesCompleted Jun 2019.
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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.
17 votesWe 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
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Integrate mountaineers.org Website and Learning Management System (LMS, aka eLearning) SD636++
Integrate the Learning Management System (LMS, aka eLearning) with our website so that when people are added to a roster in they are added in the LMS and receive appropriate course materials.
15 votesThis was completed as part of tech improvement 4.5 - https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/tech-update-4-5-bulk-roster-updates-practice-sessions-site-search-and-more
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Provide more detail for course-related activities in 'Manage Registration' signup box
Right now when you click on Manage Registration for a course related activity all you can see in the signup box is the name of the activity, the date, and a Request Leader Permission link. We have different mentors posting these activities for their students but the leader of the activity isn't visible in the signup box (plus the formatting is terrible). The students have to flip back and forth between the activity listing imbedded in the course and the Manage Registration box to know who they're signing up with. Would be great to have everything that a student might…
14 votesHello All -
This idea has been completed and is now live on the website! The leader of an activity and a link to their profile is now present for each activity listing on the course registration pop-up to assist students in their selection process.
https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/technology-changelog
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Course-Activity Late Cancellation Management
We have noticed that students are able to cancel from course-related activities after registration has closed. Some volunteers have requested a website improvement that would either prevent cancellations after registration date is closed, or better allow volunteers to manage this process. No-shows and late-cancellations have a big impact on volunteers' ability to successfully run programs.
Our tech team identified that the ability to cancel after registration closes is not a glitch, but rather, has always been the way the website has operated. Currently roster email notifications can be used to manage when students cancel from an activity roster, but this…
12 votesThis idea has been completed! Course participants will no longer be able to update their checkbox (and uncheck) after registration is closed. The checkbox will freeze as-is and become grey. If a participant needs to cancel, they must follow standard practices of reaching out to the leader directly.
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Display co-requisite badge status on course roster
As a course administrator, it becomes difficult to manage and check on every individual's requirements to be met for the graduation needs of the respective course. When courses require co-requisite badges in order to graduate, display the course roster with additional columns stating when the respective badge was awarded to an individual for each co-requisite badge. This will immensely improve the process for course administrators to check on verifying individuals' records before graduating them. Also, providing a great tracking tool to follow up on individuals needing more help with courses and such.
7 votesThis idea is being marked as complete given the positive process and feedback from the pilot of the new Course Management Tool (CMT). To learn more about this tool, visit this blog!
We hope the CMT will not only help reduce course administrative efforts, but also support succession planning, with the default template being owned and maintained by The Mountaineers Technology staff. Once the CMT pilot wraps up this spring, we plan to onboard more complex courses to the tool and continue expanding as capacity allows. This includes conditioning courses, courses with multiple co-requisites, or courses with many trip/lecture requirements.
If you have any questions or want to be notified when more courses are being onboarded, reach out to Devin at devinl@mountaineers.org.
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Course-to-Activity Roster Management SD440
Allow an activity roster to be populated from a course roster. This will be helpful for our Summer Camps.
7 votesThe ability to auto-assign those who register for a course to required activities has been in production for a while. However, there have been cases where youth participants would end up on the course roster only. The route cause of this is due to the activity registration start datetime not matching the course registration start datetime. A more detailed email will be sent out to those who schedule youth activities - but if those datetimes line up then all who register for courses will be auto-enrolled in course activities.
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Allow application for course to be accessed even when registration is closed or hasnt opened GH2113
This is important for anything like basic climbing that has a longer application that they want people to be able to fill out ahead of time. Right now you can add the application to the course but it doesn't show in the portlet until registration opens.
7 votesPotential students will now see the info and link to the course application or that the course require leader’s permission even if the course is not yet open for registration.
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Organize course field trips in My Courses area better for admins/leaders GH1629/1645
In the My Courses area I currently see too many activities populating under the Courses I am leading and managing. Can we make the field trips,lectures, optional activities for that Course only show in one of these two ways
1) Only activities within the start and end date range of the course for which they are shown
2) Show first ten trips with a More link to show the rest.
3) any other ideas?
If we do number 1 would that make it so that participants who are in their second year unable to see the field trips they are…
7 votesYou can now toggle your courses in the My Courses area to show or hide the course related activities. Please note that you can also search for courses with the date range above.
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Add Ability to Grant Badges to Instructors from Course Activities SD657
Add the ability to add badges to instructors for successfully completing instructing at a course activity, where the badges are different from those that are awarded to participants.
7 votesCompleted Jun 2018.
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Course-Related Activities website architecture change
Summary:
Course-Related Activities need to be connected with the pertinent Course offering. (i.e. Course-Related Activities should NOT be connected to the generic Course Template and thereby connected to all offerings of Courses based on that Template).Detail:
With the current setup, the process for creating an instance of a Course is to start with the pertinent Course Template. The Course is then filled out with more detail by creating Course-Related Activities (such as lectures, field trips, etc), which are at specific locations at specific dates / times.
It is important for each unique offering of a Course to have its…
6 votesWe had a chance to discuss our course architecture in depth on June 9 in Everett and how to best utilize the structure we have to avoid almost all of the problems listed in this thread. The one item we are working on for fall is having a single seminar style course type which is much more activity like in nature but has an instructional component to handle special instructor clinics and workshops that we often offer in The Mountaineers. We hope to meet again with Everett leaders in the fall to help schedule courses and make sure that everyone understands the most efficient way to set up and manage courses and the activities that go with them.
If you’d like to know more about or comment on the single activity course please comment here: http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/6836270-create-a-new-course-content-type-better-suited-for
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Add the Registration Date/Time to the Course Registration Edit Form GH1965
Add the Registration Date/Time to the course registration modal dialog and only show it to site admins so that we can have more flexibility in making waitlist and other roster adjustments to course like we do for activities.
5 votesJan 2017
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Practice Sessions
In order to accommodate activities that are not trips and not instructional in nature, we would like to create a category called "practice sessions" that function exactly like clinics. Currently, these would be used to house pool practice sessions (currently listed as clinics) and open climb nights (currently listed as events and therefore we aren't requiring online waivers or QYL for youth to come). We (Sara, Becca, Tess) think that this could potentially require very little development and have a positive impact across the organization. I'm happy to chat more about it!
4 votesThis was completed as part of the website 4.5 upgrade in February 2024. https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/tech-update-4-5-bulk-roster-updates-practice-sessions-site-search-and-more.
Thank you for your patience and feedback.
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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…4 votesAssigning “earned” skill badges for successfully completing an activity. This will be most useful for stewardship activities and clinics and seminars.
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Add start month to automated year attached to courses etc
For courses and activities, the year auto-populates in the listing, but the accounting department needs the month to be part of that, otherwise they have to manually go into each listing to find out what month the course happens and where to book the revenue
3 votesCompleted Oct 2020. Adding the start date to the Salesforce report accenting uses to enter data into Acumatica is sufficient.
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Instructors for seminar/clinics GH2883
I just noticed there's no option for an "instructor" role in the seminar/clinic template. Can we add this? Seminars/clinics are often course-like in that they have instructors.
thanks!
3 votesCompleted Dec 2020.
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Course page not loading with high volume visitation, Speed GH2785
When course participants visit this page at the same time and try and click Manage Registration no one else can visit the course page. Specifically we had about 75 out of the 100 participants were online trying to sign up for their hikes at 9:00AM yesterday. We had 25 hikes that all went "live" for registration at 9:00 (these are our April CHS hikes). The offerings were split evenly -- 12 CHS1 hikes and 13 CHS2 hikes -- and, from what I can see, the participants were attempting to sign up for a real variety, not just 2 or 3…
3 votesWe’ve optimized the course page and manage course activity registration dialog, and added a sever that we can turn on as needed for times like these when there are many people registering for many course activities.
Oct 2018
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Student Enrollment Notifications for Leaders GH1869
Would like to request the ability to have notifications sent to leaders when students enroll in a course. This is particularly important for some of the ongoing course listings like Naturalist Study Group.
3 votesWhen you set up or edit a course, you can no request that notifications for roster changes (e.g. student registers, cancels or moves from waitlist), by checking the box for this.
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Make it so you can see leaders permission on course activities GH1675
When you sign up for course related activities you are doing it through the manage registration portal and there is no note showing that the leader asked for leaders permission.
3 votesCompleted April 2016. Now you can see leader’s permission via the Manage Registration dialogue box and on the course requirements tab along with links to get you to the form to request permission.
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