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make maximum wind, waves, and current required fields for Sea Kayaking activities
Sea Kayaking activities have fields for maximum wind, waves, and current. Currently these are optional. Because they are optional, some leaders do not fill them in. This omits critical information about how difficult a trip may be. Leaders should think about and enter specific values for each these. Making them required will enforce good practice.
At the 2025 Sea Kayak Summit, we voted to make these fields required, if it was technically possible. This is the request to do so.
10 votesHello All -
I see here that this idea was voted/agreed upon during the Kayak Summit so will proceed with exploring how we can meet the need! We do not currently have a way of setting certain fields within an activity to be required for some activity types versus others. This type of logic would have to be build and hardcoded which would require development hours now and each time it changed. I am hesitant to build this complexity into our current process as it could be difficult to manage if we build similar functionality for each activity type. That said, I do think there are smaller development changes that we could do that would highlight when Kayak leaders do not follow the guidelines set by the committee for trip postings. Would the committee be open to exploring how we could use automated email notifications that would email the primary…
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Create "add to calendar" link in registration confirmation email
A link for iCal or google calendar so that when registrants get a confirmation email they can immediately put it on their personal calendar. Primarily thinking about events, but would be great for trips too!
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Alerts & Notifications for Events
Create a notification alert option for events, similar to alerts for courses or activities.
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Include Badges in the Committee Roster Downloads
Please include awarded badges in committee roster downloads as well. Currently, they are only visible when viewing the committee roster. Adding them to the download would prevent committees (like the Climbing Committee with its many leader badges) from having to duplicate this information in the notes section, resulting in a cleaner look and less manual work.
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Allow Course Leaders/Admins to Edit Participant's Registration Datetime
Today, Leaders can edit the registration datetime for their Activities. This allows them to manage the waitlist order by changing the dates as needed. This idea is to allow the same functionality for Courses.
Added by Devin for Annora Ayer
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Allow leaders to set a later opening date for instructor/assistant sign up
Allow activity leaders to set a later opening date for instructor/assistant leader sign up for an activity. Right now, you can only set a registration date for participants. Instructor opening date is automatically open as soon as the activity is on the website. This allows instructors/assistant leaders to sign up for activities potentially before the leader is ready for sign ups -- for instance, while a course is in the unpublished status, or when an activity is a backup date that the leader might not want to fill until the originally scheduled date is canceled. It would be better in…
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Allow setting start and end times, not just dates
Currently, when an activity is created, you can put either one or multiple days, but cannot select the times. This is fine for hikes, which can have the date and time listed in the notes, but for meetings at the Program Center or other course activities that have multiple activities in one day, it would be beneficial to be able to set the timing for the activity as well.
This could possibly also solve the problem of someone being unable to join a short hike in the morning of the same day that they have a zoom meeting at 7pm…
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Provide more clarity or even a link to let students manage their registration from the course activity page itself
Currently the text under register participant banner is clear but I keep getting emails from students on trying to not able to know the steps on how to manage their registration for course activities.
Suggestion:
(1) Add language more clearly on the steps to follow after visiting the course page such as clicking "Manage Registration" OR
(2) If possible, have the link to manage course registration available on all course activities.2 votesHello KD/Lynn -
We are unable to link the course registration popup directly on the activity - but we can update the language/information provided on the activity registration notice to make it clearer for students. Do you have any suggestions based on what you have heard from students? I think having the action (visit the course page) clearer with either the link there or a button would help ensure people know to follow the link presented to the course page. Thoughts?
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Move Link to Request Leadership Permission Above Checkbox
When an activity has Leadership Permission Required, the link to the application is at the end of the checkbox. The ask is to move this link to above the checkbox (or at least the first think in the statement) to make it clearer to students where the application link is.
Submitted by KD.
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Add LinkedIn to Website Footer
The content & community engagement team would like to add a LinkedIn logo and link to the Mountaineers Programs Footer. This should not be applied to the Mountaineers Books Footer.
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Improve Functionality for Overlapping Enrollment Badges
Today, enrollment badges work as follows:
- When someone is added to a course with an "enrollment" badge - they are added to that badge's roster and the expiration date is set based on that course.
- If a student is added to a course with an enrollment badge that they already have - the badge's expiration date is updated to reflect whatever the newest course's expiration date is.
- Once a student completes a course, the enrollment badge is removed. It does not matter what course originally created the badge and/or what the expiration date.
It is uncommon for courses to share…
3 votesGiven it only impacts a few courses, this is not a high priority. However, if this is something we can easily accomplish or can be tied to another piece of work that is prioritized, it would be great to have this changed.
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Provide for small window of time for conflicting activities to allow member to choose between the two.
The problem I experienced was that I was interested in a particular activity. I figured it would be a popular activity so I wanted to register as soon as the registration opened. When I tried to do that, I noticed the registration window was greyed out and I saw a message that I had a conflicting activity scheduled. I quickly went back to my list of activities and cancelled the one in conflict which had a waitlist of about 5 but I was a confirmed participant (of the two, my preference would have been for the new activity). In the…
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Notify course participants when new field trip/lecture within the course is posted
Once a course is live, leaders can add new field trips and lectures to the course offering. However, participants are often unaware of these additions unless course or activity leaders notify them manually through email or other channels. The Youth Team is currently exploring solutions to automatically notify course students when new activities are added. This system could eventually be expanded to adult courses as well, reducing the administrative burden on leaders by ensuring participants are automatically informed via email.
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Alerts & Notifications Preferences for "Audience" Field
Members are able to setup alerts and notifications based on activity type (e.g. "day hiking"), branch, etc. It should be possible to configure notifications based on the audience (e.g. "adults", "20-30 somethings", etc.). This would allow for members to include notifications only for audiences they're interested in.
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Support markdown for formatting all input
The website currently uses a rich text to format all content on the website. This can be convenient for some but it can be frustrating and slow to work with. Markdown is easy to write and understand (https://www.markdownguide.org/). It has become a common option on many websites. Please consider supporting markdown as an option and let users specify it as their default preference so that they can use it without having to select it each time they want to post an activity/comment/etc.
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Allow markup formatting for Carpool Preferences notes
The Carpool Preferences widget provides a "notes" section which allows for free-form content to be provided by the users. This can provide useful information for other participants such as the type of car, passes you have, expected reimbursement rates, etc. A participant may organize this information so it's easily consumed by the reader. The problem is that the formatting is only preserved when viewing the "notes" section in the edit view. When a participant tries to read it, all formatting is removed (e.g. newlines are removed) which can make it very difficult to read the content. This undoes any attempt…
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Viewing profiles from roster on mobile
When clicking through a roster (roster section on the activity, not back-end roster manager) on mobile (android, Firefox or chrome browser), the profile display cuts off half of the profile, including the x button. I need to turn off rotation lock and rotate my display to close out (or hit "back" which takes me to the page I was on before the activity page).
1 voteHello Mckenzie -
Thank you for submitting this idea! You are correct that the user experience is poor for mobile when looking at profiles. I wanted to just call out how to exit that page in the current state so that you can use the work around until a change happens in experience. If you select anywhere on the screen that is not the pop up (grey areas) then the pop up will close. This is a workaround if you do not see the checkbox on your screen.
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Call-out when a Course Roster change was after registration in notifications
Currently, the course registration open and close dates are only stored on the website and not in Salesforce. This means we are unable to use this information to inform leaders/coleaders when an activity roster change happened AFTER registration closes.
If we stored this in Salesforce, we would be able to change the email notification to make this clearer to leaders.
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New Policy Rollout
Require that any new, approved policies include, as separate document, plan for implementation by volunteer leaders and name of person on staff who will be contact point for roll-out support.
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Make it possible to save trip postings in an iPhone without having to turn the phone sideways.
Here's another issue, albeit a small one. I can add folks to rosters with my iPhone but I have to turn the phone sideways to landscape mode in order for the Save button to respond. In other words, when the phone is vertical (in portrait mode) the save button does not respond to taps. Not the end of the world but seems odd.
1 vote
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