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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Better Track "Guest Groups" in Lodge Rosters GH2289
Add a “Guest of” column to the on-screen lodge rosters and their download, so we know who’s with who.
9 votesOct 2017.
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add scramble category
At the scramble summit, there was unanimous desire to be able to tag a scramble as rock or snow. I gave two suggestions and they didn’t seem to have a strong opinion one way or another.
First: since Winter Scramble is under difficulty, just add Rock Scramble and Snow Scramble. They liked the simplicity of this and that if something is rock/snow you can just tag something as both. They did feel like its not truly a “difficulty” rating, so logically it doesn’t make a lot of sense under difficulty.
Second: Add a “scrambling category”. The benefit here is that…
9 votesThis is easy to do using “Rock Scramble” and “Snow Scramble” in the Difficulty field like we do "Basic Rock Climb and “Basic Glacier Climb.”
We just need volunteers to add these to our scramble Routes & Places. Please send an email to info@mountaineers.org if you are interested in helping. Thanks!
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Display trail or route on route/place map GH2019
While it would be a lot of work to populate initially, the question was raised at our committee meeting whether the map for a route/place could actually show the route, rather than just the start and end points. This could come from either a GPS track or from tracing it out on a map. Alternatively, there could be a place, like a "Materials" folder and tab for each route/place, where we could upload a GPX file with the route.
9 votesWe added the capability to add a “Resources” folder and tab to our Routes & Places. I will work with Peter Hendrickson on the process for creating these folders and adding materials.
Here’s an example: https://www.mountaineers.org/explore/routes-places/sam-hill
We’ve also got a blog about this: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/coming-soon-enhanced-trip-navigation-resources
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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.
9 votesThis is now live on production! Activity/course leaders can now select for coleaders/mentors to be notified of roster changes in addition to the primary leader.
For activities, these notifications would go to coleaders/mentors.
For courses, these notifications would go to the other 'leaders' on the course (beyond the course primary leader).
The checkbox can be found under the 'Registration' section as shown in the attached image.
To keep up to date on website changes, check out our Technology Changelog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/technology-changelog
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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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Have an option to display Learn items and Explore activities in one screen SD360
If I want to see everything going on at all branches for both Explore (activities) and and Learn (courses/clinics/events) in (for example) Sea Kayaking there is not a straight forward way of doing this. I want to look ahead and decide what in the Sea Kayaking world I might like to do and have it all listed chronologically.
9 votesWe just launched all of these changes:
As part of “single activity courses,” we now show the new “single activity courses” in both Find Activities and Find Course, Clinics and Seminars.
We have improved the site-wide search where one can find any kind of content and be able to filter that search on the type of content desire (e.g. activities, courses and/or events).
More info about Single Activity Courses
http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/6836270-create-a-new-course-content-type-better-suited-forMore info about Site Search Improvements
http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/7053736-improve-site-wide-search-sd360Also visit thew blog for these updates:
https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/2-5-seminars-clinics-search-youth -
Activity Feedback Chart Color Scheme
Feedback Color Coding. The colors used for a Great Trip (RED) to Terrible Trip (Green) seem backwards to me, and should be in reverse order to the way they are now. Red usually means there's something wrong and green usually means everything's great Go.
8 votesHello Don -
Thank you for submitting your idea and bringing this to our attention! The colors are assigned in the order of the response options. For example, response option #1 was set to red, option #2 set to yellow, etc. However, I agree that for our survey responses that are yes/no or some sort of grade typically start with the positive choice. That said, we have changed the colors associated to the response options to make it match our branding and seem less like a color grading scale.
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Keep a Waitlist for Lodge Stays SD671/555/560
Waitlists for lodge stays are complicated and challenging both because of the potential for one person to make a reservation for multiple people and the number of nights for which they may wish register.
It may be best to keep a waitlist "separate" from the roster for each lodge stay and automatically email the entire list if any amount of availability opens. Then it's back to a first come, first served basis. This is a "notify me if space becomes available" rather than our "traditional" waitlist functionality.
8 votesThis idea is now live on the website! As mentioned in the earlier comments, we decided to proceed with a Notification List process vs. a Waitlist. This optional feature will notify anyone who signs up via email if availability opens up for the lodge stay they are interested in. They can then reserve their spot on a first come first serve basis. The lodges were notified of this new optional feature with additional details shared on how it works and how to turn it on.
Stay up to date with the improvements and changes to our website and more here: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/technology-changelog
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Print Youth Program Forms SD647
We'd like to print the Youth Program Form(s) as we do for the Youth information Form(s) from the Youth Flag Report.
- We'd have two "print" buttons on the Youth Flag Report: "Print Youth Information Forms" and "Print Youth Program Forms"
- We'd use the same "line in the sand" (i.e. ~~~) to include only text/responses above the line for the program form(s) being printed.8 votesCompleted Jun 2019.
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Reclassify Snowshoe Routes and Trips Using New S/T Rating System ~WebsiteContent
This posting is the result of 1) a few years of cross-branch discussions among the Snowshoe Programs of the various branches, and 2) email discussions with the Program Center about how to go about changing the rating system used to classify Snowshoe trips. The feedback we received from the Program Center was that the correct way to document our request for changing the website was to post the changed to feedback.mountaineers.org.
The Snowshoe Programs of the various branches would like to change the way that Snowshoe Routes and Trips are rated so that each route/trip has a separate Strenuous and…
8 votesCompleted Nov 2021. The snowshoe Routes & Places, https://www.mountaineers.org/activities/routes-places#b_start=0&c4=Snowshoeing, were updated per the Snowshoe Clubwide Standard, https://www.mountaineers.org/about/vision-leadership/board-of-directors/clubwide-activity-standards/snowshoeing/view.
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Need Feedback Survey for Lodge Stays SD634
Right now there is no way for participants to submit feedback on their lodge stay. Create a web form survey like we do activities, courses, and events. On Mondays (or maybe Tuesdays to account for the holiday weekends), send a link to anyone who stayed at the lodge in the last seven days. Aggregate this feedback on the lodge pages.
8 votesCompleted Sep 2019.
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Add Emergency Contacts to Committee Rosters & Course Rosters GH1836
Currently, emergency contacts can be viewed / printed for Activity Rosters, but not Committee Rosters or Course Rosters. This creates a shortcoming in safety preparation for course field trips, as there is not a reliable means of having emergency contact info available for students & instructors participating at field trips. Would seemingly be a relatively easy fix to make Committee & Course Rosters function similar to Activity Rosters.
8 votesCompleted May 2016.
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Track Leaders, Instructors and Members better on Committee Rosters including Automatically Assigning Leader Badges SD134/SD580
Right now you are added as a leader to a committee and Member Services gets an email notification that requires them to add the badge. Leader web rights however are instantly granted with the addition to the roster.
Expiration dates for each, automatic leader/instructor badge assignment/removal, roster removal if none remain. Add committee member checkbox. Bulk update tools for managing roles/expiration dates. Determine what an instructor really is.
8 votesWe added fields for tracking committee member, leader and instructor expiration dates, and automatically assign or remove the leader badge specified on the committee.
Additional details were sent to committee chairs on Nov 20. See the tech blog post, https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/2-9-many-small-improvements, for more info.
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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?
8 votesBased 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!!
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Align Badge Graphics
As a UX design choice the badges currently sit above the bottom-aligned text of the badge description on User Profiles. This results in a disjointed misalignment of the badge graphic, which is very noticeable when there are more than a few grouped together, and appears distracting and unprofessional.
Option 1: align them by the top of the graphic border, as the size is standardized. This benefits readability by coincidentally aligning the top of the title text as well.
Option 2: place the aligned text at the top of the badge instead and keep the current alignment with text.
Option 2…
7 votesThis idea is complete! The badges are now aligned starting at the top within a person's profile.
To stay up to date on any website changes, feel free to visit https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/technology-changelog.
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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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Make Date/Time Calendar widget a consistent format GH3662
Across the site I have discovered that the date/time calendar widget is not in the same format (some have Saturday/Sunday at the beginning/end of the week; others have Sat/Sun at the end of the week). In general this is fine, but when you're adding LOTS of activities for entire program year it's significantly more time consuming because you have to pay closer attention to which day you are clicking. And, there's a higher likelihood of choosing the wrong date because visually it is in a different location on each calendar widget. It would be preferred if all calendar widgets had…
7 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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Add Last Activity Led Date Field to Committee Roster SD597
This would help with committee roster management bay making it easier to find inactive leaders.
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Remove "Getting Started Series" from the Activity Leader Rating GH2781
It's confusing to see "Getting Started Series" in the activity search results as an option when we no longer have a formal "Getting Started Series" program.
7 votesComplete Jun 2022. We removed the "For Beginners (Getting Started Series)" item from the Leader Rating List. Future activities with this rating were changed to "Casual."
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Please create two "outdoor leadership" activity types ~Salesforce
In order to track what the mountaineers does in terms of outdoor leadership, we would like two activity types:
Leader Development - Leadership Skills
Leader Development - Technical SkillsBelow is the email thread for background:
Here’s a really quick stab at some language, for nothing else than to give us something to edit:Leadership Skills
- May or may not be activity-specific.
- May or may not have a focus on outdoor leadership.- Emphasis on facilitation, instruction, and/or group leadership.
Technical Skills
- Activity-specific.
- Skill development in activity that this person leads or aspires to lead. (Not…7 votesCompleted Feb 2019
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