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  1. 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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  2. Alerts & Notifications for Events

    Create a notification alert option for events, similar to alerts for courses or activities.

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  3. 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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  4. 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to sign up for activities potentially before the leader is ready for sign ups -- for instance, while a course is in the unpublished status, or when an activity is a backup date that the leader might not want to fill until the originally scheduled date is canceled.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…

    10 votes

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  5. 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…

    4 votes

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  6. Streamline New Field Trip Alerts with Automatic Emails for Youth Club Courses

    Youth Clubs staff would greatly benefit from removing a step in the field trip posting process (sending out multiple email blasts to a course roster). It would make life easier if the website sent an auto-email every time a new trip was posted within a course!

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  7. 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.

    3 votes

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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).

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    Hello 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.

  14. 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.

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  15. Filter activities based on single vs. multiple day activities (camping, overnights, etc.)

    Today, users have the ability to search courses, seminars, and clinics based on if they are a single day or multiple day experience. The ask is to have a similar filter for activities.

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  16. 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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  17. 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.

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  18. 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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  19. Self populating cell meet place and time

    Create a self populating cell that when you’re posting or developing your template for the activity, There’s usually several options to launch from, and the cell could populate on the condition when you select where you were going to launch from it tells you or populates the cell with the meeting place and have an option in the cell that allows for time inputs of meet time and launch time and maybe an option for pre-launch meeting time This would eliminate. This could eliminate the current meat, place and time box completely. Leader could have the notes in there and…

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  20. Add more details to Activity/Course alert emails

    When a new activity alert is sent, it would be good to include more details such as summary, leader notes and description. There are many trips that are for a specific audience and it becomes tiring to click on all the trips and get disappointed to not find a trip to register for. Even if we can add a summary to them (as we now see in the find activities page on the website), we at the committee level can ensure the leaders and important info in the summary, especially if the trip is restricted to a specific audience.

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