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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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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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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"Subscribing To" or "Liking" a Newly Posted Activity To Receive Updates About It
The activity email notification is great but often times it notifies me of activities that have been posted but are not open for registration.
It would be great if I, as a hopeful participant, am notified about an activity I'd like to register for at some point. If I could "like it" or show interest by "subscribing" to the activity that way I can get updates if anything changes regarding the activity (e.g., roster fills, registration date changes, trip cancelled, etc.). The number of "likes" or "subscribers" could be visible on the activity page to notify other participants of levels…
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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…
5 votes -
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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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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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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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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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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Show leader notes again when requesting leader permission
Many times, people don't read leader notes when requesting leader permission.
Perhaps the leader notes could be shown again when requesting leader permission to ensure that people read them.
The leader notes may contain additional pertinent information about the activity which participants should consider when requesting permission, or may contain specific requests for information, so requests missing this information end up being incomplete.
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Leader permission requests should go to co-leaders and mentored leaders as well
Currently, even if an activity with leader permission has a co-leader who is an admin and a contact, that person does not receive leader permission request emails.
The same would apply for mentored leaders.
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Rate Hike Preferences
I get daily emails describing upcoming Mountaineers hikes but for the most part they are too challenging or too long for me. I joined GoHike this year to find out about shorter hikes. I prefer hikes that are less than 10 miles. I think if would be great to be able to choose in preferences: Hikes less than 10 miles or Hikes greater than 10 miles/ strenuous.
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Notifications based on saved searches
The current method of defining notifications is basic and, simply put, inflexible. It is possible to get notifications based on varies high level criteria (e.g. branch, activity type) but that doesn't mean that the notifications will be meaningful since there are many criteria that can be filtered on in the activity search. It should be possible to create search criteria and save those such that you're notified any activity that matches that criteria. This would save people time by since they won't need to manually filter the activities in the notifications based on this additional criteria.
This would supercede https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/49808195-alerts-notifications-preferences-for-audience…
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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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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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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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2 votes
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