Create functionality that allows the use of course pages to assign badges to students opting for the modular route w/ other system org wide
As courses create a modularized option (such as Basic Alpine), and where course and committee leaders use course pages as a way to easily assign badges to students that complete all of the requirements, a way to catch or exclude repeated rosters and data points across all of our systems and for the organization as a whole is needed.
Course leaders have requested the use of course pages as a way to more easily and efficiently assign badges themselves instead of the need to pass off to staff. However, this could create duplicate data points in our integrated software services such as salesforce. Strategies to help keep data and information tidy over time would be helpful for administrative, management, resource allocation, committee, and executive leadership decisions.
Chad Arveson
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This is really about our report and dashboard statistics. Assigning a course badge via equivalency or by having completed other courses or activities that lead to the requisite skills can be done in a few ways. There is some concern that having “extra” courses to assign these badges will skew our statistics. We need to determine whether this is a real concern worth addressing and, if so, how best to do that.
I think we’re ok from a participant perspective, because we have the “Equivalency Candidate” and “Equivalent” roles for course participants to use as filters in reports. For the courses themselves, I propose we add these two fields to the Course Template and Course objects, respectively:
Course Template:
[ ] For equivalency and modular courses
Check this box if this course template is for courses that you’re adding to assign badges to those who successfully complete an equivalency process or have attained the requirements of a course badge through other courses, activities, or badges (e.g. a few course badges or several skill badges).Course:
[ ] For equivalency and modular courses
Check this box if this course is for assigning badges for those who successfully complete an equivalency process or have attained the requirements of a course badge through other courses, activities or badges (e.g. a few course badges or several skill badges).We would sync these new fields to Salesforce. And we’ll need to check the boxes on existing course templates and courses.
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This is really about our report and dashboard statistics. Assigning a course badge via equivalency or by having completed other courses or activities that lead the requisite skills can done in a few ways. There is some concern that having “extra” courses to assign these badges will skew our statistics. We need to determine whether this is a real concern worth addressing and, if so, how best to do that.