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  1. Skill Badges SD312/313/415

    Skill Badges: Documents skills (not courses) Mountaineers members have gained through Mountaineers courses OR that have been demonstrated to and vetted by Mountaineers Leaders.

    How do skills interact with courses?

    • Students can see what skills a course teaches
    • Instructors can see what skills students have, and allow them to miss certain field trips if students already have those skills (at the instructor’s discretion)
    • Skill badges help expedite equivalency, or negate the need for equivalency.

    How do skills interact with trips?
    • Trips can add more detail to prerequisites. Students will be able to participate in Alpine Rock…

    4 votes

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    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    Assigning “earned” skill badges for successfully completing an activity. This will be most useful for stewardship activities and clinics and seminars.

  2. Allow new course templates to be created by leaders

    We can get this set up with an email notification system to member services to assure that the course is in compliance with Mountaineers course and activity policies and minimum standards.

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  3. Create a new course content type better suited for our single seminar courses SD296

    Create a type of content that is similar to courses but is more useful for the once a year, one-off seminars that we do. It would be connected to a route/place like activities but have course graduation function or the ability to add badges to it and mostly would be good for things like winter scramble seminars or pool sessions that are activities that have learning attached to them but aren't full fledged courses.

    17 votes

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  4. Fix Rolling Enrollment Date Structure

    Make sure that you can set up a course for rolling enrollment that then closes after the course end date so if you have 8 workshops under one course header for 2014 you can start over in 2015 with a new course and 8 new field trips that don't get rolled into one. This helps avoid huge course rosters to maintain.

    1 vote

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    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    Completed at the end of December 2015 thanks to testing from First Aid coordinator Mary Panza.

  5. Always list field trip locations in Course Activities GH1126

    For course activities, include the location even when there is only ONE location.

    Example: (1st FT listing is great, 2nd FT listings is poor)

    Crag Course FT 1
    Tieton River Sat, May 2
    Vantage Sun, May 2

    Crag Course FT 2, Sat, May23 - Sun May24
    (NO LOCATION LISTED. REQUEST LOCATION ALSO BE LISTED)

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  6. Give course leaders the ability to change pre-req badges GH1125

    Give course admins or course leaders the ability to change the course pre-reqs after the course is listed

    3 votes

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  7. When you mouse over a course-related activity have it show leader/summary SD412

    When I mouse over a course activity, display a "tool-tip/infotip/hint" containing the leaders name or the activity summary next to the cursor.

    2 votes

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    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    We added more information about lectures and field trip activities to the Course Requirements tab of the Course Details page. Information included title, activity dates, registration open/close dates, availability, and leader.

  8. Add AIARE Level 2 badge

    Add an AIARE Level 2 badge for instructors who have higher level avalanche training.

    3 votes

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  9. Registration Date/Time for Cancelled Students should change GH1755

    When someone drops from a course, update the registration date to reflect the date of cancellation. Currently the original registration date remains in that field. This makes is hard to track when individuals drop from the course.

    3 votes

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    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    This is very difficult to add to our website, so we now send this information to our or CRM, so that we can help as needed with refund processing and informing you of cancellation status. Please contact our Member Services Team at info@mountaineers.org, if you need any help with this.

  10. bulk course roster management

    Allow course admins to multi-select students for the purpose of mass cancellation/roster management. Note: the multi-select is already there, but I can't cancel/move all the selected registrants.

    2 votes

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    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    Completed 12/8/14. Look for the blue button at the bottom of the course roster that says “Change Role or Expiration” This is what you can use to bulk graduate people or bulk extend a student badge.

  11. Apply member discount to course fee if membership is in shopping cart

    It's giving me the non-member price for the course even though I have a membership in my shopping cart.

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  12. Improve Roster Functionality: Course Template Rosters

    Add pagination and search/filter features to allow for better handling of these large rosters so they can be a more useful instructor recruitment tool. Being able to filter by curren tmembers, roles, graduation dates before download.

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  13. Improve Skill Badge Assignment for Successful Activity Completion

    Allowing leaders to choose which skill badge(s) to assign when closing an activity better support activities where multiple skills are learned and our modularization efforts. Currently it's an "all or none" assignment.

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  15. Add to courses an "Instructor Capacity" to limit the number of instructors

    Courses currently have a "Student Capacity" to limit student enrollment but do not have an "Instructor Capacity" to limit instructor enrollment. This can create situations where too many instructors sign up, which in turn can create problems wherein too many instructors show up and have nothing to do, or can create create additional work for course leaders to reach out to instructors and ask them to cancel. Either way, it creates an awkward situation in an organization where we want to gratefully encourage as much volunteering as we can.

    Note that it is possible set limits on the number of…

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    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    The instructor slots for a course are designed to be a roll up of all instructors helping out with a course that has multiple field trips and lectures. I think it would be best to use our new single seminar and clinic functionality for activities like the backcountry snowshoeing skills instructor clinic. Listing as a clinic means you can designate the title to be whatever you want, have earned badges AND most importantly for you be able to designate how many instructor slots you want and participant slots.

    See example here: https://www.mountaineers.org/about/branches-committees/everett-branch/committees/everett-climbing/course-templates/intermediate-leading-on-rock-everett/activities/introductory-lecture-and-practical-mountaineers-seattle-program-center

    Once there is an activity template you can simply schedule like you would a snowshoe or hike.

    Learn how to schedule them here: https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteers/leader-resources/schedule-a-course-clinic-or-seminar/schedule-a-course-clinic-or-seminar#scheduleclinic

  16. Close registration for courses that were created before registration close date field existed GH 1148

    Is it possible to close registration for all courses that happened last year. The default when we added registration open and close dates to courses was to have them perpetually open which has meant we have had a handful of these incorrect sign ups.

    From Jeff- The best fix actually might be blocking registration for a course whose end date is in the past.

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