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19 results found
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CHS course needs to be less restrictive
I strongly believe that the CHS course needs to loosen their restrictions on when certain requirements need to be completed. I completed my stewardship activity outside the specified time window but was told that it is too late for it to count for course completion. That keeps me from being able to participant in alumni activities. Isn't the whole purpose of the course to be encouraging, supportive, and get people outside? This course is doing the exact opposite by implementing these rigid requirements. You are making it harder to graduate from this course than to graduate from college!
1 voteHello Jennifer -
Appreciate you providing your feedback on your experience. For feedback on courses or activities, we provide an avenue for your input to go directly to the course leaders. To find the feedback link, you can follow the steps below.
1. Go to your profile.
2. Select "My Courses & Programs"
3. Select "Give" in the feedback column for that specific course.
This website is meant to gather ideas outside of specific courses/activities. That said, I am going to close this ticket, but will make sure to pass along your note above to the CHS committee.
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Show enrolled courses in course roster CSV export
As a course administrator, I often need to know if students are enrolled in their co-requisite courses so I can send them appropriate reminders. In some cases, such as scrambling, we actually bump students off the roster who don't have or enroll in Wilderness Navigation before the course starts.
With the course roster CSV export, I can determine if someone has already completed Navigation. However, there's no way for me to know if someone has is enrolled in the course without manually going to every student's profile and checking their course list. This is as abysmally slow as it sounds.
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1 voteHello Travis -
Based on the work we are doing in google sheets to come up with an easier way for course leaders to manage their roster, I am going to close this idea as our automated google sheet solution will better serve the overarching need of understanding student's co-requisite course status.
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Move the "Manage Registration" Button on Mobile View
It would be helpful for the 'Manage Registration' button to be moved to someplace more prominent for students registering with their mobile device. Right now it is at the bottom of the page which is confusing for students and often generates a lot of emails on registration days. Another solution might be to make the button appear on each activity page for students that are registered in a course. Right now its a maddening cycle of referring back to the course page because people can't figure out where the button is located.
2 votesThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. Our website is also not built in a way where it is easy to make changes just for mobile vs. desktop so it would unfortunately require more development than it would initially seem. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Closing canceled activities
I'm requesting that we change the way the website works for cancelled activities that were never open for registration. If I cancelled it I shouldn't have to close it too. Canceling should close it.
1 voteChanging from DECLINED to CLOSED to follow the improved and streamlined feedback status options: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Allow "Requested Info" field to be either required or optional during participant registration
Add the option to either the "Requested Info" is required or optional when a participant register an activity, clinic or seminar. Currently this field is optional and participant can still register if this field is not filled up.
This option should be applied where ever the "Requested Info" is available when the item is created or edited.0 votesThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Improve badge display sort on course view
I have a low priority website UI feature request. For courses which award multiple badges to graduates, it would be nice if the list of badges were sorted nicer. One sort method could be "Course badges first then Skill badges, and within those by alphabetical". Here's the 2020 Seattle Basic course as an example of messy badges...
https://www.mountaineers.org/locations-lodges/seattle-branch/committees/seattle-climbing-committee/course-templates/alpine-climbing-courses/basic-alpine-climbing-course/basic-alpine-climbing-course-seattle-2020thanks!
1 voteThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Improve Course Application Process GH2951
Improve the online forms so that applications can be housed on our website (which is ideal), with a prefilled field linking to a particular course, that the form builder creates. When the form is submitted, the applicant is automatically added to the "applied" roster, and the same process continues from there. This has the advantage of reducing admin burden, but it will require our online forms to be much easier to build so that our leaders will make applications in plone. Probably a much bigger project.
6 votesHello All -
I wanted to provide an update and context as to why this idea is closing. First, this solution would only work for some application processes. There are situations where applications are a common application is used across courses/branches which would make embedding the form and creating an 'applied' status very complicated.
Second, we are not currently looking to embed more forms into our website given its current state. The reporting and functionality around these forms is limited and it would take significant development to offer the functionality that volunteers have today within our third party survey tool Alchemer.
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Course Activity Data Export Improvement
Investigate alternatives for the Course Activities Export. It takes several minutes to get the datatables view, because there are often several thousand records associated with the request. There may be more, but few options are:
Check how much overhead there is in Diazo processing of the markup? Avoiding that may be one reason that converting the main course roster view to be React-based helped so much. If that's correct you could possibly load this part of the page in an iframe that bypasses Diazo.
A bit off the wall... After clicking the "download" button, display a message (in a popup?)…
2 votesThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. There is also work being done utilizing a salesforce connection to google sheets to improve course management (more to come...) which would solve for some of the pain points this task was hoping to solve. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Automatically Add Instructors to Committee Roster
When an person registers for or is registered for an activity as an Instructor, in addition to adding them to the course's team roster (if part of a course), add them as an Instructor to the sponsoring Committee's team roster as an instructor or check their instructor box if they are already on the Committee's team roster and their Instructor box is not already checked.
2 votesThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Add optional "Date to Assign Student Badge" for courses
Add an option under course settings for when the "Student Badge" is assigned. Currently it is assigned when someone registers. The issue is that Student Badges are used as prerequisites for trips. This means that as soon as someone registers for the Scramble class, the website will let them sign up for Scrambles. We should wait to assign the student badge until students are far enough through the course to actually go on trips.
I'm open to other suggestions on how to handle this, but delaying issuing the badge seems like a simple to implement method.
3 votesHello Brian -
Thank you for submitting your idea. This idea was reviewed, but is closing as there is quite a bit of development that would be required for this and even if the solution was built there will still be challenges with students and activities they should qualify for. There is not a great one size fits all solution for students in a given course as their range of past experiences and fitness levels may vary. As Travis mentioned below, there are a few options that can be used today to ensure a student is provided the badge when the course leaders feel that they have met a given 'student' status that I suggest you consider using to meet your need.
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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…
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Fade the badge image (but keep on profile) when a badge expires
Instead of removing the badge image from someone's profile when their badge expires, it would be nice to fade the image ... this would show that the badge is no longer current, but it would also provide a better snapshot "history" of that person's past participation.
2 votesThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Add Requested Info field to Courses GH2756
Add an additional field on courses that prompts students to provide info when signing up for a course. For summer camps this can allow us to collect T-shirt size or could be used for questions about kayak rentals for kayak students etc.
3 votesThis has been reviewed and is no longer needed.
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Show Events in a Course's "Course Requirements" Tab GH2827
We often have graduation celebrations at the end of a course. These are just events to which the committee, leaders, instructors, students, graduates and former graduates are invited to attend. It would be great if they could be RSVP-style events that appear in the course's "Course Requirements" tab. That would save having to "double list" by listing an activity that is really not needed an would also need to be closed.
Implementation Note: Add a field to the Event add/edit form to choose one or more Course Templates to list the event on courses within that template and where the…
2 votesThis idea has been reviewed but is closing as their is a sufficient work around being used (setting these types of gathering as 'Activities).
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Give notification to leader if posting course related activity outside course date range
Provide error message/notification if creating a course related activity that is outside of any course's current date range. I listed an optional lecture and it wouldn't show up in the course but I couldn't figure out why. Turns out it was after the original course listings end date.
1 voteThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Provide easy way to email participants based on their role
For large course field trips it is common for instructors and students to show up at different times, which means that instructors will usually carpool with other instructors, and students with other students. To set up those carpools it would be helpful if the "Email Participants" screen had a way to quickly select participants based on their role, i.e. all instructors, all students, all leaders. Yes, it's currently possible to use the per-person check boxes to this now, but some large field trips (Navigation, Snowshoe, Scramble) can have as many as 90 participants, so selecting them individually is tedious and…
1 voteThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Add a photos tab to courses SD434
Add a photos tab next to the course materials tab to show potential participants what they can expect in the course.
0 votesThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Allow seminars to be displayed on the home page with events
Right now, even if you add the Home Page tag to a seminar it still doesn't show up on the Home Page when upcoming activities are shown. This has meant that I have to create a duplicate of the seminar as an event to get it to show up. This is a lot of extra work. Can we please be allowed to add the Home Page tag to seminars and have them come up on the Home Page?
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Error Check for Instructor Requirement
Adding error check for adding and editing a course activity where instructors are needed but there is no instructor prerequisite badge will ensure that activities are set up correctly. This will ensure that members and guests who are qualified can register as an instructor and to be sure that only those who are qualified can register to be an instructor.
0 votesThis idea is closing as it did not reach enough votes/engagement over the past few years to be prioritized. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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