This could be a catch-all spot for new ideas that don't yet fit an established category. A good example is the Olympia Branch Gear Swap. It is desirable to run it as an Activity because: 1. The intent is to have sellers register and pay for tables. and 2. Folks have now been trained/accustomed to searching activities for things to do. Given the creative, entrepreneurial nature of members and branches, new ideas do come along and need an outlet, rather than be discouraged just because they are a square peg. Over time, examples that had persistence would become candidates for a new activity category.

At our 2014 cross-branch hike-backpack committee summit, the number one source of burnout and frustration among leaders was the difficulty in identifying participants who are capable of completing the posted itinerary vs. those who could derail the group. Recent website updates now allow activity leaders to record participant performance ratings when closing their activities, using a dropdown box with the following categories: Successful, Turned Around, Needs Improvement, Failed/Unsafe, NoShow, Waitlisted, Canceled. Then a future leader can use the website search to find a particular member they'd like to evaluate for an activity, open their profile, and look at their Activity History which will show these ratings for that member's past activities. The leader can also open the specific activity listing and find the contact information for the leader of that past activity in order to get in touch with them and find out more about the individual if they have a concern.

So out to all you leaders: what other functionality would you like to have to share information about participants? Are these appropriate categories for rating participant performance or would you like to see additional/different ones? How do we ensure that members aren't being 'black-listed' based on one or two bad days? Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

In the My Courses area I currently see too many activities populating under the Courses I am leading and managing. Can we make the field trips,lectures, optional activities for that Course only show in one of these two ways

1) Only activities within the start and end date range of the course for which they are shown

2) Show first ten trips with a More link to show the rest.

3) any other ideas?

If we do number 1 would that make it so that participants who are in their second year unable to see the field trips they are making up in their My Courses section, would they still show up in My Activities?

Submitting a room reservation for the Seattle Program Center is incredibly time consuming and there is a lot of room for error. For example, the calendar does not show which room is reserved, so you have to click on each event so you can see if the room you want is available. If you're looking for a room in a future month (which is often the case), each time you go back to the calendar, it defaults to the current month, so you then have to scroll again to the date you're looking for and click on the next event to see which room its in. If you forget to click "all events" on the side navigation first, or if you mess up the tag, then you risk submitting a request, thinking it was submitted but later learning that Shauna never received it. Also, all of the date drop-downs are time consuming - can we get rid of past years? The search function for "Seattle Program Center" makes it very difficult to find as well. All of the steps are time consuming, and there are a lot of steps and a lot of room for mistakes. It would be great to make all of this easier.

We've received a number of calls lately from folks who have a family membership. They go to add an adult family member, but get stuck when they are required to select whether 'I will manage the account for the youth' or 'the youth will manage their own profile, but I will sign their waiver and manage their account.' It is confusing that they have to choose one of these options when they are not adding a youth family member to their account.

I think changing the language to something like these two options would suffice to reduce confusion:
-This is a youth family member and I will manage their account.
-The adult or youth will manage their own profile. If it is a youth family member, I will sign their waiver and oversee their account.

Here is a screenshot of that Jeff created pointing out the field that should be changed:

Across the site I have discovered that the date/time calendar widget is not in the same format (some have Saturday/Sunday at the beginning/end of the week; others have Sat/Sun at the end of the week). In general this is fine, but when you're adding LOTS of activities for entire program year it's significantly more time consuming because you have to pay closer attention to which day you are clicking. And, there's a higher likelihood of choosing the wrong date because visually it is in a different location on each calendar widget. It would be preferred if all calendar widgets had Sunday at the beginning of the week and Saturday at the end, but consistency is the most important.

(1) Add a "More Info" or make it so that clicking on the "comment" in feedback takes the user to the "All" feedback page for the activity, course, event, or lodge stay from which that feedback originated.

(2) Add a "Download All | Download Selected" button to the bottom of the page that downloads a spreadsheet file with one sheet/tab for each feedback survey (e.g. Course Feedback, Field Trip, Lecture, Seminar, and Clinic Feedback, Trip Feedback, etc.). Each sheet will have meta data (e.g. title, dates) from the activity, course, event or lodge stay and then the feedback responses in the columns.

(1) Add filters for (a) Committee, a select list of on which the leader serves), and (b) Activity Type, a list of our activity types.

(2) Add a "More Info" or make it so that clicking on the "comment" in feedback takes the user to the "All" feedback page for the activity, course, event, or lodge stay from which that feedback originated.

(3) Add a "Download All | Download Selected" button to the bottom of the page that downloads a spreadsheet file with one sheet/tab for each feedback survey (e.g. Course Feedback, Field Trip, Lecture, Seminar, and Clinic Feedback, Trip Feedback, etc.). Each sheet will have meta data (e.g. title, dates) from the activity, course, event or lodge stay and then the feedback responses in the columns.