System-Wide Update

• Hours Driven changed to Miles Driven throughout the Volunteer Portal.

Submit Activity Form

• Activity Name/Date/Time now carry over from Step 2 to Step 3.
• Categories are available for MG Activities
• Categories & Topics available for MWS Activities
• Continuing Education Hours are now separated from Volunteer Hours

My Feed on Dashboard Page

• Activity Feed is being filtered based on current enrollments (currently being tested).

Opportunities/Occurrences

• Auto-approval has been activated, so volunteer opportunities and occurrences do not need to wait to be approved.

Chat

• Chat feature has been temporarily disabled. Filtering of contacts for volunteers were showing all volunteers, not within the user purview of county/program enrollments.

Submit Activity Form

• Removed requirement for topic

Volunteer Opportunities (Volunteer Portal)

• Renamed and updated page title and metadata on calendars to remove Master Gardener specific references as to not alienate Master Watershed Volunteers
  • Example: Master Gardener Volunteer Opportunities is now Extension Volunteer Opportunities or simply Volunteer Opportunities.

Volunteer Opportunities (Sharing Portal)

• New volunteer opportunities set to auto approve(testing).
  • Future: Looking at setting up approvals based on role:
    • County administrators -> Auto approve
    • Volunteer Leader -> County Administrator Approval Needed
• Create a new volunteer opportunity now has additional options:
  • Upload Image thumbnail (Not shown on day-of-the-month calendar views)
  • Primary Impact Area field removed
  • Registration Start Date added – This is an optional field that allows volunteers to only sign up after the date specified.
• Create new location
  • Location name added (not required)
  • Location Type added (required) – This will toggle if this is an in-person or virtual event. Virtual events remove the requirements for street, city, state, postal code

Organizations Added:

• Added “Statewide Master Watershed Stewards” and provided access to MWS state admins
  • Note: Master Gardeners statewide program is currently labeled “State Program.” A support ticket is pending to rename to Statewide Master Gardeners

Activity Feed:

• Admins can now post “Resource” activity types

Data Administration

• Pilot county administrators access granted to appropriate counties and programs
• Community managers access granted to all counties and programs
• Added Connections(Enrollments) to appropriate counties to where a pilot user has not submitted activity to their designated county for the current program year

My Enrollments

• Only Showing current program year on volunteer dashboard

My Activities

• Added all historic enrollments at the bottom of the page
• Fixed Past Activities pagination
• Fixed Past Activities sorting – Activity Date in Descending Order