Over the past years, we've received a number of requests regarding Individual Hours. While this feature was originally developed to allow volunteers to log personal hours not associated with need responses on a Connect platform, we realize that different clients wish to use individual hours in more structured and systematic ways. Below are a few suggestions we've gotten in the forums:
Ability to associate individual hours with an agency that is registered on the Connect site. This might happen if someone volunteers with a Connect site agency but the volunteer work isn't associated with a need that has been posted on the site.
A way for the designated contact person to approve individual hours. At this time, it is up to the site manager to reach out to the contact person (specified by the volunteer) to see if hours can be approved, and then to approve them from the site manager panel.
An automated notification for the the contact person, letting them know that individual hours have been submitted. This could be for informational purposes only, or it could be a kind of reminder to the contact person to approve the hours (or to reach out to the site manager so that the site manager can mark them as approved).
The purpose of this thread is to ask you--our clients--how you are using individual hours on your site, and what additional features or capabilities you'd like to have with individual hours. Please be specific; when we discuss enhancement requests, it's important that we can point to concrete examples, or use cases, showing how the added or revised feature would be helpful for clients. In addition, if you would like to chime in and expand on the items above, we encourage you to do that as well. Thanks!
Nina Rogers
Over the past years, we've received a number of requests regarding Individual Hours. While this feature was originally developed to allow volunteers to log personal hours not associated with need responses on a Connect platform, we realize that different clients wish to use individual hours in more structured and systematic ways. Below are a few suggestions we've gotten in the forums:
Ability to associate individual hours with an agency that is registered on the Connect site. This might happen if someone volunteers with a Connect site agency but the volunteer work isn't associated with a need that has been posted on the site.
A way for the designated contact person to approve individual hours. At this time, it is up to the site manager to reach out to the contact person (specified by the volunteer) to see if hours can be approved, and then to approve them from the site manager panel.
An automated notification for the the contact person, letting them know that individual hours have been submitted. This could be for informational purposes only, or it could be a kind of reminder to the contact person to approve the hours (or to reach out to the site manager so that the site manager can mark them as approved).
The purpose of this thread is to ask you--our clients--how you are using individual hours on your site, and what additional features or capabilities you'd like to have with individual hours. Please be specific; when we discuss enhancement requests, it's important that we can point to concrete examples, or use cases, showing how the added or revised feature would be helpful for clients. In addition, if you would like to chime in and expand on the items above, we encourage you to do that as well. Thanks!
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