Badges / Benchmarks Improvements
Ali Pettigrew
Hi Wendy,
If the volunteers are not logging hours, how do you know they are participating actively? This will help me add a little detail to your request. Currently you can do a benchmark for specific user groups, this could be a way to make sure that there are benchmarks specific to each passage unless hours are not how you are tracking participation.
Thanks!
Ali
I have also mentioned in the past that ways to track volunteers who participate with different agencies (in my case passages) or doing different tasks would be helpful. I currently have a custom report I can pull, but there's no way for the volunteer to track their own participation in this way. We have an award for people who volunteer on all 43 passages - it would be helpful to be able to track that in the volunteer resume.
Hi Alayna,
Thank you for adding your support to this suggestion! I will make sure your support is noted.
Have a great day!
Autum
This would be useful for us as well since we reward our volunteers on different levels than what is displayed with the current benchmarks. I'm glad y'all are adding this to the list of enhancements. Thanks!
Eli Poulos
Hi Beth, thanks for reaching out. New and custom badges are on our list of enhancements, and I will be sure to bring them up in our enhancements meeting next week. I can't give you a date that these might be implemented, but I will make sure my team knows how important this request is to some of our admins.
Have a great day!
>>>I'll document your idea Beth and add it to our list for development.
Has there been any action on this? I really think this is something that would benefit a lot of sites.
Beth
Jacqui Henderson-Scott
Hi Laura,
Thank you for your question! At this time, Benchmarks can only be attributed to a volunteers hours. These Benchmarks can be set up site-wide or for individual user groups. If a volunteer participates in an Initiative, and there is a Benchmark set up for the site or their user group, then they will receive credit toward their benchmark when they record their hours. I hope this helps!
Cheers!
Jacqui
Are we still unable to tie a benchmark to an initiative?
Ali Pettigrew
Hi Beth and Molly,
What an interesting idea Beth! Molly, Beth is talking specifically about the Benchmarks feature. Being able to goal set a certain amount of hours and award a badge when a volunteer achieves those hours but having it be specific to an opportunity, initiative or qualification. Currently, you can either have a benchmark be general for everyone or tied to a specific user group. Would you want just the icon Molly or are you interested in the full functionality of benchmarks?
I'll document your idea Beth and add it to our list for development. Thanks for posting!
Ali
I like the idea of creating an icon that could be added to opportunities or organizations - is that a badge? It would be managed only by admin. This might help solve our problem of using initiatives for that very specific role now.
Beth Lester
I think badges are a wonderful way to motivate people and so I'd like to see more ways to use badges.
I think we should be able to create (and maybe even share!) new badge designs. I also would like to be able to tie badges into specific Initiatives or Opportunities, or Qualifications, with optional Hour and Date requirements, and even a manual badge option.
For example, these are the kind of badges I would like to be able to create:
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