Thank you to everyone for the feedback on this idea. Your examples of how you track credits today shaped what we built first.
Continuing education tracking is in final testing, and the first release is coming soon.
In short: administrators will be able to record members' continuing education credits manually in WildApricot, and members will be able to see their own credits. These were the two most requested needs in this thread.
More specifically, here is what the first release will include.
For administrators: every credit in one place, on the contact's record
A new Continuing education tab on each contact record. You add credits there by hand, and can edit or delete them. This includes credits earned outside WildApricot and credits for non-members.
Each credit holds the activity, number of credits (decimals allowed), category, "valid since" date, optional expiration date and a certificate link.
Your own credit categories (for example Ethics, Technical skills), set up once in Global settings → Members → Continuing education.
Totals of valid credits for each contact, overall and by category. Expired credits are not included in the totals.
Export of a contact's credit records.
For members: their own standing, any time
A read-only Continuing education tab in the member's profile.
Members see their credits, status, total valid credits by category and links to their certificates.
Also in this release: connect your LMS and sell courses
Connect a third-party learning management system (LMS) to WildApricot through our new API. The integration covers the full course flow:
Sell your courses. Courses from your LMS are added automatically as products in your WildApricot online store, so you can sell them to your members. It's a new source of revenue for your association.
Give access on purchase. When a member buys a course, it's activated for them in your LMS.
Record credits on completion. When the member completes the course in your LMS, their credits are added to their Continuing education record in WildApricot automatically.
We’re aiming to release it by the end of the year. Dates may still move as we finish testing. We'll post here when it's live.
We'll work on other use cases from this thread in the following releases.
Thanks again for the feedback,
Gleb Kamenetsky
Thank you to everyone for the feedback on this idea. Your examples of how you track credits today shaped what we built first.
Continuing education tracking is in final testing, and the first release is coming soon.
In short: administrators will be able to record members' continuing education credits manually in WildApricot, and members will be able to see their own credits. These were the two most requested needs in this thread.
More specifically, here is what the first release will include.
For administrators: every credit in one place, on the contact's record
A new Continuing education tab on each contact record. You add credits there by hand, and can edit or delete them. This includes credits earned outside WildApricot and credits for non-members.
Each credit holds the activity, number of credits (decimals allowed), category, "valid since" date, optional expiration date and a certificate link.
Sorry if I don't understand and perhaps WA could enlighten us as too why this is so hard for WA to implement.
After reading WA forum comments from 2008 it just seems like WA really doesn't understand how desperately needed this important feature is to offer users and potential users.
This is the "work around" I presently use but it is of no help to our members because they can't see what I see. It also is very, very time consuming to provide this data to each member.
First I use the "checked in" button to indicate that a member qualified for the CEUs offered by the event. So perhaps the "Checked In" button could be titled "Attended" or perhaps a "Completed" button could be added?? Or maybe WA has a better idea.
Next, once an event is over, I change the event title from a "promo" name to a "CEU" name. For example, "4th Annual Educational Conference" became "Jan 17 2014 Conference 8CEU"
Now for the results: In admin view click on members and select a member. Then click on Events and you will see a list of all the events for which the member was "checked in", AND each event title provides the number of CEUs earned.
Now if WA would setup a way to print or export this data that would help a lot, but it would REALLY help if the same data could be seen, printed or exported by the member.
This may not solve everyone's frustration but maybe it will get others to make suggestions and most important for WA to provide a desperately needed improvement.
Larry Wasson
Sorry if I don't understand and perhaps WA could enlighten us as too why this is so hard for WA to implement.
After reading WA forum comments from 2008 it just seems like WA really doesn't understand how desperately needed this important feature is to offer users and potential users.
This is the "work around" I presently use but it is of no help to our members because they can't see what I see. It also is very, very time consuming to provide this data to each member.
First I use the "checked in" button to indicate that a member qualified for the CEUs offered by the event. So perhaps the "Checked In" button could be titled "Attended" or perhaps a "Completed" button could be added?? Or maybe WA has a better idea.
Next, once an event is over, I change the event title from a "promo" name to a "CEU" name. For example, "4th Annual Educational Conference" became "Jan 17 2014 Conference 8CEU"
Now for the results: In admin view click on members and select a member. Then click on Events and you will see a list of all the events for which the member was "checked in", AND each event title provides the number of CEUs earned.
Now if WA would setup a way to print or export this data that would help a lot, but it would REALLY help if the same data could be seen, printed or exported by the member.
This may not solve everyone's frustration but maybe it will get others to make suggestions and most important for WA to provide a desperately needed improvement.
Best Regards,
Larry Wasson