Feature Requests

The timeframe can be changed, but from my observations this would be a good balance to help us get rid of any drafted projects older than that while allowing us to reach out to and re-engage employers who haven't published yet.

To add the ability to schedule update posts directly on experience pages. By introducing a scheduling feature, we can set up customized update messages right when the experience is being created/finalized. This will ensure that updates are automated and sent out on time, eliminating the risk of missing or delaying important communications. Saves time by automating the posting process. Reduces dependency on external tools and manual reminders. Improves the consistency and reliability of communication.

I am working with the portal https://cavendish.riipen.com/portals/yDOpxwO5 , which represents two universities based in Africa—Cavendish University Uganda and Cavendish University Zambia. The platform currently requires specifying a single location. Since the universities are in two different countries, there is no option to input “Africa” as a broader location.Can we make a broader geographic identifiers such as “continent” (e.g., Africa) when specifying the location in portals, in addition to country-level options. As this portal represents multiple universities, can we allow for multiples include links so we can include links to both institutions’ websites directly on the profile. Currently, there is no functionality to support multiple institution links.

There are projects on the marketplace that practically fit the needs of arts and other majors e.g. English majors looking for communications, marketing, social sciences looking for community engagement, nonprofit organizational work. They don't have to be mutually exclusive, I was shown this layered wheel that a school uses to show project opportunities in different majors to help students and stakeholders see WIL as more equitable across the board. E.g. first layer of the wheel Arts --> Communications/Marketing/Grant Writing This will be easier to sell to the traditionally weaker Riipen subjects because we don't carry many "English projects" but English students want to do communications or marketing, and this will encourage them. It may also more easily capture programs

Presently if an employer has not accepted their portal invite there is a little envelope you can click to resend an invite to them. With learners, if something goes wrong or they do not receive their invite, we have to delete their invite and enter it again. Is there a way to add a similar feature and have a clickable envelope icon to resend an invite immediately?

Educator would like to be able to see on their profile for easy access a full list of all matched employers/projects they have worked with instead of having to go into each individual experience to find that info, Admin would be interested to have as a way to drill down in reporting to search by educator and see all the companies that educator has worked with

Similar to Gmail, the employer would like to be able to mark messages as unread. With having so many message in the message centre, it can get confusing and a user may want to go back at a later time to review the message.

As an educator, If I have a list of 15 pending match requests on my experience, I'd like to be able to denote some of them as favourites. This helps me categorize the ones I really like first and deal with them before actioning any other match requests. This may also be helpful if I have an assistant helping me parse through match requests. They can mark them as favourites and then I can check out those ones first. I wouldn't want the employer to know I've favorited any match requests.

Request from DM @ MacEwan U The institution’s portal currently allows a broad view of all experiences, but it would be beneficial if experiences could be filtered by specific educators. Having an “Educator” filter on the “Experiences” tab in the Portal content page would allow users to more easily identify which educator is responsible for each experience. Also helps DM search by Educators

Request coming from DM @MacEwan U Asked this question in the help channel. For context, MacEwan uses the new import feature to add employers to experiences directly. So sometime the employers may already have an account, some may not already. Some may not sign up to Riipen. Employers often have multiple supervisors overseeing different projects within an experience, which has created challenges in linking specific supervisors to their respective projects. Could a feature be added to assign individual supervisors to specific projects, especially when partners are imported or created in bulk? Additionally, it would be valuable to have an option to add new supervisors directly into the partner’s organization profile or attach them directly to an experience. This would simplify the setup process and ensure clear supervisor responsibilities across multiple projects.