Best practice forum (Archived)

I agree, a notes field would be good, and let each organisation set according to their own needs. The key thing for our group would be that the notes could be included in the reporting. I'll check in with some of my local colleagues about how they manage that type of info and if they have any additional feedback I'll report back. Thanks! -Aja

From our perspective, it would be useful to have the following:

• A notes field next to each record with the possibility of using either a pre-defined drop-down of reasons or free text (but preference of free text rather than no field at all)
• The ability for course administrators to set a status of "withdrawn" and a reason rather than simply removing staff from a session (to mirror the functionality of users withdrawing themselves)
• A drop down of reasons for withdrawal when users withdraw themselves (with the option of allowing free text and making a reason mandatory of not)
• Ideally, ability to customise the statuses and associated grade at a site as well as activity level. This would obviously have implications for the completion criteria, not sure how that would be worked around, maybe a "any status providing 100%" as an option?

So, not much then!

Thanks for taking suggestions, even if people are going to ask for the world!

Dan

Hi,

Yes, from our perspective it would be good to have a status of both 'Excused No Show' & 'Unexcused No Show' both with the ability to add a reason against them and report by reason (preferably I'd like the reason to be a mandatory field but others may not feel the same way).

However it would also be really useful if we could have a free text field to use when the status is 'Booked' just to give us the option of adding extra detail to that particular booking if necessary.  This should not be a mandatory field but the ability to report by it is essential.

It would also be helpful if we could have a course or session Cancellation status which indicates that the course (or session) has been cancelled by the training department.

Thanks

Steph

Hi,

I know the adding a reportable free text field to cancellation records was discussed a while ago, and the enhancement filed, but is there any update as to its progress? I've just been asked again by our admin team whether this is likely to be in the next version of Totara because it would be very useful (and from the sound of it a fairly simple feature to implement).

Regards

Dan