Student Voice

Submitting a new Idea / Petition to the Student Voice Module

The Student Voice Module is a simple tool to allow a wider student community to take part in democracy on an easy straightforward level, simply speaking it's split into two areas, Ideas and Petitions.

• Ideas are a submission a user can make, that users can 'Like', 'Dislike', and Comment On. The initial submission is given a title, content, and optionally an image and then submitted.
• Petitions are not too dissimilar, however each submission simply allows a user to 'Sign the Petition' and Comment On. As with ideas, the initial submission is given title, content, and optionally an image before saving.
  
  
  

As with most areas of Union Cloud there is a large amount of customisation you can do, including restricting which user groups can or can't; Like / Dislike, Sign, Comment, or otherwise interact with the Module, along with a whole host of other options we will cover below.

Setup

The Setup section consists of four sub-sections for initial setup of your Student Voice Module

Configure Ideas & Petitions

You can find this page on your own site at url: <yoursite>/administrator/configure_ideas

Setup - Configure Ideas & Petitions screen for changing the access settings for who can use the Student Voice Module

This page allows you to configure the options for permissions to access and use the module, you can also configure the permissions to Petitions and Ideas independently.

Configure Ideas

• [Checkbox] Submit Ideas - Checking this box restricts Idea submission to the usergroup set in the box below, if unchecked all Registered users will be able to submit ideas.

• [UserGroup Lookup] User Groups - Use this box to add the usergroups you want to allow to submit ideas, this box will not appear if the checkbox above is unchecked.

• [Checkbox] View Ideas - Checking this box restricts who can View Ideas to the usergroups set in the box below, if unchecked all Registered users will be able to view ideas.

• [UserGroup Lookup] User Groups - Use this box to add the usergroups you want to allow to view ideas, this box will not appear if the checkbox above is unchecked.

• [Checkbox] Like/Dislike/Comment/Report Abuse Ideas - Checking this box restricts who can Like / Dislike / Comment On / Report Abuse to the usergroups set in the box below, if unchecked all Registered users will be able to complete the listed actions.

• [UserGroup Lookup] User Groups - Use this box to add the usergroups you want to allow to complete the listed actions, this box will not appear if the checkbox above is unchecked.

• [Checkbox] Idea needs approval - Ticking this box means that all submitted ideas need approval by a a user with permissions to manage the Student Voice Module, which you can find info on in the Permissions section, before they will appear to users on the front end.

Configure Petitions

• [Checkbox] Submit Petition - Checking this box restricts Petition Creation to the usergroup set in the box below, if unchecked all Registered users will be able to create Petitions.

• [UserGroup Lookup] User Groups - Use this box to add the usergroups you want to allow to create Petitions, this box will not appear if the checkbox above is unchecked.

• [Checkbox] View Petitions - Checking this box restricts who can View Petitions to the usergroups set in the box below, if unchecked all Registered users will be able to view Petitions.

• [UserGroup Lookup] User Groups - Use this box to add the usergroups you want to allow to view Petitions, this box will not appear if the checkbox above is unchecked.

• [Checkbox] Like/Dislike/Comment/Report Abuse Petitions - Checking this box restricts who can Sign Petitions / Comment On / Report Abuse to the usergroups set in the box below, if unchecked all Registered users will be able to complete the listed actions.

• [UserGroup Lookup] User Groups - Use this box to add the usergroups you want to allow to complete the listed actions, this box will not appear if the checkbox above is unchecked.

• [Checkbox] Petition needs approval - Ticking this box means that all submitted Petitions need approval by a a user with permissions to manage the Student Voice Module, which you can find info on in the Permissions section, before they will appear to users on the front end.

Configure Status

Configure Status for Student Voice Module Ideas / Petitions

Showing Status/Categories for Ideas & Petitions on the Front End

You can find this page on your own site at url: <yoursite>/administrator/union_student_voice_statuses

After approval, ideas and petitions on the Student Voice Module are entered in a category called 'New Ideas & Petitions', for the duration of the time period you've set for a given submission, set on the individual Idea / Petition. At the end of this time period, an idea or petition can be moved to a number of categories, UnionCloud provides 8 of these;

• Approved
• Failed democratic process
• Maybe one day
• Rejected
• Second democratic process
• Submitted (All new ideas default to this category).
• We are working on it
• We changed it

Three of these categories are required, and therefore switched on by default; Approved, Rejected, and Submitted. The remaining 5 categories, can be switched on or off at a Student Voice Administrators leisure, these can also be renamed to a more suitable alias, usually something more relevant to your specific union. To do this, you simply need to click the pencil in the third column.

Configure Threshold

Configure Threshold for Student Voice Module, the number of Likes / Signatures an item receives before an email is triggered

You can find this page on your own site at url: <yoursite>/administrator/configure_threshold

From the Configure Threshold Screen, a Student Voice Module Administrator can set the number for two email Triggers

• 'Notify Student Voice Management when votes in favour equals:'

When the number of likes/votes equals to this, an email notification is sent to the Student Voice Management notifying that the threshold of the idea/petition is reached and the management can take necessary action.

• 'Notify Executive Committee when votes in favour equals:'

When the number of likes/votes equals to this, an email notification is sent to the Executive Committee notifying that the threshold of the idea/petition is reached and the committee can take necessary action.

 Note: You Can set the email address' for the 'Executive Committee', and also the 'Student Voice Management' in the Emails tab of the Setup section.

Student Voice Category

This is the Manage Categories screen for the Student Voice Module.

You can find this page on your own site at url: <yoursite>/administrator/union_student_voice_categories

Manage Ideas

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You can find this page on your own site at url: <yoursite>/administrator/student_voices

Manage Comments

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You can find this page on your own site at url: <yoursite>/administrator/comments

The Front End

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You can find this page on your own site at url: <yoursite>/thestudentvoice