Features & Enhancements:
Self-Directed Activities:
A new 'Self-Directed' activity type joins Regular, Once-Off, Flexible and Event. Self-directed activities are for work volunteers complete at their own pace — such as surveys, reports, or external tasks — with no dates or rosters to manage. Instead of sessions, you break the activity into actions, and Volaby tracks completion for each volunteer individually. When creating an activity, choose 'Self-Directed' on the 'Activity Type' step.
Actions instead of sessions: Each action is a task a volunteer completes in their own time. Attach a report type to capture their responses, or add an optional external link for them to follow.
Automatic completion: A volunteer's progress is tracked action by action. Once they have submitted every required report, the activity is marked complete automatically.
No re-enrolment: Once a volunteer has completed a self-directed activity they can't re-join it, and completed activities move to the bottom of their activity list.
Individual Session Reports:
Some sessions need a report from each volunteer, not just one shared report. Individual Session Reports let every volunteer submit their own copy of the report fields — along with their own attendance or check-in and check-out — for the same session. Turn on 'Enable Individual Reports' in the Advanced section when adding or editing a session, and choose whether reports are 'Optional' or 'Mandatory'.
Per-volunteer reporting: Each volunteer fills in their own report with the session's fields and their own attendance.
Manager oversight: Managers can see who has and hasn't submitted, submit or edit a report on any volunteer's behalf, and — for mandatory reports — track a running submitted count.
Impact Dashboard: Sessions with individual reports become expandable in the detailed Impact Dashboard, revealing an 'Individual Responses' table with each volunteer's answers and check-in and check-out times. Numeric responses roll up into your totals.
Organisation-Wide Chat Channel:
Volaby Chat can now keep a single channel that every volunteer belongs to. Turn on 'Your Organisation' under Admin Console > Communications > Chat and every volunteer joins one organisation-wide channel automatically — ideal for announcements that need to reach everyone. Members are added when they join and removed when they are flagged or deactivated. Use 'Backfill' to add all existing volunteers, and switch the channel to Broadcast mode if you want only admins to post.
Program Auto-Enrolment:
Programs can now enrol every volunteer automatically. In a program's Basic Info, turn on 'Auto-Enrol All Volunteers' and every volunteer is enrolled in that program — including new volunteers as they join in future. It is ideal for organisation-wide or default programs that everyone should belong to.