Quarter 4, 2021—New Level 1 Projects
Two new projects will be added to the Ice Breaker and Evaluation and Feedback to make up an all-new Level 1 in Pathways. Writing a Speech with Purpose and Introduction to Vocal Variety and Body Language will help teach new members basic public speaking skills right away and set them up for success on their Toastmasters journey. The Researching and Presenting project will become an elective in Level 3. Please note that these changes will only be in English for the time being and will only be available in paths assigned after the launch of the new projects. Paths in progress or already completed will continue with the previous Level 1 projects.
Adding the new projects for our users to select will be pretty straightforward when this goes live. However, the trickier bit will be the "Researching and Presenting" project since we will need to maintain information for the Level 1 version as well as the not yet released Level 3 version. We will have two different versions in our db which we will need to maintain for reporting purposes, but we will need to hide one of those at some point in the selection drop-down so it does not accidently get picked. We have not done that "hidden" sort of thing to date for the project drop-down ... what is in the drop-down is what is in the reports. We will need to add a new attribute to the project drop-down data (& accompanying filtering in the javascript) for marking obsolete items.
