Director of Scoutbook - 10/2/2015 Update
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Director of Scoutbook - 10/2/2015 Update
Good Friday to all!
It has been an interesting week, as the weeks prior to national board and committee meetings always are. On the Scoutbook front:
- We had our first (of many) knowledge sharing meetings on full integration between Scoutbook and Akela/Scoutnet. Opportunities and obstacles were identified and these will form the basis of our priority work the rest of this year and into next, to fully realize a seamless connection.
- Forum counters were fixed - they now reset properly and do not double count between production and beta.
- On Monday we invited another group of beta users into the experience - 50 of the most active Scoutbook units, totaling around 225 users. So far the bugs reported are either already known and in-process or are actually production bugs/enhancement requests already noted in the current site. So, the beta site is looking stable and we look forward to the cut over in the next couple of weeks, after all the critical bugs are fixed.
Oh yeah, we hit 500,000 users over the weekend and are now at 518,000. Thank you all for your support. Keep sharing the news!!
Looking ahead, Monday should be a good day for Scoutbook users. The calendar function will be coming out of beta into production, including the updates to the new Cub Scout program. I saw a demo of the new functionality to schedule a meeting, pick adventures that would be worked and then edit which requirements, including making home assignments. It looks really good but we are going to release on Monday when we can better monitor rather than risk an issue over the weekend. Stay tuned!!
Meanwhile, thanks for everything you do for Scouting and have a great weekend.
I want to know if the calendar will support reoccurring events, and if I can enter Troop meetings with a patrol subscription? Why that isn't available at the patrol level is just dumb.
Dear Michael,
Thank you for contacting Scoutbook! Currently, Scoutbook doesn't support dual registrations. I apologize for the inconvenience.
We hope you enjoy using Scoutbook! Have a great day!
Jennifer Lane
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Scoutbook User Experience Team
Also, this blog has served to relieve a lot of frustration among all of us now that we know we are actually being heard and progress is being made to improve the product!
Not hard and good customer service.
Come on.
Thanks,Jeff
Per Shawn's comments below - I see the new adventures! THANKS!
I can tell you that the new Cub Scout adventures are now live in the Manage Advancement area of the calendar events page! You should be able to plan out your entire year now so parents know which adventures and requirements you will be working on in den and pack meetings and which ones you would like the Scouts to complete as home assignments.
I'm so glad we are starting to get back on a regular schedule of releasing some kind of improvement each week. It will only get better over time! And of course we are not done with the calendar. Lot's of improvement planned based on your existing suggestions.
A scouter told me that I can add an external link for parents. I need to add the link to fill out medical form on scoutbook and save it there. Is there anyone who knows how that can help me?
Thank you in advance
Otherwise as stated above, leaders have to double enter it which what I have found means they don't enter at all. They feel no use using the planning feature if everyone can't see it and they aren't willing to take the time to type out in comments. :(
Thank you for the regular updates and replies within these comments, they are VERY appreciated. It helps me to have new news to share regarding scoutbook with different units and at meetings.
Was there some problem with the calendar update that's causing a delay, or, is this all there is?
I know that you can not commit to a specific schedule of updates. However, a specific list of planned functionality improvements and a rough priority outline would be a GREAT idea for managing expectations for the calendar, the Report Builder, etc. COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION.
1. Recurring events would be nice
2. In the upcoming events on my Troop dashboard I only see one event and I have two in my calendar? The one missing is three days out, the one showing is a week out.
3. If I had what will be worked on at the event it should be visible when I click an event from calendar. Shouldn't need to go digging somewhere. Where does it display for a parent??
Are the parents going to see that Adventure and those requirements listed as being on the agenda for the upcoming den meeting?
But, if the parents go into the Call of the Wild adventure for their son, they will see that 2, 4, 5a and 6 are planned to be covered in a den meeting on DATE, which will be hyperlinked to the that event.
I think that's fine, but I'd also like to see what you're asking...have the advancement be part of the description or otherwise visible to the parent on the event page itself. This should be in addition to any details I may want to put in the description field.
Logically I think that makes sense, and based on the questions surrounding this feature that's how many of us expected Manage Advancement to work.
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