Director of Scoutbook - 12/7/2015
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Director of Scoutbook - 12/7/2015
Pearl Harbor Rememberance Day!
Last week was a busy one for the Scoutbook team. We released the updated Cub Scout Outdoor Award requirements on 12/2 as noted in the change log. https://www.scoutbook.com/mobile/forums/change-log/936/progress-on-outdoor-activity-award/. In the process we created an issue with all of the awards and adventure information flowing correctly thru the needs approving/purchasing/awarding reports and the counters for those reports. The team worked hard Friday and a fix for these issues was released Friday afternoon around 3:30. See the change lot at https://www.scoutbook.com/mobile/forums/change-log/2603/needs-purchasing-report/ for the latest on this issue.
On Thrusday we release a refresh of the site to move Tiger Cub to Tiger in all appropriate locations. That same day we change the look of toggle switches to make it more visibilly apparent which status a switch is in.
Today there have been two releases of a technical nature (parameterizing frequent queries) in our ongoing work to improve the sites performance and response time, especially at peak usage hours. There are several more updates of this nature moving thru the workflow over the next week.
The next week or so will focus on making sure that Scoutbook is positioned to support the new 2016 Boy Scout Requirements when they become official on 1/4/2015. See www.scouting.org/programupdates for more information on these requirement changes, transition process, etc. Additionally over the next week we will continue working on getting the forum counters correctly reflecting unread forum entries.
Looking forward to next year, we will be starting the planning and agile development steps towards integration of Scoutbook and BSA's person profile database, Akela. Over 2016 this will open up opportunities for two-way transfer of advancement, training, profile and other data. What can you do now to prepare for this process? While the process will be largely behind the scenes at first, there are some actions that individuals can take now:
- If you are a registered member, put your member ID in your Scoutbook profile
- If you do not have a My.Scouting.org account, create one using the same profile information (name, address, email, member ID, etc.) as you use for Scoutbook.
- If you do have a My.Scouting.org account, check your profile information to make sure that Scoutbook and My.Scouting.org information matches.
That's it for now. As always, thank you for your support of Scoutbook.
I was slightly worried after not seeing an update from you on Friday, and expected the response from the community to be just as harsh as in recent weeks. After reading today's post, my fears were misplaced. Thank you so much for listening to the community and crafting your updates to align with what we requested. I have loved the Scoutbook product since before it was acquired by BSA, and feel that the development and merge has finally moved from the storming phase into norming. I cannot wait to see the progress, upgrades, and improvements to come, especially once the team moves into the performing phaze. Thank you for keeping us updated.
Most importantly, Scoutbook is a tool that helps all of the Scouters truly support the SCOUT.
Keep up the good work BSA!
There is a one year transition period when both the old and new requirements are in effect subject to the rules specified in the notes on Transitioning to the 2016 Boy Scout Requirements, 7/28/2014, and the Boy Scout Requirements FAQs, 8/29/2015, which may be found on the BSA Program Updates web page cited in orginal post.
Bumping to top of list as this problem is still occurring. Considering cross-posting or adding this comment to the blog page. Now that some of my Webelos 1s have earned their webelos patch it is showing their electives for AOL complete using the ones used for Webelos. The double dipping issue is hard to figure out if a scout has only done 3 or 4 electives. Even worse is a parent thinking their son is further along immediately after ranking to see 2 of his 7 pins complete!
Also Webelos 2's working on their AOL who happen to complete some of the required Webelos 1 adventure pins (first responder is the big one for our den and we allowed the 5th graders to be a part of it) is showing no credit for it in the elective catagory. Will this be an option as it has been explained at roundtable as an acceptable practice.
Any timeline for this to be resolved is greatly appreciated as there has been no traction since the forum topic started 6 months ago.
On a sidenote, the usability factor of scoutbook is drastically improving during peak hours so the changes you are doing is making a world of difference for us! Thank you for your hard work.
Arrow of Light elective adventures implemented incorrectly. (It is satisfying the 3 elective requirements with 2 that have already been used to satisfy the Webelos requirement.)
Webelos rank mini-report does not work correctly. (I suspect the other ranks do not work either, but I have not verified.)
Nova/STEM awards not updated. (And new awards missing.)
World Conservation Award not updated.
Sports and Academics Program has prominence in UI, even though it is an obsolete program, confusing parents.
I noticied I could not find belt loop award "Germs Alive" to update my Wolf Pack members. Is it under a different title?
Thanks,
Cathy
Note, you really don't have to remove all the individual checks, just remove the completion date and approvals.
Joe-thanks for the list. The prominence of the old belt loop program is an annoyance .
Now, if you recorded his Bear award under the old requirement, the update "hid" that when the 2015 requirements were put in place, but the pin/patch would still be on his profile page. If you toggle his Bear rank back to 2010, you'll see the old completion. I removed the completion from the old requirements then recorded it under the 2015 requirements, so that only the correct one shows.
New Scouts after Jan 1, 2016 start under the new requirements immediately.
On Jan 1, 2017 all must transition to the new requirements regardless of which rank they are on.
The Boy Scout Transition FAQ had these and many other answers. You can find that and more on the Program Updates page (the same page as the Cub Scout and Venturing updates).
FAQ: http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/2016BoyScoutrequirementsFAQs.pdf
Program Updates Page: http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/programupdates.aspx
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