Hazardous Weather

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I have a Den Leader who has not been able to finish the HW training. He has tried several different browsers, hardware, and it keeps stopping at 99% with a never-ending loading screen, Could something related to his account be affecting this?

BSA ID 13715495 Daniel Boone Council

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His account looks OK to me. (I don’t think this is related, but his e-mail addresses are different between my.scouting and Scoutbook.)

Last login I see for him at my.scouting and the training site are on 11/4.

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I just received a similar complaint today about the last screen refusing to load.

Matt Ozimek
Member ID: 137112977
Pack 104
Crossroads of America Council

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@RonaldBlaisdell Thoughts on this one?

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When I have seen this in the past, I have recommended that they go to the TOC and try to reload from there.

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TOC = Table Of Contents (in the video)

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Course file distribution

BSA® uses cloud file distribution via the internet which can be affected by the loss of power due to storm damage. Usually takes about a day for network routing to recover.

The loss of physical network (internet cables) may affect the capacity of network and slow file transmission.

Some user-internet connections may limit file size allowed after a period of time

A virtual private network (VPN) connection may slow network file transmission.

This discussion is about online training.

The training being taken is “Hazardous Weather Training”.

2022-11-16-AN

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Definitely reduce image size. Mini cameras and phones take pictures that can be as big as 24 megapixels which take up a large amount of disk space. Also, some Internet providers change the speed of uplinks and are much slower on uplinks than they are on downloads. For this reason, a browser may time out on an upload if they upload. Speed is slow and the server receiving the data is busy. Since a video screen can only display the size of a picture to 1024x768 in most cases, having a 24 megapixel picture doesn’t make much sense unless you are doing cropping and filtering etc. So why would it may not be necessary to down size a picture? It certainly makes sense in the amount of time it takes to upload the picture and the amount of space it takes up on the receiving server.