I am an assistant scoutmaster and I am trying to review which of our adults are actually registered at merit badge counselors in our council. We are wanting to track all of our counselors and their training. I could access a merit badge counselor list when I was SM, but now that I am ASM, I can’t seem to access it Can the merit badge counselor list be made available to more people? I don’t understand why that access is so limited. Thank you.
@MargaretKinney The MB Counselor List search function is available in Scoutbook (legacy) for ASMs and most other registered adult leaders (except: Unit Scouter Reserve and Unit College Scouter Reserve).
If you want access to training, it’s probably better to use the Training Manager at my.Scouting. You would need someone to make you the Unit Training Chair or a Key 3 Delegate there.
The Guide to Advancement limits access to the MBC lists. Legacy Scoutbook actually opens the list up to more leaders than it should.
If you are wanting to validate training for every MBC in your Council or every MBC that works with one of your Scouts, I would say that is outside of your unit’s responsibility. The Legacy Scoutbook list and coming Scoutbook Plus list will not show a MBC that has expired Safeguarding Youth Training. If you want to see who is an MBC and also registered in your unit, you can use the Roster Report under Custom Reports in Scoutbook Plus.
Thank you. I am looking at custom reports in Scoutbook plus and I don’t know how to create a report of mbc’s in our unit- I only see my name listed. What should I do?
I just figured it out
I’ve been trying to figure out where to run the Merit Badge Counselor search. Can you point me in the right direction? I don’t see a place to search. Apologies in advance for my ignorance.
@EricChang2 as an ASM you would not have that permission by default - your Key 3 would need to grant it to you if they wanted you to have it.
A major focus of the migration to Scoutbook Plus is to have positions mirror the positions shown in My.Scouting to ensure positions were reflected accurately in both platforms. The main purpose it to honor the guidance of our charter organizations and the positions they approve. Therefore, Scoutbook Plus does not use Legacy Scoutbook positions. Registered positions are used to provide base permissions. Some additional permissions can be added by the unit, however, there are restrictions on what can be given. See the updated Scoutbook_Permissions.pdf and the Scoutbook Plus permissions video for more details. Just as permissions are now limited - so is report access - https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/scoutbook/Report-Permission-Access.pdf
