Our Unit Metrics in my.Scouting for Pack 332, Seneca Waterways Council show “-” for Outdoor/Super Activity. Yet we’ve had 3 outdoor activities in the past 12 months, and entered the attendance in Scoutbook. To verify, if I run a Unit Activity report in my.Scouting it shows 31 youth-nights of camping. So why aren’t we getting credit for having an Outdoor Activity in the past 12 months?
@PeterCollinge - you need to lookup what a super activity is
Stephen, I did look up the definition of an Outdoor/Super Activity for a pack before I wrote the original post. Under Unit Metrics in my.Scouting, it says that a pack qualifies if the, “Pack participated in outdoor activities in prior 12 months.” We did participate in outdoor activities; therefore we should have credit for this category in our Unit Metrics but we do not. (I believe that the term “Super Activity” is typically used in connection with Venturing, not Cub Scouts.)
@PeterCollinge - the super activity has to be entered in my.scouting,org and or tagged in the events in scoutbook plus. As i noted in your other post there is nobody here from my.scouting so you may want to pose the question to your council.
Stephen, our outdoor activities were tagged as outdoor activities in Scoutbook Plus, which is why I don’t understand why they aren’t showing up in the Unit Metrics.
I’m sorry but I’m confused by the other part of your reply. This is the forum for my.Scouting but you say there is nobody here from my.Scouting and I should contact my council. But I thought this was the place to bring up issues with my.Scouting. What am I not understanding?
@PeterCollinge - first off.. for the outdoor activities did you tag them with the unit metrics I show in the first grab, and the second is the manual entry in my.scouting. And to clarify, there is nobody from the my.scouting team on the forums so asking here is not really going to get things fix if broken and answers here are our best guess.
@PeterCollinge - you are not understanding what I was stating. Go to the calendar event, edit the event and look on the right hand side under attendees for unit metrics. Log entries are not going to do the metric.
Your only other choice is to enter it in my.scouting.org which is the other screen shot form the organization manager
@PeterCollinge - i can do a screen share if that will help you
Thanks, Stephen, I finally found that little Unit Metric section below Attendees in the event in the Calendar section of Scoutbook Plus. I don’t remember seeing that back when we added these events to the calendar; I wonder if it’s new since then. (I’m a Pack Committee member who has organized much of our camping.) Anyway, I clicked on Yes for all 3 of our camping events from the past year; hopefully that will flow through to my.Scouting when it updates, since the unit metric definition says that it counts outdoor activities in the past 12 months.
I realize that you didn’t design the system, Stephen, and can’t change it but I have to say that this is not at all user-friendly. I doubt that 1 in 50 Cub leaders realize that they have to take the extra step to designate something as an outdoor event. Most of us would just assume that if we list something as camping or hiking, that would automatically be seen as an outdoor event. I’ll try to pass that suggestion up the ranks through our council. Thanks again.
@PeterCollinge talk to your Commissioner - they wanted it - you can go in and mark a den meeting with it to fill the requirement.
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If only we had a commissioner…
I think (hope) this is taken care of now, thanks.
Don’t waste time looking at the metrics - use the time to do more with for your unit
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@PeterCollinge this “unit metric” is new as of March 2025, so you may not have seen it. You only need to mark it on one outdoor activity once within 12 months. Hence the other option to enter one time in MY.Scouting (but was also added to events in Scoutbook+ to make it more “line of sight” going forward).
Ideally, Unit Commissioners would be reaching out to their units to educate them and ask if there is anything they can do to help. It sounds like you have a great Pack and are doing a wonderful job with the Scouting America program. Keep it up! We are truly fulfilling the Mission of Scouting.
Thanks for the explanations and encouragement, Zachary. Our pack, like many, is still recovering from the reduced activities and reduced recruiting during the pandemic, which also caused some loss of members and leaders. But we’re making good progress in rebuilding. I keep reminding my Scoutmaster friends that without strong packs, we aren’t likely to maintain strong troops. And as a 50-year+ Scouts BSA volunteer who was never a Cub Scout, I’m certainly enjoying the youthful energy involved in my recent efforts with a pack!
@PeterCollinge - that is fantastic. Keep having fun and dont fret over the minutia of reports that do not add much value to the unit.
