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Internet
Advancement
Internet Advancement makes it
easy for unit leadership to record awards, ranks,
and merit badges to youth via an online process.
This system is separate
from Internet Rechartering, but uses a similar concept.
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Internet Advancement allows you to enter youth advancements, awards, and
merit badges and perform the following actions:
- Select members from your existing
roster,
- Review, update, or add ranks,
merit badges, and/or awards,
- Access an online Review Unit
Roster feature and the Unit Advancement Summary,
- Print an Advancement Report with
a Unit Awards Summary to assist in purchasing.
Before beginning Internet
Advancement, collect all member information, including advancement
records, award records, and merit badge applications with the appropriate
signatures. To complete Internet Advancement, you must be connected to a
printer to print the final report.
For assistance, you can consult the
help for
instructions on using Internet Advancement.
NEW Updates & Enhancements:
 Internet
Advancement, the online service for units submitting youth member
advancement, has been enhanced with some important new features:
• The Youth Protection Training (YPT) completed date, if any, is now
displayed for each person on the Roster.
• Users may now view previous advancement reports online.
• Academic and sports belt loops for Cub Scout packs are now trackable
online.
• Cub Scout packs may enter completion of
the Tiger Cub rank for members who earned the award but did not
have it in their records.
FAQs and IA tips
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How it Works:
- Select a unit advancement
processor. This person must have Internet connectivity and Microsoft
Internet Explorer (the system will not operate with other browsers such
as Firefox). This person needs to have the Unit ID code to access code
to access the online system.
- Gather information for
advancement, including merit badge applications and advancement records
with dates.
- Follow the instructions in
Internet
Advancement to process
advancements and print an advancement report.
- Have the appropriate people
sign the printed unit advancement report and submit it to the council.
Save a copy for your files.
At any time during the
year, the "unit advancement processor" from each active unit will be able
to record advancements to youth member records. And, they'll also be able
to print a unit roster at any time. The roster is the most current
information from ScoutNET, and it will include the person ID for each
adult and youth member.
Ranks must be recorded based on
program identifications and in the correct rank and date sequence. The
Eagle Scout rank cannot be awarded by this process. That will continue to
be processed through the Service Center. The signed advancement sheets
and blue cards are still be required in the Scout Shop for purchase of
awards.
Available Reports:
- Unit Advancement Summary
shows ranks, merit badges, and awards saved in each person's
record for current registered members in your unit.
- Advancement Report
lists each youth member that has new ranks, merit badges, and
awards, if any. This is the official unit Advancement Report to be
signed and submitted to the Scout Shop for awards. Ranks will still
need board of review date and signatures. The Eagle process is
unchanged. Merit badge "blue cards" are still required for merit badges.
- Unit Awards Summary
lists the number of new ranks, merit badges, and awards by name
as a shopping list.
- Advancement Update
Summary lists any ranks, merit badges, and awards that were
already in the member record along with any new additions.
- YPT history.
The Youth Protection Training (YPT) completed date, if any, is now
displayed for each person on the Unit Roster report.
new!
- Previous
Advancement reports. Users may now view previous advancement reports
online.
new!
The council will
provide each unit with a unit ID, and the unit will assign an adult to
record advancements. Ranks must be recorded based on program
identification and in the correct rank and date sequence. Awards to be
entered will not include nominated awards, such as those for
meritorious action, and awards that are controlled by other
organizations, even if approved for uniform wear. As BSA policies for
rank entry are enforced, what units enter will meet these
requirements.
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