OSM Skills Day

In early 2019, we rolled out a free Gold+ subscription to all groups in the district for Online Scout Manager. OSM is a digital platform that reduces the administrative burden of Scouting and allows data about young people to both be collected and stored securely in a fully GDPR compliant way.
If you would like to learn more about Online Scout Manager, join us for a friendly and hands on day (with the experts) learning how to use this powerful tool.
It is important to note the 2020 census will be generated using Online Scout Manager so every group/section will need to ensure they know how to collate this data and understand how to keep youth data up to date. We are keen that at least one leader from each section plus the GSL/AGSL or Group Administrator attends.
There will be four sessions as well as an option for general questions and queries.  To ensure quality tutorials we will break into small groups and rotate round the various topics.
What to bring with you

Packed lunch
Tea and Coffee will be provided but in the interests of the environment, bring your own mug.
(If you have one) it may be useful to bring your; Smart Phone, Tablet and/or Laptop.

Syllabus
Programme planning

Programme publishing
Calendar Syncing
Leader availability
Events & Payments
Linking Badges
Activity database

Group Management

Census collection
Collecting Gift Aid
Subscriptions
Section Size Planning
Access permissions

Administration 

Sharing young people between sections/groups/units
Sharing young leaders
Attendance register
Awarding badges
Badge stock and Shared badge stock
Email system (read receipts, templates, special content)

Parent Portal

Paperless Scouting (no more activity information forms)
Keeping Emergency contact information up to date
Events (Collecting additional data via Custom fields)
Events (RSVP & Payments)
Parent Rota