Task · part of 5.0.8.0. The council advancement committee establishes the procedures
5.0.8.0. Guidelines that keep the actual testing in a personal setting
Recommended
The fifth example action, and the one that recurs everywhere else on this page: produce guidelines for technology or web-based merit badge instruction that place the actual testing in a personal setting. Instruction may scale. Testing does not.
Notes and warnings
Tip. The sentence that resolves most online-instruction questions on its own: instruction may be delivered by technology, but the guidelines should place the actual testing in a personal setting. A webinar that teaches forty Scouts and then signs off forty badges has skipped the half the Guide cares about.
Where this step comes from
- Guide to Advancement (2025), Section 5.0.8.0 · Produce guidelines for technology or web-based merit badge instruction that places the actual testing in a personal setting.