1. Bronze launch and eDofE login
The purpose of this presentation is to maximise the opportunity of assisting participants to login with confidence and trouble shoot any problems which will reduce Leader queries and ensure more engagement on the system. This is also an opportunity to clarify the sectional programme criteria and evidence requirements before participants undertake their activities; minimising errors, award rejection and non-completion.
Bronze launch and eDofE login

2. Do I want my award certificate and badge?
Ensure all participants understand they must log in to their eDofE to receive their award – no eDofE = no award!
Yes!

3. Why start and don’t finish???
How do I get my award and what barriers could stop me?
What to do if my activity stops or I don’t like it?.... Although we’d prefer you to stay with the same activity, if you need to change activity please speak with your Leader!
A number of young people abandon their award due to one section, please let them know there are other alternatives to discuss.

4. Bronze level requirements
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100%
25%
25%
25%
25%
Reminder that all sections are equally important and many Centres hold back the expedition section until some or all of the other sections are complete. This will assist with award completion rates.
Use this slide to discuss what might count and considerations. Maybe a music lesson is only half an hour, maybe practice for the rest of the time or extend their timescales. Ensure participants understand they cannot undertake a section in a block, this must be regular for the duration of their sectional timescale.
Is your activity the same throughout your section?
Is your activity roughly an hour per week?
Will it be on a regular basis throughout your section?
Does it meet the sectional criteria on the ‘At a Glance’?
What evidence can I use?

5. Avoid disappointment! Check activities before you start!
Do your activities count?
Avoid disappointment! Check activities before you start!
Is your programme balanced?…. if you are undertaking activities in a similar environment, please note you can only do this for 2 sections and please ensure you have a clear definition between the separate hours, objectives and preferably Assessor too]
Is your Volunteering activity for a charitable organisation or the community? [Tip: RSPCA is great, but a Vet’s are not!]
If your Skills activity is Dance Appreciation or Games and Sports, please make sure this is not participating; more a knowledge/skills based activity, rather than ‘doing’.
Identify an Assessor – not a family member or fellow participant! Family can be support your activity, but not complete your Assessor’s report!
The DofE programme enables young people to grow in confidence, when working in the same environment for all sections, this will not offer a balanced programme.
Volunteering - Please ensure participants understand the difference between offering their time voluntarily and who they are working for. Commercial organisations do not count, as this is replacing paid labour – this section needs to be for the community or charitable organisation.
Skills - Although most games/sports and dances require skill, these still firmly fit within the Physical section. Please ensure participants understand that these categories focus on the knowledge or coaching of, not participation.
Assessor – It may be difficult to identify an Assessor if participants are undertaking something at home, in a gym, leisure centre, walking, running or cycling, however, if they can identify someone who can sign of the weekly activity log but maybe identify an Assessor at school to talk through their progress, this would be fine.

6. Open discussion – randomly ask participants what sections they may have already chosen for one of their sections and discuss whether this meets the criteria or not. Leaders are looking for examples of good practice and weed out incorrect activities.
Maybe use the ball from the programmes pack and ask individuals to suggest a good volunteering activity, discuss their answer and ask to throw the ball to another participant and proceed to ask about suggestions for the other sections.
Once complete, Leaders may find young people are keen to confirm their chosen activities – print off a number of the programme ideas/display the laminated cards from the Programmes Pack for your participants to have a look through to identify suitable activities.

7. Do you want an Achievement pack?
All evidence must be added before the award is approved.
Countless young people fail to submit their section for approval when they have completed – they will submit their programme planner and their Assessor’s report. Leaders often approve the evidence but do not approve the whole section in case participants want to submit further evidence. Rendering both waiting for each other.
A quick way to ensure progress of completion is to openly ask participants if they do want their Achievement Pack – if not, the Leader can automatically progress all sections for approval when the Assessor requirements are met.
Please note, further evidence cannot be added to completed awards. Due to cost and developer time, the DofE cannot re-open accounts for participants to work on their Achievement Pack retrospectively.
Please let your Leader know if you want to create your pack

8. Assessor reports and evidence
All sections need an Adult Assessor Report
A weekly activity log provides a good diary of your progress
Discuss what is needed on Assessors reports and the additional option of Assessors submitting evidence through the portal for convenience:
Assessors’ reports must include:
Assessor name, title/position and contact information
Your name and details of your activity
Your sectional activity dates
A report on how well you did!

9. Logging on
Enter your username and password; remember these are case sensitive.
3 incorrect entries will lock you out for 24 hours, so be careful!
To make the session purposeful ensure the participants don’t continue further attempts to log in if they have made two incorrect attempts!

10. Continue through welcome screen

11. Fill in all the q’s with a *
Enter house number and postcode and click find address
Enter a space between the first and last part of the postcode for the ‘Find address’ function to work effectively.

12. Remind participants to add an account which is active, doesn’t have an over zealous spam filter and isn’t full! Also, for those Centres who use school addresses, remind participants to update their address on leaving the school to enable Leaders to continue to manage their award.

13. Explain that all four images go green when the new password criteria has been met.

14. This page is for the DofE to enable us to monitor our impact in all areas and possibly apply for funding. This is not compulsory, but it would be greatly appreciated – also, none of the participant information is shared, it is all anonomised.

16. Please click the ‘here’ button to take participants to select their timescales

17. Hover over your preferred timescales and save your selection
This is a new feature which shows the three options of their preferred timescales. When hovering over each of the 3 combination options the numbers appear darker.
Remind participants to select their preferred activity for the longest of their timescales and if they have already worked towards something that can count, they can retrospectively count up to 3 months activity against on of the sections.
If the participant needs to change their preferred timescales at any point, they simply re-visit this page and amend as necessary.
Option 1
Option 2
Hover over your preferred timescales and save your selection
Option 3

18. Click to edit each section with your programme planner

19. When selecting the Type/Category correctly, eDofE offers a list – if your activity isn’t shown, add text instead
Please stress the need to Save and submit rather than save as draft, as Leaders can see information, but cannot action anything in draft, also, the information doesn’t flag as an alert to Leaders to prevent any potential sectional activity errors.
Also, please advise that the Type/Category is the underlined sections in the Programme Ideas sheet – if correctly clicked, the system offers a further drop down selection. If participants are opting to do something which isn’t on the ‘Detailed activity chosen’, they can add free text which will show in green to you, as it is not from the standard list.
Where possible, please click Submit for approval rather than Save as draft

20. Leaders can add a lot of the information for the expedition section, but you need to add your GROUP Aim and PERSONAL Objectives
Leaders can add a vast amount of information on the Expedition section via the Expedition Setup process, however, participants are still required to add the information on their group aim (project they have chosen to work on throughout their expedition and is the main focus of their presentation) and they need to add a personal objective too.
GROUP
PERSONAL

21. – don’t submit your Assessors report and planners at the same time!
Continue to submit your sectional programme planners
AND remember to wait for your Leader’s approval before starting your activities
– don’t submit your Assessors report and planners at the same time!
Streesss….do not start anything without checking the Leaders have given the ‘thumbs up’.
Far too many participants submit their programme planners when uploading their evidence of what they have already done – this practice could lead to rejected activities as Leaders are not able to pick up on errors after the event!

22. https://m.edofe.org/ Mobile access
For easy eDofE access, once you have entered all of your mandatory information in the main site, you can log in to our mobile platform and upload all your programme planners and evidence
Advise participants that the mobile site is the quickest and most convenient way to access eDofE, however they will need to add their mandatory details and open their account via the main site first.

23. Mobile access

24. Remember to log back in to check Leader and Verifier comments!
When you’re done….
When you have completed all of your sections, add your Assessor’s reports and supporting evidence and submit the section for approval
Advise participants that Verifiers are the additional tier of approval beyond the Leader. Verifiers often pick up on additional queries, so remind them to log back in to respond to any queries…..the award isn’t completed until after the Verifier is happy!
Remember to log back in to check Leader and Verifier comments!

25. Adding evidence Choose your format of evidence and upload
Assessors can also upload via:
Is it an Assessor’s report?
Select your preferred Leader from the drop down box

26. Let’s get started! Accessing eDofE
Either go straight to the webpage:
or visit the main DofE website and click on the eDofE button:
Let’s get started!
Open a browser and type in