New interactive Duty to God tracking site

I saw that there is a new interactive Duty to God site.

http://DutytoGod.lds.org

The format and interaction is great. Am I missing how YM and bishopric members can track the progress of YM as they progress through Learn, Act, and Share? Hopefully I am just missing where this is located. If this was not included, that is very unfortunate. Anyone know where it is located?

dshepher wrote:I saw that there is a new interactive Duty to God site.

http://DutytoGod.lds.org

The format and interaction is great. Am I missing how YM and bishopric members can track the progress of YM as they progress through Learn, Act, and Share? Hopefully I am just missing where this is located. If this was not included, that is very unfortunate. Anyone know where it is located?

Unfortunately the full features of the site are not available to everyone just by going to the site. A young man must logon to the site using his LDS Account credentials to activate his tracking. Then his parents and leaders can also logon using their individual LDS Account and view his progress or sign off accomplishments if appropriate.

Just for situations where people not the young man, his parents, or his leaders want to see how it works it would be nice to have a help or FAQ page showing the full features. Hopefully this is being developed.

There is another thread, Duty to God and Personal Progress church web sites, about this same topic you may want to read.

I am in the Bishopric and once I log on with my LDS Account to the Duty to God site, I don't see where I can track the progress of our YM, including my son who is a deacon. The purpose of my original post was to see if I was missing the location for Duty to God progress reporting once logged in, or if that feature is planned and will be implimented at a later date. Sorry if that was not clear.

Also, I was the originator of that other thread concerning Duty to God and Personal progress and have been following it closesly. I posted it prior to the Personal Progress tracking coming online.

Has your son logged into the site?

RussellHltn wrote:Has your son logged into the site?

My son has logged into the site and entered his information, but I also cannot see anything about him when I log into the DutyToGod site.

Yeah, my son has registered, logged in and started to enter information into the Duty To God site. I cannot see anything about his progress as a parent or leader.

The tracking features aren't up for DTG yet, just Personal Progress.

Tortdog, do you know if they will be in the future? Would be nice if there was a FAQ that would list what features are being released and which ones are still in development. I tend to rely on this forum for the most up to date information and wanted to spark to conversion.

I don't know. But the fact that it is for Personal Progress sure give me reason to believe that it would be. It might be that they had to tweak it to allow for quorum presidencies to also monitor, something that might not be necessary with the YW program. But I would be utterly shocked if it did not soon have a review feature for parents and adult leaders.

As you mentioned, there is no FAQ, which suggests it's not done yet.

Has there been any change or update on this feature?

Ditto. Any update?

I also would like to know if there is any update? Is there a way for parents and leaders to see the progress of the Young Men?

richalger wrote:I also would like to know if there is any update? Is there a way for parents and leaders to see the progress of the Young Men?

Is there an update on tracking for YM Duty to God (or definitive word from LDS Technology employees that it will not happen)?

jimr17 wrote:Is there an update on tracking for YM Duty to God (or definitive word from LDS Technology employees that it will not happen)?

It is unlikely that we can expect a response from someone at CHQ through this forum. I would suggest submitting feedback through the LDS.org Submit Feedback link. Getting a response from that method is low also. But at least the right people will get the feedback whereas there is less chance they will get the feedback through this forum.

The personal progress reports are so cool!! We desperately need this same functionality for the Duty to God.

The latest information we have on this possibility can be found here.

I'm new to DtG, and have never seen the online PP leader tracking.
What specifically would a leader track in DtG? I don't think the instructions indicate that the young man's journal entries would be reviewed by anyone else and, other than the signatures at the end of the "Spiritual Strength" and "Priesthood Duties" sections, there is no recording of completing activities. Even the leader signatures there don't signify a review of what the young man recorded in the book or a catalog of requirements, but that they have had a conversation about his plans and how they have helped him.
I've read several threads here about a possible leader tracking function, and I am wondering if the absence of it is intentional, to avoid the reduction of the DtG program to an index of tasks to check off.

GrasseDD wrote:Even the leader signatures there don't signify a review of what the young man recorded in the book or a catalog of requirements, but that they have had a conversation about his plans and how they have helped him.
I've read several threads here about a possible leader tracking function, and I am wondering if the absence of it is intentional, to avoid the reduction of the DtG program to an index of tasks to check off.

This is very insightful. I believe that the lack of a proper tracking tool in Duty to God right now is at least in part because of the structure of the program.

As leader working with young men, I am always wondering which young men are working on DTG. Without having an overview of what the young men are working on it creates more task related work for leaders. If leaders could see in an overview of the program they can now spend their time helping those who are not yet engaged and in planning activities that cater to the DTG needs of each quorum.

darrenkirkham wrote:As leader working with young men, I am always wondering which young men are working on DTG. Without having an overview of what the young men are working on it creates more task related work for leaders. If leaders could see in an overview of the program they can now spend their time helping those who are not yet engaged and in planning activities that cater to the DTG needs of each quorum.

You can see an overview at this location.

https://www.lds.org/young-men/duty-to-god?lang=eng

All it takes is being familiar with the program, interaction with the youth to see where they are(I think they call it a Scoutmasters Conference), and the youth planning the activities (Its called Quorum Presidency Meeting). I know I make it sound simple, but it really is simple all the leader needs to do learns the YM program (which include DTG and Scouting), and help the youth leaders magnify their calling. That's why the calling is called a YMs adviser.

A little off subject but I feel it all goes hand in hand and if you don't treat it that way the program will fail.

Gary_Miller wrote: You can see an overview at this location.

https://www.lds.org/young-men/duty-to-god?lang=eng

All it takes is being familiar with the program, interaction with the youth to see where they are(I think they call it a Scoutmasters Conference), and the youth planning the activities (Its called Quorum Presidency Meeting). I know I make it sound simple, but it really is simple all the leader needs to do learns the YM program (which include DTG and Scouting), and help the youth leaders magnify their calling. That's why the calling is called a YMs adviser.

A little off subject but I feel it all goes hand in hand and if you don't treat it that way the program will fail.

I really agree. As a follow-up to my post earlier, I've had some more time to work with the YM and DtG. And, as I suspected, there is nothing to track--as far as a list or progression of requirements. Quorum meetings and conversations with leaders is how this works.

As a tangent, there is one item of Church technology that is very helpful for us. Most all our YM have phones or handheld devices, and prefer to use them as their Sunday scriptures. When we meet with them, we make sure they have the latest update of Gospel Library, and download--at least--the scriptures, For the Strength of Youth, True to the Faith, Come Follow Me, and Duty to God. They'll often forget to bring their DtG booklet, but they rarely forget to bring their phone. In class, when there is a principle that relates to DtG, we break them out and type in our thoughts. Because GL saves the annotations, it's safer than an easy-to-lose booklet, and it's with them (almost) always.
Now, it would be even better if the DtG comments in GL were synced with the lds.org online study notebook (odd it isn't).

Any updates on this feature? I'm a young men's president, and would like to be able to monitor the progress on the young men in our ward.

scl32 wrote:Any updates on this feature? I'm a young men's president, and would like to be able to monitor the progress on the young men in our ward.

We haven't heard any updates, or if anything is even being done to add tracking capabilities. See this post for an informative response from about a year and a half ago.

Any update? I'm an adult leader for YM.

rellis2 wrote:Any update? I'm an adult leader for YM.

As indicated in this post, we have never received any information from the Church that such a feature is even planned, so there's nothing to update.