gsLearn is Girl Scouts’ official online and on-demand training platform for volunteers. Access courses on the go, track your progress, and more by simply signing into your MyGS account and clicking on the gsLearn button in the left navigation.
Required training tailored to your role will be pre-assigned in gsLearn to your Dashboard, including:
578 Welcome to gsLearn is a one-time orientation that covers a short overview of the gsLearn training platform and includes navigational tips.
578 Essential Troop Leader Training is a collection of new leader training courses available in gsLearn.
The following training courses are included in the 578 Essential Troop Leader Training learning path and may be assigned to your account:
- GSCTX Orientation is an overview of Girl Scouts of Central Texas—often referred to as GSCTX.
- 578 GSCTX Youth Protection Training—Protecting Our Girl Scouts provides a curriculum that focuses on the prevention of sexual abuse and child molestation for staff and volunteers who work directly with our youth members. This training course is required for any adult working directly with our youth members, including any adult listed on an Activity and Travel Application.
- GSUSA New Leader Onboarding: Troop Safety equips you with the fundamentals to keep your troop safe in meetings and on field trips. You will also learn about a go-to guide that helps your troop stay safe no matter where your adventures take you!
- GSUSA New Leader Onboarding: Your First Troop Meeting provides the structure and tools to plan a successful first troop meeting (and beyond!) with their Girl Scouts.
- GSUSA New Leader Onboarding: Funding the Fun – Managing Girl Scout Troop Finances teaches the basics of managing your troop’s funds highlighting how troops fund meetings and activities and manage and report finances to their councils.
- 578 Money Manager is highly recommended for anyone planning to be a signer or co-signer on a troop or service unit bank account. Money-earning guidelines are also covered in this training.
- GSUSA New Leader Onboarding: Family Engagement – The Key to Success illuminates the value of family engagement and provides practical strategies for how to enlist family support.
- 578 Let’s Go! 1—Out & About prepares volunteers to lead Girl Scouts on adventures including field trips, basic day hikes, and simple overnights in buildings with their own heat source, electricity, and running water. The course is the pre-requisite to additional Let's Go! Training Courses.
- 578 Let’s Go! GSCTX Policies covers GSCTX policies and procedures related to traveling with your troop. This course must be retaken every three years to maintain certification.
- GSUSA Volunteer Toolkit—Troop Leader View demonstrates how to use The Volunteer Toolkit (VTK), your official source for delivering easy, fun troop meetings year-round. With this step-by-step guide, you can start your troop year strong and spend more time adventuring with your Girl Scouts.
- GSUSA Managing My Troops from My Account demonstrates how troop leaders can manage troop and troop member information from My Account. It also covers how leaders can complete registration activities for troop members.
- GSUSA New Leader Onboarding: The Girl Scout Cookie Program reviews how and why Girl Scouts sell cookies, who the bakers are that make the cookies, and how to utilize cookie proceeds with your troop. It also covers all the exciting program options you can explore with your troop as you build their entrepreneurial skills, plus covers cookie selling safety and important ways to bring families and caregivers along in your troop’s cookie business adventure.
- 578 VTK Finance Tab Volunteer Training covers what you need to know to use the VTK Finance tab to prepare your year-end financial report.
