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Do not sign off a section unless there is at least one piece of significant evidence, such as an image of the relevant page in the Keeping Track booklet. If you do, then HQ will raise a query requiring the Participant to submit something.
The default finishing date for a section is the date on which you do the signing off. If the Participant is progressing to the next level, they may well want you to record the date they actually finished the section so that they can start work on that section at the next level. You are given a warning about this with some very detailed instructions on how to set a finishing date of your choice. Make sure you are not on autopilot, pressing buttons with unthinking abandon - if you go too fast and enter the default date, you may not be able to reverse things.
Assuming things don't change over the next few years, Participants finishing Bronze now may find themselves filling in a GA6 form in a few years time as they complete their Gold. On that they will have to declare their Bronze and Silver section dates. As there is no obvious way for either Participants or Co-ordinator to retrieve these from e-DofE, it would be prudent to record them safely at the time of signing off each section.
Warn the Participant that unless they have uploaded at least 10 photographs for each section (14 for the Expedition), they will have either to leave blanks in their Achievement Pack or make use of library photos (which are fairly dire). Also advise them to upload at least 3 photos of themselves for use on the title page and at least 7 general photos for the cover of the Achievement Pack. Bear in mind that all uploaded Evidence except JPEG files (or other image files) is inaccessible for Achievement Pack purposes - PDF, DOC, PUB, TXT, simply vanish into cyberspace.