The EEE+ Scout application has been discontinued as of July 1, 2022.
This website provides information about the discontinuation and alternative services.
Phased discontinuation timeline
Scout was discontinued in phases according to the following timeline:
Date | What Is Happening |
March 18, 2022 | Last day to create, edit, or publish forms |
June 10, 2022 | Last day to submit any form responses |
June 30, 2022 | Last day to view or download form submissions, EEE+ |
July 1, 2022 | EEE+ Scout no longer available |
View an accessible text version of the Scout retirement phases on our timeline page.
Why was EEE+ Scout Discontinued?
When Scout was introduced in 2014, there were limited stand-alone form building tools that supported features like UCI login and file uploads. In the time since then, many robust and highly competitive alternatives have emerged and matured including Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, Qualtrics, and CampusGroups.
In the eight years since its inception, the open-source software framework upon which Scout was built has been retired and will no longer be supported, introducing an ongoing security risk. Due to a variety of factors, the only way to secure and maintain Scout would be the resource intensive process of rebuilding it from scratch on a new framework.
Given the availability of competitive alternatives, the most efficient use of limited University resources is to transition Scout users to other form builders and retire the service. This will allow the EEE+ team to invest our software development resources instead into creating and supporting systems that meet campus needs that are not already served elsewhere.
Questions/Concerns
Please contact us at eee-support@uci.edu. We are here to help.