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Please remove the home phone field from being required
Please remove the home phone field from being required on the Financial Aid Management application as many households no longer have a home phone.1 Under consideration
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Allow for special characters and accent marks in names
Please allow for special characters and accent marks in student and parent names. We can currently add special characters to records in BEM and RE. -
Allow Internal Codes by student, instead of by family
Currently, only one internal code is allowed per family. I often sort the students by internal code, so my reports are incorrect and misleading. For example. one student accepted our award (Award accepted) and their sibling declined our acceptance...1 Under consideration
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Allow the ability to push award amounts to Tuition Management more than once
Financial Aid awards change, especially if a family requests additional aid or if our school awards them a different amount due to other students withdrawing. The "push to Smart" feature is only available for a student once, but it's a manual proc...0 Under consideration
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Add student ID, user ID to all Financial Aid reports.
Please add the option to include the student ID and user ID to all Financial Aid reports. I find the student ID much more useful for sorting transactions than the user ID, since the user ID is generated by Blackbaud while the student ID is a numbe...0 Under consideration
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Enable a notification to the financial aid administrator when a family accepts an award.
I would like to receive a notification when a family accepts a financial aid award so I know to go back to BBFAM and send the award to BBTM. Right now, I need to keep a separate tracking sheet and go back to BBFAM periodically to see if a family h...0 Under consideration
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Add character countdown/count on free-fill custom questions.
Currently the form shows the error indicating a required field has been left out if more than the 500 characters are typed. This error is misleading and a character countdown or count would solve this error.0 Under consideration
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Include the date an application was initiated in Application Details> Audit Logging
It would be helpful to know when a family has initiated an application inside a school year if we could reference that date from their application (in Application Details> Audit Logging). This will help us be able to tell when their reminder no...0 Under consideration
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Differentiate color scheme between years
Now that BBFAM has the capability to toggle between different school years, could the screen colors be differentiated, so it easy to see which school year we are in? -
Federal Poverty Level Report availability
Create a report for School Administrators that provides the Federal Poverty Guidelines with Poverty Level Percentages displayed. Please refer to the Empower Illinois website for a sample layout (EmpowerIllinois.org/Apply/Tax Credit FAQ/ page 3).1 Under consideration