School Forms: Add More Reminder options

Allow reminder notification options for 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 month before due date and options for past due. 

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  • Dec 2 2015
  • Implemented
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  • Laurie Cross commented
    26 Apr, 2023 08:47pm

    I echo the comments below--the first time (and only time) I used this it sent 1,245 emails overnight. (to about 400 parents) Oh yes that looks gret for our school, right?! Like we have no idea what we are doing. The set up makes no sense whatsoever...and there is no detailed KB article or anyting else to help us figure it out..

  • Anita Pinkerton commented
    1 Jul, 2021 04:46pm

    The reminders function on the forms is a mine field. Since it is difficult to know when the reminders will be triggered, I have defaulted to not using the reminders at all. I accidentally sent contracts to parents 5 or 6 times before I realized what was happening.


  • Jeanne Townsend commented
    14 Jul, 2020 09:56pm

    And can we prevent the system from sending more than one reminder in any given day? We seem to always mistakenly trigger multiple reminders when editing our reminder email text!

  • lauren marcus eisenberg commented
    20 Dec, 2019 03:32pm

    Echoing what Oona McKnight wrote 9/13/17 - set up multiple reminders at the onset!

  • Veronica Zermani commented
    1 Oct, 2019 04:27pm

    Being able to pick our own dates would be great.  Add a little pop-up calendar so we don't have to count forwards or backwards from the due date, just select the exact date on the calendar to send the reminder.  

  • Guest commented
    11 Dec, 2018 09:20pm

    Add the option on 7 days after form activation/publish

  • Oona McKnight commented
    13 Sep, 2017 04:03pm

    I would love to be able to set up multiple reminders at once. We tend to Send on Activation to let them know the form is there, then send a reminder a week before the due date, then on the due date or when it's past due. It is a pain to have to go in and reset/retype the reminders each time I want one sent. I have to keep a separate document with the text of the various reminders, so that I can remember what the original one said... to make it easier to set up the next form. If they could all be in there at once, I could set it up and forget it.

  • Vincent Jurgens commented
    29 Mar, 2016 06:13pm

    For Forms where we incrementally add recipients throughout a year, an Initial Notification would be useful. Not so much a reminder.

    We had enabled the Upon Activation reminder type to achieve this, but every time we added someone, any existing recipients who had not yet submitted form also received the email. So they were peppered with "reminders" throughout the year. The form wasn't really one where such nagging was to our benefit.

    Not quite a priority, so I'm going to hold off submitting a new idea around this.

  • Brenda Noiseux commented
    16 Mar, 2016 09:56pm

    Two new Past Due options were added this past winter. 

  • Candace Chesler commented
    28 Dec, 2015 03:03pm

    Past Due Options would be extremely helpful.  At the moment - once the form is due - we change the due date to a future date and then send a "reminder" to those who didn't complete the form on time that it is past due.