School forms should have an option to only include responsible signers. The amount of time I spend each year pulling advanced lists of responsible signers and then removing non-responsible signers from school forms is ridiculous. Contracts only include responsible signers and contract lists allow us to pull Remaining Responsible Signers quite easily. In school forms, however, it is incredibly tedious and time consuming to figure out who has and who has not signed a form. This functionality will be particularly useful for forms that require signatures from both students and all parents (responsible signers).

Currently, the only way to determine who has not signed a school form is to individually open each started PDF file, scroll to see who has not signed, then create a separate list of those individuals for whom follow up is necessary. Since the reminder function in school forms is limited to one week after the due date and the reminder emails go to all parties on the form (not just those who have not yet signed), reminders simply aren’t the end all be all for managing forms.

While the Export button in the form submission window pulls complete data, including signed_text and signed_date information, this export only pulls data for forms with the status of SUBMITTED. Additionally, the School Forms object in Advanced Lists does not include the signed_text and signed_date fields, so there is no way to create an advanced list to pull the complete data for forms with a status of started (or not started).

Blackbaud should: (1) add responsible signer functionality to school forms (even if this is simply an “RS” indicator icon on the Recipients tab, this would be a vast improvement); (2) upgrade the Export function in school form submissions to include all status types or at least give schools the option to select the status to include on the export; and (3) add an additional school forms object in advanced lists to pull the signed_text and signed_date fields.