I would also like to support that being able to publish forms to parent role or parental access or responsible signer would provide much needed flexibility for schools to publish forms to just the intended recipients. At our school, we use the responsible signer relationship designation to indicate which guardians are truly the decision makers for the child while the parental access is used to grant view permissions to the LMS and other features without permitting that guardian to submit forms, sign enrollment contracts, submit medical info, etc.

Just wanted to update this as we ran into this issue. I think the current options need to be flushed overall.

I agree that there should be a "legal signing" option that also allows for school forms just like "responsible signor". It is WAYYYY too time consuming to have to remove these from parents who shouldn't have this right; BUT should be able to have access to the student records and classes. This would also help when step parents are listed and should have access to the record; but not the ability to sign.

This option should also be available for additional roles like guardians and such.

I agree with Vincent - this is a very useful idea not just with forms, but with access in general.  For example, a grandparent or guardian might need to see grades but what about Medical Information?  There are HIPAA laws to take in to account.  Some subtle differences regarding that aspect such as health records should be differentiated in a child's relationship also.

I agree that "Legal Signing Authority" would be a great checkbox--this would also mean that biological parents who do not have legal custody could simply be excluded from forms due to the fact that the legal signing authority checkbox isn't checked. It would also be nice if the signature field could be "smart" in the sense that if it is a "require both parent signatures" setting, it would automatically require only those that had the legal signing authority.

Hi Vincent, those are great points and I like the idea of maybe having a "Legal Signing Authority" checkbox or something.

I agree that we need to make some improvements to this especially since so many private schools have international students and the biological parents aren't the ones signing permission slips, etc for the students while they're at school.

Thanks for your feedback!

Might need to be more subtle, flexible than this. "Parental Access" has meant: gets a myschoolapp account and sees student's info. We give this to some step-parents, whom would not, and cannot, sign forms regarding students. Users with Step-Parent role, but have list as parent and parental access checked, currently do not get added to forms, which is good.

But I would like users with "Guardian" roles to get assigned to forms, aand they currently are not. (just added  K12CO-I-911.)

So, do we need a new Relationship flag: Legal Signing Authority, or something like that?  BB can work through the scenarios, find the optimal position for such a feature.