Feature Requests

Is there a possibility to schedule sending of all messages (and their visibility to parents in OpenApply) at a particular date and time (the same goes for resulting Status changes eg Applied -> Offered/Reserve/No Offer etc)? I quite often have to hover over my [SEND] button at a particular time to ensure, for example, messages to families are sent at the same time as those sent to current families via School Cloud and/or so no parents can see the message/status change in OpenApply before the scheduled publication. Using the limited Schedule Publish Date on Status and Notification messages, what time of day does the message send as there is currently no ability to specify a time. Sending messages at a particular time can be especially tricky if I'm not at my desk at the required send time (eg meetings, events, between school sites, availability during school holidays/out of hours when I'm not working). I am a department of one and have no other staff member to step in on my behalf...

We currently can see what day a status has been changed eg "Applied" or "Admitted." It would be useful to see the change date for each sub-status too. Eg for us we would have Admitted (we can accepted) then sub status of offered, confirmed (parents said they want the place) and admitted (parents paid deposit to secure place but student has not yet started). Currently work around would be to have a manual office field.

The admissions representative only receives a notification once all reviewers have reviewed the application. It would help us if we could get a notification when each reviewer has completed. For example, if I assigned Alex and Katrease as reviewers but only Alex had reviewed so far, I would want to see "Alex has completed x student's application review." Currently, you have to keep checking.

We have had to close applications for 2 of our year groups. The work around is saving a message on the application site to say we are no longer taking applications. Many parents don't read this message or they choose to ignore!? Please could you consider building into Open Apply a function where we can close off applications for different year groups as this would save the work load of extra emails being sent out to families.

Would it be possible to add a feature to applicant checklists incase they are not able to upload requested documents. If they can select a date when they expect to be able to upload the document and/or be given the opportunity to provide extra info ( ie a 6 year old child may not be able to provide us with 2 school reports it they have never attended school yet. Thanks

We spend a lot of time tidying data, it would be great if fields automatically capitalise Names, addresses etc

It would be great if I could reply to all when replying on notes, instead if having to add each person individually.

"More flexibility is needed in the tour booking protocols. Currently, tours can only be booked if they are a 'checklist' item, causing confusion for parents who have already visited on an open day. This results in unnecessary bookings, taking up spaces needed for parents who have not yet visited. Can we allow tour bookings independently of the checklist to avoid this issue?"

We are struggling with not always having the parent email address when agents are enquiring on behalf of a student. They often do not want to pass on this information as they don't want to receive unnecessary spam before taking the process to the next stage. How do other schools get around this? Are you able to make the email address non-mandatory just for agents?? Thanks!