Configuration to force parents to eSign report car
We are moving to online report cards and will be looking for reporting on which parents have viewed the online report cards. This will require us to see which parents have viewed/signed the report card and any further communication to those which have not.
Currently the report cards allow you to click view report without eSigning the report card. The popup shows again but you can continue without forcing the eSign.
We would like a configuration to force the parent to eSign prior to opening/viewing the online report card. We would like the View Report button to not be visible/enabled until a report card has been eSigned.
Allowing parents to see the report card without eSigning can be seen as a false negative in the eSign reports that the parents are not looking / not being notified of the report cards. We want to accurately track and know which families receive and view online report cards.
With the configuration to force the eSign on when a parent clicks any term where they have not eSigned the report card we get the same pop up with the eSign message about the report card. There will not be a link to say "View Report" until after the checkbox date and eSign information is present.
Brian Gaines
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Great news, PR 3665437 has been completed and the “Require Report Cards to be signed before they can be viewed” option has been added to require report cards to be electronically signed before the report card can be viewed. The option can be turned on in Student Management > Families > Family Access > Setup > Configuration > Entity Configuration; select Edit next to Report Cards. When a parent/guardian logs into Family Access and goes to the Portfolio tab and clicks on a report card, there will not be a separate View Report button and the report card must be signed before it can be viewed. The same will happen when logging into Mobile to view a report card with the option turned on. This was released with June Addendum 8 (8/16/18).