Award cycle dashboard

Review your application questions and adjust them before your cycle starts, and before students start submitting their applications. This stage is categorized by the application type: General, Conditional, and Opportunity.

• General application: Shows the number of applications submitted. The number increases as applicants submit their general application. Selecting Applications submitted takes you to the General applications grid. You can filter by the Submitted category to monitor the submitted applications. View details takes you to the General application details page where you can review the General application details and questions and make any changes before the cycle starts.
  

• Conditional and Opportunity applications: Shows the number of applications published (applicants filled out) and submitted (applicants actually submitted). Selecting Applications published opens the Opportunities grid that is filtered on published opportunity status to allow you to manage and review published applications.

  Select View options takes you to the application-specific grids to drill down into the applications submitted. You can filter by the Submitted category to see all submitted applications for each opportunity type.

  For Opportunity applications, you can see the opportunities published for auto-match applications, not the count for submitted as an applicant does not submit a direct application. To view the submitted auto-match applications, select View applications, and filter the grid by the submitted category.

Note: The application count on the dashboard are based on open, unarchived opportunities.

Shows any open and unarchived reviewer groups related to current opportunities, to help you monitor the progress of each reviewer group by tracking the number of assigned reviews versus completed reviews. For each reviewer group, the dashboard shows the number of applications reviewed out of the total number of applications assigned for review. See Monitor reviews for additional information.

Select View reviewers to view which reviewers still have reviews to complete for each reviewer group.

Gain insights on your awarding decisions by opportunity type. You can track offered awards and review which of the awards students have accepted.

• Award renewal applications: Shows the number of renewal applications awarded out of the total number of renewal applications. Selecting Award applications opens the Applications grid. You can filter the category by awarded to drill into applications.

• Award opportunity applications: Shows the number of application award offers made by opportunity type. Selecting Award applicationsopens the opportunity-specific application grid. You can filter by the Offered category to view the list of offered applications for each opportunity type.

• Accepted awards : Shows the number of awards accepted by applicants out of the total number of offered awards by opportunity type. Selecting View accepted awards opens the opportunity-specific application grid. You can filter by Accepted category to view the list offered applications by opportunity type.

Monitor the progress of post-acceptance applications (also known as thank you letters or impact statements) the recipients submitted and gather any additional information you may need from the award recipient before the award is disbursed. This stage shows the number of post-aceptance applications submitted and awarded out of the total number of post-acceptance applications.

Selecting View applications opens the Post-acceptance applications grid. You can filter by the desired category to drill into your post-acceptance applications.

Use the Fund Disbursements API and Fund Disbursements Export to report award decisions or update existing awards before award disbursement.

Surface helpful links you may need to update your student information system (SIS) with award decisions, you've made in Blackbaud Award Management before disbursing awards.

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Complete end-of-cycle recommendations to prepare your site for your next cycle, such as saving historical records, copying over applications, or organizing reviewer groups. In this stage, you can:

• Review the checklist with the items for you to complete to get your system ready for cycle management.

• Submit a support case when you're ready to go through cycle management.

• View the recommendation list that helps you prepare for a new award cycle once you've completed cycle management to get your system ready for a new award cycle.