Official Notes

Faculty and staff can use official notes to record comments about students. Official notes can be read and e-mailed to users associated with the student (i.e. parents) and can also be monitored by Comments Managers, Platform Managers, and members of a Monitoring Team.

To learn more about Official Note Types, see Official Note Types.

To learn more about Viewing and Composing Official Notes, see View and Compose Official Notes.

To learn more about Monitoring Teams, see Monitoring Teams.

To learn more about Official Note notifications, see Official Note Notifications.

To approve official notes that require a review:

1. Make sure you are in Academics and logged in as a user who belongs to an official notes monitoring team.

2. Go to Communication and select Official notes. You will arrive at the Approve official notes tab.

3. Set the menu options to display the official notes you would like to review. Note that the date filter displays the past 7 days by default. Select View.

4. Select Review beside an official note.

You can also review official notes via the Academics Dashboard by selecting Home, going to the Items to review tile, and selecting the number under Official Notes beside Ready to approve. For more information, see Items to Review on Dashboard.

Official Notes are set up separately from email integrations. For information on integrating Gmail into the Blackbaud Education Management user experience, see the help topic Google Apps Education Edition.