As a school we use forms all the time, however we cannot schedule them and parents complain that they missed out on opportunities because it was during their work hours (which is also our work hours) - scheduling forms would help this issue!!
We used to have a feature where children's class names were displayed on the absence requests that came in so we could easily locate the pupils on our registers to copy the absence reason to the register and with over 500 pupils this was very hand...
Before the upgrade we were able to run a report of all parents who had not responded to a form. This then enables you to target that parent with a phone call or face to face meeting. Now you have to go into message all unresponded and try and figu...