Copy reviews from one scholarship to another within a reviewer group

When reviewing scholarship by scholarship, our committees often see the same student 5+ times and they have to review from scratch for each opportunity. We would like a way for a a committee member's review to copy over from one scholarship to the others they are reviewing so they only review that student one time.

We have to review anonymously and because conditional applications cannot be reviewed anonymously, we have to review by scholarship.


We would like the option to have rubrics answers copy over across scholarships. (Similar to the post-acceptance function that allows students to copy answers over to multiple PA opportunities) We would also greatly appreciate the ability to review anonymously on a conditional level.

  • Lindley Jones
  • Feb 11 2022
  • Reviewed: Voting Open
Client Name "shard name" appstate
User System Admin
Functional Unit Reviewer Groups, Users, Reviews, Conditional Application, Review
Employee Name Lindley Jones
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  • Mackenzie Bode commented
    17 Sep 21:51

    A more diverse reviewing ability would add a large amount of value to BBAM, faculty and staff who serve on review committees everywhere would advocate to use this software if it had capability like this enhancement request is describing.

  • Guest commented
    March 29, 2023 19:27

    The existing functionality is flawed in that some actions like name-blind reviews can only selectively be completed at the opportunity (or general) level and not at the conditional level. I generally agree with Lindley's comments.

  • Lindley Jones commented
    March 10, 2023 15:19

    I find it very confusing (why do I have a list of applications and reviews and the reviews are the applications in triplicate?); it's redundant in super unhelpful ways.

    The organizational structure of this data management system is not helpful. If the idea is that we're trying to streamline work or create efficiencies, this platform doesn't seem to achieve that. Our committee ended up doing our work outside of the system anyway and then going back into the system to tick the right boxes, so to speak.

    The committee members were confused, and it seemed to take more time to work with this system than just getting together and having a conversation. I recognize that centralizing the management of scholarships is a good thing, but I just wonder if there isn't a way to simplify this management system.

  • Lindley Jones commented
    March 10, 2023 15:16

    "The process needs to be reworked. It is extremely cumbersome and utterly time consuming. I would estimate this process takes 15x the amount of time compared to our old process of using paper applications"

  • Lindley Jones commented
    March 10, 2023 15:05


    "As I finished the ratings for the Sutton scholarship and began the Allen ratings, I realized that many of these are the same students I already evaluated. The evaluation criteria are the same as well. Is there a way to import the scores from one scholarship to the next?"

  • Lindley Jones commented
    March 10, 2023 15:05


    "The main issue I'm seeing is the review process in BAM. We have a lot of students matched to multiple scholarships (up to 6 per student), multiplying the number of reviews to be done. We are choosing to not move forward with the software for this reason. It is too cumbersome and our Google applications work better for our department."

  • Lindley Jones commented
    March 10, 2023 15:05

    "There are more than 400 reviews for the STBE scholarships, and it looks like we are assigned to review the same students for multiple scholarships. Is there a way we can do this more efficiently. It seems a waste of my faculty's time to look at the same application many times for different scholarships."


  • Lindley Jones commented
    March 10, 2023 15:04


    "We all found it very irritating that we had to input the same information over and over again."


  • Lindley Jones commented
    March 10, 2023 15:04

    I will be posting feedback from our campus faculty as individual comments. Our university requires that reviews be anonymized, so please keep in mind we cannot review on a conditional level.


  • Lindley Jones commented
    February 07, 2023 17:20

    Commenting to bring this back up to QE staff. We have many departments refusing to utilize Blackbaud for this very reason. It's highly problematic

  • Josh Harris commented
    August 23, 2022 15:30

    My university is in a similar boat. We have had many reviewers complain about this very issue. Following - hoping for a new solution.