Progress Reports

Staying informed on what is being accomplished by your team and the challenges they may face is important. Appward’s Progress Reports app enhances communication, effective resource allocation, performance tracking, planning, and knowledge sharing.

The absence of status reports from employees, managers or team leads can result in a lack of transparency, difficulty in issue identification, hindered decision-making and missed opportunities for improvement. Implementing an organized reporting solution is beneficial for promoting effective communication, driving productivity, and ensuring overall success.

Staying informed on what is being accomplished by your team and the challenges they may face is important. Appward’s Progress Reports app enhances communication, effective resource allocation, performance tracking, planning, and knowledge sharing.

The absence of status reports from employees, managers or team leads can result in a lack of transparency, difficulty in issue identification, hindered decision-making and missed opportunities for improvement. Implementing an organized reporting solution is beneficial for promoting effective communication, driving productivity, and ensuring overall success.

Prepare and submit thorough progress reports to inform management of current work status

  • Align reports with the type of updates you receive from team members
  • Compose reports within an HTML field and format text to highlight important information to help keep upper management in the loop
  • Notify members when reports are ready to be reviewed and request feedback

Communicate feedback and open discussions

  • Members can provide direct feedback on reports
  • Be notified when someone has submitted feedback
  • Discuss reports before and after submission utilizing posts to communicate with members
  • Schedule reminders to ensure timely preparation, submission, and feedback

Progress Reports App Features

  • Use the HTML editor tools for formatting, headings, styling, and highlighting key points
  • Ensure well-structured and visually appealing content for easy comprehension
  • Clearly identify the submitter’s name or username
  • Include a concise title or description summarizing the report’s content and purpose for quick relevance
  • Choose between public visibility or limiting access to specific members
  • Utilize the Contacts integration to grant access to relevant stakeholders, such as management or team leads
  • Leverage a visual progress bar to indicate draft, feedback, or completion stages
  • Send notifications to members when your report is complete and ready for feedback
  • Members can add feedback using the HTML editor tools to customize and format feedback
  • Apply formatting options such as text styling, headings, or highlighting to make your comments clear and organized
  • Click on the notification or alert to notify the report author that feedback is ready for their review and attention
  • Set up reminders to notify you when it’s time to submit feedback
  • Configure the frequency and timing of the reminders based on a preferred day and time
  • Select relevant team members, managers, or stakeholders, to receive notifications
  • Craft a customized message that clearly conveys the purpose of the reminder and any specific instructions or expectations.
  • Access a log of active reminders to see details such as recipients and scheduled delivery
  • Collaborate with team members on progress reports for additional feedback, updates and input
  • Add at-mentions to send Notifications to team members regarding a report
  • Like messages in Posts with a single click of the thumbs-up icon to automatically trigger a Notification
  • Attach documents, images, media and AppShare direct links to any record to and from any Appward app
  • Enlarge any attached document, image or media by double-clicking the file
  • Edit your message by clicking on the pencil icon if you need to modify or update your not
  • Authors of each message posted can delete their own comments
  • Manage all files associated with each progress report record without having to look through various locations to gather esssential information
  • Store documents, images or other media-rich files that are affiliated with each report
  • Select and upload files directly from your computer and store them within tickets designated record file
  • Access the Appward cloud file explorer and select files from organizational, personal and public folders
  • Link files from Appward’s Document system via Documents
  • Edit and change files after uploading
  • Download files directly to your computer
  • Use arrow keys to organize files
  • Popout each file into its own window to view it at scale
  • Take and log notes directly within each progress report record to keep information in context
  • Organize notes within folders for quick navigation
  • Use the HTML editor to format notes and highlight key information accordingly
  • Create notes with the drawing tool for a quick visual concepting of ideas
  • Deleted notes are auto-stored in a Deleted Items folder for retrieval if needed