Multi-platform Read Receipt / Tracking for Email

MattSpeller

I've got a request from HR to setup a way to verify people have read the new policy and agree with it. This is to do away with tedious signing of paper forms as we have staff on lots of remote places on this planet.

The only thing it really needs to do is acknowledge that you've read the darned stuff and agree with it.

I was thinking of a link in the email that you'd click on to "agree", with it going to a website where you enter your name or better yet have it autofilled or something clever like that. Custom links for each person would be tedious.

Requirements:

Platform or device agnostic; has to work on anything you can get email on (mac, windows, phone, webmail, etc)
Tracks who read or agreed to the thing (by user name, email, voodoo, sunspots, whatever)
Even a cave(wo)man could do it

Suggestions?

stacksofplates

@MattSpeller said:

I've got a request from HR to setup a way to verify people have read the new policy and agree with it. This is to do away with tedious signing of paper forms as we have staff on lots of remote places on this planet.

The only thing it really needs to do is acknowledge that you've read the darned stuff and agree with it.

I was thinking of a link in the email that you'd click on to "agree", with it going to a website where you enter your name or better yet have it autofilled or something clever like that. Custom links for each person would be tedious.

Requirements:

Platform or device agnostic; has to work on anything you can get email on (mac, windows, phone, webmail, etc)

Tracks who read or agreed to the thing (by user name, email, voodoo, sunspots, whatever)

Even a cave(wo)man could do it

Suggestions?

It might be overkill but I built a messaging system with Drupal for the shop floor. They log in and click a check box that they read the message and save the check.

But a more reasonable thing might be a form using Google forms that's emailed to each person and requires that they check a box or sign their name.

MattSpeller

@johnhooks said:

Google forms

Bloody hell, why didn't I think of that - thank you

scottalanmiller

Sharepoint is popular for that, too.

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller said:

Sharepoint is popular for that, too.

Good call, I'll consider that next time