Defining groups
As well as defining students, teachers and parents, you need to define groups for forms, years and classes. You can also define custom groups.
You define groups in a file calledgroups.csv
, and refer to groups either by their ID (recommended) or Name elsewhere (for example when defining what year a student is in). Each group goes on its own line.You will need to add a group for each year group that students are in, forms that students are in, and class groups that students are in. You can optionally add custom groups.
Column header | Data type | Description | Example |
---|---|---|---|
ID | Text containing only characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and -. | A unique, un-changing identifier for the group (often generated from your MIS). | 232341 |
Name | Text | The group's name. | Year 7 |
Here is an example CSV file which can be used as a base to start from: