Efficiently Updating Student Records After Promotion
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We’re facing a challenge with our student naming system where we use a format like “Smith_Grade2324” to indicate students’ grades. As students have been promoted to the next grade, we need to update their names to reflect their new grades.
What’s the best way to efficiently update the records for all students to reflect their new grade levels? Are there any tools or processes you recommend for batch editing or automating this update to minimize manual work and avoid errors?
I’d appreciate any insights or suggestions you have!
Abdul
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Hi @AbdulKhadar
You said - We’re facing a challenge with our student naming system where we use a format like “Smith_Grade2324” to indicate students’ grades. As students have been promoted to the next grade, we need to update their names to reflect their new grades.
- to borrow an old Irish joke, "If I was going to Dublin I wouldn't start from here ....."
Students have a one to many relationship with many aspects of curriculum and life - their identity is a constant - by adding the grade to the identifier you have given them a different identity for each grade/year.
I'm struggling to understand why that would be a design choice ....
In my view you need to abandon this folly and de-grade the names asap - there are a host of admin side ways to deal with this in your Student Information System, including setting identifiers within the data that feeds the delivery enrolment or course enrolment .....
