Student groups
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Student group offers is where student groups are defined and maintained. Groups of students can be defined for many purposes, the most common being for Roll Classes and Houses, but includes activities such as an Excursions, Sport and Music, etc. Any need for defining a group of students can be accommodated here.
Student groups have certain information to identify them, plus have students and optionally staff assigned to the group.
There are two methods for creating a new student group:
- create a new group from a blank template
- clone (or copy) an existing group
The Search Screen displayed on selecting Student Group Offers is used to list the groups in your school. By default all groups are listed for the current calendar year. This can be altered by changing the search criteria:
- School: Display your default school name.
- Calendar Year: Show groups for this calendar year.
- Scholastic Year: Show groups for this scholastic year, or ' All' scholastic years.
- Offering Status: Show groups which are Available, Draft or Cancelled, default is 'Available'.
- Available: available to all staff to view and maintain, staff and student can be added into group.
- Draft: personal use ONLY, only the user creating the group can view the group, staff and student can be added into group.
- Cancelled: group can not be deleted, only cancelled.
- Enrolment Type: Show groups which belong to this enrolment type, default is 'All '.
- Activity Type: Show groups for this activity type, default is 'All '.
- Staff: Show groups which have this staff member assigned to them. Using magnifying glass beside field to search staff name.
Once any changes to the selected details have been set, hit Go to activate the search.
Processing keys
- Go: Start Search
- Clone: Clone a selected group
- Create: Create a new group
Quick reference guides
- QRG - How to create a Best Start Assessment Class (PDF 146.34KB)
- QRG - How to Clone an Existing Best Start Assessment Class (PDF 175.26KB)
- QRG - How to Search a Student Group by Staff (PDF 84.71KB)
- QRG - How to Create a Literacy and Numeracy Focus Group (PDF 158.49KB) (Date Updated: 28-Jan-2010)
- ERN Help Index