Update Students

If your student information system (SIS) is integrated with SameGoal:

• Student and parent demographics on each student's Basics and Details tabs are automatically updated nightly.
• If you find a student's information is incorrect in SameGoal, correct the information in your SIS. After the nightly integration runs, you will see the information updated in SameGoal the following morning.
• Avoid changing student and parent demographics in SameGoal directly, unless a given student is not included in your SIS (and was entered manually). Changed demographics in SameGoal for any student also entered in your SIS will be overwritten within 24 hours by the integration. The SIS is considered the "canonical" source of student and parent demographics when the two systems are integrated.
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    The only exception to this may be if the student is inactive and no longer included in the nightly feed from your SIS.

Update students:

• Update SIS Student ID
• Update Student Basics
• Update Student Details (prefill/copy information)

Update SIS Student ID link

Update a student's SIS Student ID when:

• You find the current number entered for the student is wrong
• The student was previously given a temporary ID (eg student was a non-enrolled preschooler) and is now about to enroll/become added to the SIS (and you know what the student's new ID will be)

To update a student's SIS Student ID:

1. Visit Students / create new in the left menu.
2. Search for the student you wish to update.
3. Visit the Basics tab.
4. Next to the current SIS Student ID, click the change link.
5. Enter the New SIS Student ID.
6. Click Save.

Update Student Basics link

Each student's Basics tab contains information used on list pages:

• Student first and last name
• Print SIS Student ID (printed in documents)
• Building (affects user access via user roles)

To update student Basics information:

1. Visit Students / create new in the left menu.
2. Search for the student you wish to update.
3. Visit the Basics tab.
4. Update the relevant information.
5. Click Save.

Update Student Details link

Student and parent demographics entered on each student's Details tab prefill/copy into documents. If no information is entered, none will be available for document prefill/copying.

To update student details:

1. Visit Students / create new in the left menu.
2. Search for the student you wish to update.
3. Visit the Details tab.
4. Update the relevant information. Information will autosave.

Simply updating the Details tab for a given student will NOT automatically update any existing documents (so as to not overwrite intentional changes/additions or overwrite historical documents). However, the next time a document is created for this student, the newly updated information will be used for prefill. To update student/parent demographics in existing incomplete documents, visit the document and click the Update Student/Parent Info button (found at the top of most documents when relevant).