Bulk import
Loading students, staff or alumni from a spreadsheet, safely.
For loading many records at once — opening a new school on the system, or importing alumni.
Always dry-run first
An import is validated before it is applied, and it tells you what it would do. Read that. It is much cheaper than unpicking two thousand rows afterwards.
Rows fail individually
A bad row is reported and skipped rather than failing the whole file, so you fix the rows that need fixing and re-run.
Duplicates
The importer looks for people it thinks already exist. Check those before overriding — a duplicated guardian means a family with two logins and half their children on each.
Get the guardian link right
The commonest import problem is not a rejected row; it is an accepted one where the guardian link is missing. The row loads, the student exists, and the family cannot see them.
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