About Pupil Custom Groups

The Pupil Custom Groups function enables you to create reusable, customised groups, add pupils to them and manage the groups. You can use this function to set up groups of pupils for a specific event or set of events, for example. Once configured, pupil custom groups can be retrieved and used in other modules, e.g. when adding or editing a Pastoral Management record or a Pupil Event record or when adding pupil email recipients in the Email function. The pupil custom groups configured in 3sysACADEMIC are also available within specific searches, such as pupil and contact account searches, for Administrators using WCBS schoolPORTAL.

Example: If your school is putting on a summer theatre production, e.g. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', and pupils from across all years are involved, you may wish to create a 'Midsummer Night's Dream' pupil group. This will enable you to easily email the relevant pupils and their parents regarding rehearsals and costumes, for example. In addition, you could set up Markbook Tasks specific to the play, such as 'Team work' and 'Acting capability', and record and assess the pupils' progress.

Using the Pupil Custom Groups function in 3sysACADEMIC, you can:

• Add pupil custom groups, via the Setup or Pupil modules.
• View existing pupil custom groups.
• Export lists or details of pupil custom groups to MS Excel.
• Edit pupil custom groups.
• Add individual pupils to custom groups, via either the Setup or Pupil modules.
• Delete pupil custom groups.