{"id":12603,"date":"2018-05-21T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T12:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/tutorial\/import-students\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:47:59","slug":"import-students","status":"publish","type":"tutorial","link":"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/en\/tutorial\/import-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Import Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible to import your students into your SchoolMate account. This is very useful when your account is first opened as you can upload all your current and historic students into SchoolMate.<\/p>\n<p>[vc_message color=&#8221;success&#8221; message_box_style=&#8221;solid-icon&#8221; message_box_color=&#8221;success&#8221; icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-check&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Importing students can be a difficult thing to do. SchoolMate is more than happy to do this for schools free of charge.<\/span>\u00a0[\/vc_message]<\/p>\n<p>Go to <strong>School Admin &#8211; Students &#8211; Import students:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1320.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8019 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1320.png\" alt=\"import students\" width=\"1350\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1320.png 1350w, https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1320-768x207.png 768w, https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1320-1280x345.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then download the Excel file and place your students on it for uploading.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Contents of the Excel File:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Excel file contains columns that correspond to all the fields on the basic student\/parent card. The only essential fields to complete are for first name and last name.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Points to remember:<\/span><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Email addresses will be rejected if they contain mistakes.<\/li>\n<li>Dates must be in the same date format &#8211; dd\/mm\/yyyy or mm\/dd\/yyyy as those your SchoolMate account uses. Dates must also be in TEXT format, not DATE format on the Excel sheet.<\/li>\n<li>Only 500 lines can be uploaded at one time, so you may need to breakdown the upload.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Additional Fields:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As mentioned above, the Excel file shows all the basic fields on the student card, but if you have created extra fields on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/en\/tutorial\/how-to-create-a-student\/#additional-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Additional Information<\/a><\/span> card you can also upload that information as those fields will show on the Excel file when you download it.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Uploading:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Once you have added your students to the Excel file, save it on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message]<span style=\"color: #333333;\">You may want to upload a small sample just to check that formats etc., are correct.<\/span>[\/vc_message]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Uploading a File with Errors:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After you have uploaded your file all the individual students will appear. If there is an error, this will be highlighted. If there is an error you must Cancel the upload and fix the errors in the file before uploading again &#8211; you may need to scroll down the page to see all errors in the file.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1348.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8022 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1348.png\" alt=\"File with Errors\" width=\"1346\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1348.png 1346w, https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1348-768x314.png 768w, https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1348-1280x523.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1346px) 100vw, 1346px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Uploading a File without Errors:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As this file has no errors a &#8220;Save&#8221; button appears. Click this to save the students:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1424.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8025 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1424.png\" alt=\"File without errors\" width=\"1079\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1424.png 1079w, https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1424-768x282.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1079px) 100vw, 1079px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next you will be asked if you want to save the upload into the Student section or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/en\/tutorial\/student-prospects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">Student Prospects<\/span><\/a> section. Click which is correct.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1427.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8031 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1427.png\" alt=\"Upload question\" width=\"473\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Final Name Check:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The system will perform one final check to look for duplicate students. These have been uploaded but you may want to check them in the system to avoid duplicates. You can delete them via their student card.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1428.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8034 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-21_1428.png\" alt=\"Duplicate students\" width=\"679\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-12603","tutorial","type-tutorial","status-publish","hentry","tutorialcategories-school-admin-students-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorial\/12603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorial"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tutorial"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolmate.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}