luYearLevel lookup table (Next Year Process)

Description

The luYearLevel lookup table is used to define:

  • if and how to transfer students to the next academic year
  • whether to clear or keep certain student data when transferring to the next academic year
  • other standard options for each year level, such as the year level coordinators.

You must ensure year levels are reported correctly by mapping Synergetic lookup table values to the year level values used by each external system (e.g. ACARA). See Using the Interface Settings window.

You can map gender values for the following external systems:

  • ACARA - Australian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
  • ACTGOVDEMO - ACT  Government Demographic Data Collection
  • SIF - Systems Interoperability Framework.

Rules for creating new academic years

You must have the next year's campus and year levels defined. When you create the new academic year, the particular year level is 'rolled up' into the next year level (and possibly a different campus).

You must specify the next year level for both boys and girls if your organisation is co-educational. If there is no valid next year level defined, the students are not transferred.

Select the relevant flags to clear the Form, House, Tutor Group and two Locker fields, if required.

Examples






Fields

Note: You can define the order of the luYearLevel lookup table fields in drop-down lists using the FieldOrderCSV configuration setting. Organisations upgrading to Version 70 from an earlier version of Synergetic will automatically have the FieldOrderCSV configuration setting pre-configured for the luYearLevel lookup table. See FieldOrderCSV configuration setting.

Field

Description

Code

Numeric code for the year level.

Description

Description title for the year level-campus combination.

Campus

Campus code for the year level.

Each campus is defined in the luCampus lookup table.

When creating current students, if you have different year levels at each campus, you can filter the Year Level based on the selected Campus. In the following example, the Senior campus is selected. The Year Level drop-down list only shows year levels that apply to the campus.

This uses the Code and Description fields:

  • based on the selected Campus
  • sorted using the YearLevelSort field.

YearLevelSort

Number used to sort the drop-down list of year levels.

YearLevelCoordinator

Name of the coordinator for the year level-campus combination.

NextYearCampusMale

Campus to transfer male students to, who are in this year level-campus combination, when creating a new academic year.

NextYearLevelMale

Year level to transfer male students to, who are in this year level-campus combination, when creating a new academic year.

Note: Set the value for year 12 students to an invalid year level so that they will not be transferred to the next academic year. For example, 99.

NextYearCampusFemale

Campus to transfer female students to, who are in this year level-campus combination, when creating a new academic year.

NextYearLevelFemale

Year level to transfer female students to, who are in this year level-campus combination, when creating a new academic year.

Note: Set the value for year 12 students to an invalid year level so that they will not be transferred to the next academic year. For example, 99.

NextYearCampusOtherCampus to transfer non-binary students to, who are in this year level-campus combination, when creating a new academic year.
NextYearLevelOther

Year level to transfer non-binary students to, who are in this year level-campus combination, when creating a new academic year.

Note: Set the value for year 12 students to an invalid year level so that they will not be transferred to the next academic year. For example, 99.

TimetableGroup

Timetable group code for the year level-campus combination.

Note: You can define timetable groups in the luTimetableGroup lookup table. See luTimetableGroup lookup table in the System maintenance manual.

ClearFormFlag

Select this field to clear the Form field on the School tab of students who are transferred when the new academic year is created.

See Current Student Maintenance - School in the Current students manual.

ClearHouseFlag

Select this field to clear the House field on the School tab of students who are transferred when the new academic year is created.

See Current Student Maintenance - School tab in the Current students manual.

ClearTutorFlag

Select this field to clear the Tutor field on the School tab of students who are transferred when the new academic year is created.

See Current Student Maintenance - School in the Current students manual.

YearsUntilGraduation

Used to determine peer year when transferring current students to past students. For example year 12 students have 0 years until graduation, while year 7 students have 5 years until graduation.

Important Note: This field must be set consistently across all year levels, or Synergetic's calculation of a student's Peer Year may be incorrect.

CEOLanguagePolicyCode

CEO language policy code for the selected year level. Typical values include:

  • CL - Compulsory
  • CLEAL - Compulsory (except for EAL students)
  • O - Optional.

YearLevelGroup

Link the year level to a year level group. These can be used to:

  • link year levels for custom Crystal Reports
  • filter whether award points are applied to students based on their year level on the Awards sub-tab of Subject Assessment Maintenance. See Defining criteria and points for an award in the Curriculum manual.

    Note: You can define year level groups in the luYearLevelGroup lookup table. See luYearLevelGroup lookup table in the System maintenance manual.

    Important Note: This field must be set consistently across all year levels, or Synergetic's calculation of a student's Peer Year may be incorrect.

SubSchool

Sub-school that the year level applies to. This is used mostly by multi-campus organisations that provide schooling for all year levels at each campus.

For example, year levels can be grouped into a:

  • junior school
  • middle school
  • senior school.


    For example, you can search for current students based on their sub-school.

    Note: You can define sub-schools in the luSubSchool lookup table. See luSubSchool lookup table in the System maintenance manual.

FormFieldName

The values for the year level as stored as either:

  • Form and Home Room
  • TutorGroup.

This is primarily used for exports that require a field called Form. For example if Home Room is stored then that will be exported as Form.

ExternalSystemCode

Used to nominate the Normal Year Level that applies to the year level.

Usually this is a one-to-one correspondence.

ExternalSystemTypeUsed for mapping data to external systems.

ClearLockerBookFlag

Select this field to clear the Locker Book field on the School tab of students who are transferred when the new academic year is created.

Students can be assigned new lockers at the start of the academic year. For example, students may have to transfer to different lockers when they move to a new tutor group based in a different cluster.

See Current Student Maintenance - School in the Current students manual.

ClearLockerOtherFlag

Select this field to clear the Locker Other field on the School tab of students who are transferred when the new academic year is created.

Students can be assigned new secondary lockers at the start of the academic year.

See Current Student Maintenance - School tab in the Current students manual.

ExportSortKeyGroup

Used for sorting NCEA exports at New Zealand schools. NCEA is part of the New Zealand National Qualifications Framework. See the National Certificates of Educational Achievement (http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications-standards/qualifications/ncea/) web site.

Available values are:

  • Form
    • *House
    • YearLevel*

  • TutorGroup
    • *YearLevel
    • House{*}.
IncludeInCensusFlag

Whether to include the selected year level in student census exports.

CommPortalPublishFlag

All of the year levels you have selected are displayed on the community portal.

YearLevelCoordID

Synergetic ID of the year level coordinator for the year level-campus combination.

CommPortalOverrideConfigKey5

Type in a unique value to represent this year level if you want to configure aspects of the Community Portal differently for this year level.
You can use the same value for several year levels if you want to configure them as a group in the Community Portal. For example, SEN for the senior year levels.

MaxStudents

Maximum number of students of the specified gender that should exist in this year level. This field is only used for reporting purposes.

EducationType

Type of education for the selected year level. You can select:

  • Primary
  • Secondary.

Note: This field is used to categorise students in the Student Disability Adjustment Crystal Report. See Key current students reports in the Current students manual.

HomeGroupDefinition

Use this field to define a custom value for student home groups.

The following replaceable fields can be used:

  • {Form}
  • {Tutor}
  • {House}
  • {Year}.

For example, you could type {Form}-{Year}{Tutor}.

ModifiedDate

Date and time the lookup table entry was last modified.

ModifiedUser

User that last modified the lookup table entry.