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Student Attributes are user-defined fields of information you wish to maintain about a Student. Student Attributes are different to Contact Attributes:

  • Student Attributes are pieces of information about a Student, available to all Parent Contacts for that Student
  • Contact Attributes are fields specific to a Parent Contact. They are only visible to that Contact, and not to other Contacts for the Student


To If you are an EdSmart Administrator, you can access Student Attributes click by clicking your user name at the top right of the page, and select selecting the Settings option.

Once on the Settings page, select Student Attributes. This opens up the Student Attributes view page, as shown below.

You can change the Sort Order by clicking the Sort By Name button, or search for a particular Attribute by entering keywords in the Search box and clicking the Search button.

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Click the Edit button at the end of each row to view the detail of a Attribute. You may be shown an alert warning:

Editing an Attribute that has already been used for a Student could lead to incorrect display of information if you change the Attribute's name or options. Are you sure you wish to proceed?

The warning is ensuring you understand that if one or more Students already have values for this Attribute, you could cause confusion by editing the Attribute, for example, changing the name of the attribute. You will also not be able to edit any associated options (in the case of a Checkbox field or a List field).

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By default Attributes can be edited, either by a User updating a Student in EdSmart, or a Parent Contact updating a field on a Parent Slip. You can also make Student Attributes Read Only, so imported values cannot be updated. If the value is a web page link, it will be automatically create a clickable link when displayed - perfect for a link to an online payment page.
If you want to use the Attribute to present current information to parents and enable them to update it directly in the Slip, then you will need to select this option.
 
Include in Exports?
 
You can nominate an Attribute to be always included in exports of Parents Slips, it's a great way to ensure, for example red flags for health issues are always visible.
Assign to Activity Care?
Selecting this option will enable the Student Attribute to appear in the Activity Care tab.
Trigger Medical Alert?

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Student Attributes as Medical Alerts from within the EdSmart Interface. Students with medical alerts will be flagged in Slip Responses and Student profile page to ensure staff are aware of their medical information when participating in activities. To find out more about Medical Alerts click here.

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Student Attribute fields will be displayed, and can be edited, as part of a Student record:


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