SkieHow do I promote a whole group to the next year in Skie?
Use the promote action on the group. The whole class moves up to its next-year group in one step, with their devices, students and history intact. Rules switch to the new group's policy and app list at the next sync. No seats change, because nobody is added or removed.
Every school faces the same job each spring: Class 6 becomes Class 7, a batch moves to the next module, a hostel floor moves up a block. Doing this student by student would take days. Promote does it for the group.
When you promote, the students in the group move together to the next group. Their devices stay with them, and so do their records. The next-year group has its own policy and app list, which could be broader for older students, so they gain or lose access on their first sync after the change.
Prepare before you press the button. Create the destination groups and give each the policy and app list it should have. Check the effective policy view for one device, and use the impact preview to see what will change. Think about whether the older group needs different schedules, such as a later night mode for senior hostel students.
Seats are not affected, since the students and devices stay. Where students are leaving at the end of their final year, release their devices through the lifecycle tools, which frees the seats for the new intake. When you need more seats for the new intake, ask the Skie team to grant them.
Practical tip: keep the group names year-neutral if you can, such as Grade 7 A, so the promote step is a move between named groups and the names make sense in reports.