SkieCan we promote a whole class to the next grade in one go?
Yes. Skie can promote a whole group, so students move to the next grade's group together and pick up its policy and app list. Individual students can also be moved singly or in bulk by selecting existing students. A bulk upload of new students from a file is not available yet.
Promotion is the biggest single job at the end of the year, and doing it student by student would be painful. Skie has a promote action on a group. The class moves up as a unit, and the students take on the rules and app list of the new grade without anyone touching a tablet.
Before you promote, make sure the destination group exists and has its policy and app list. Rules flow down by structure, so a student arriving in Class 9A is governed by whatever Class 9A has attached, plus the school and organisation above it. That is why building the next year's groups first makes the day easy.
Not every case is a clean promotion. A student who repeats a year, changes section or moves branch can be moved singly. Moving several students at once works by selecting existing students and choosing a destination. This is not a spreadsheet upload. Bulk upload of new students is not available yet, and the team is working on it.
The tablet and the student stay linked through the move, so history stays, seats stay and nobody needs to re-enrol. After the move, the new rules reach the tablet in seconds if it is online, and at the next sync if it is not.
A practical tip: promote in the holidays and not on the first morning of term. Then check the groups the next day with the Insights view for policy reach, so you can see any tablet that has not picked up the new list. Tell teachers that the grade apps have changed, so the first lesson is not spent wondering where something went.