Contact Type / Description

Type of contact. Values include:

• SC <number> / Contact <number>
• SE <number> / Emergency Contact <number>.

Note: The SC1 contact is one or more of a student's primary contacts. At schools, the SC1 contact is normally one or both of a student's parents, even if the child does not live with the parent, due to the effect on family position and sibling discounts.

Note: When different students have the same SC1 contact, the students are listed as siblings in each other's Siblings bar. The SC1 contact also helps to determine who is displayed in a student's Relations bar.

Contact Name

Contact's name.

Lives With Flag

Selected if the student lives with the contact.

Note: In cases of shared custody, more than one contact can have Lives With Flag selected. The first listed Lives With Flag contact is used when extracting information from Synergetic for surveys that require a single address for a student (for example, DEST survey).

Parent

Selected if the contact is a parent.

Note: The parent contact is the person who is the parent from your organisation's perspective, not necessarily the natural parent. For example, if both parents are deceased and the uncle has custody and is as involved as a natural parent would be, then the uncle should be selected as the parent.

Selecting this flag adds the contact to the @PC (parent) constituency. They become a Past Parent (PP) or member of the @SCOC constituency if not selected.

Mail

Selected if the contact wants to receive mail from your organisation regarding this student.

Reports

Selected if the contact wants to receive reports for this student.

Primary

Selected if addressing this person only and not their spouse.

Note: Use to suppress communication with a partner if they are not relevant from your organisation's perspective for this student. For example, a de-facto partner or non-natural parents.

ID

Synergetic ID of the community member.

Add a new contact.

Edit the selected contact.

Delete the selected contact.

Search Filter

The Search Filter field is located at the top of the Student Selector. This field can be used to filter students by any of the information displayed in the Student Selector.

For example to filter students by name simply type either the student's:

• last name
• first name
• last name then first name separated by a comma.

To filter students by year level simply type the student's year level in the Search Filter field.

Create a new student. See Creating new students.

Display the Current Student Maintenance Search Criteria window.

You can update the search criteria and search for new students. See Searching for students.

Customise how the bars are displayed. See Customising navigation bars in the Introduction manual.

Create a new task relating to the current student. See Managing tasks in the Introduction manual.

Click:

• to expand all bars
• to collapse all bars
• to refresh information for the selected staff member.