Indication whether siblings are current students
From the directory or in a contact card, it would be useful to see if a sibling is actually a current student. Someone who is not aware of all the comings and goings of families may wrongfully think a student has a sibling in the school. Especially since we use onBoard, the sibling relation is created, but the candidate declines. If the current grade of a student were put beside their name (nn) in all occurrences, directory entries, candidate card headings, sibling relations, etc. this may work. Graduated could have the 'nn with the class of designation.
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- Oct 20 2015
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In the release that came out today, you can use the Work Lists to see if the Candidate sibling is a student, which is a step in the right direction.
This is an issue we have been working with as well- it's useful to have the full data for a family, especially if you want to send targeted marketing to every enrolled student that has a sibling who could be eligible for a certain grade or program.
However, we haven't been able to find an efficient way to do so, and it takes resources to maintain that account in the database. Since we ultimately aren't doing anything with it, we haven't been collecting sibling data.
This may be an issue of compartmentalization as well. The way we are set up at least, it's very difficult for Admission to pull anything for currently Enrolled students, which can be a blessing and a curse.