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<h1>Customizing Demographics<a class="headerlink" href="#customizing-demographics" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
<p>SchoolTool allows you to modify the demographic information stored about each Person. If you are using SchoolTool as the primary student information system for a school, you will probably need to customize the demographics fields to meet your local government’s reporting requirements.</p>
<p>Note that <strong>Prefix, First name, Middle name, Suffix</strong> and <strong>Preferred name</strong> are not customizable. “Preferred name” is the name which a student prefers to be used by teachers, or for teachers the name they prefer to have used in correspondence with parents and students.</p>
<p><strong>Gender</strong> and <strong>Birthdate</strong> also cannot be changed.</p>
<p>You can limit fields to specific Groups, such as Students, Teachers or Administrators. For example, this would allow you to have a “Certification” field for People in the “Teachers” Group that would not appear when you edited any other People.</p>
<p>Contact information – parents’ names, address, phone, email, etc. – is stored separately.</p>
<p>To edit the default demographics fields, you must be logged in as a member of <strong>Site Managers</strong>. Select the <strong>School</strong> tab, and then click on the <strong>Customize: Demographics</strong> link in the sidebar.</p>
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<p>In the default settings, <strong>ID, Ethnicity, Language, Place of birth, and Citizenship</strong> can be edited or removed. In this case, <strong>ID</strong> is just a generic text field which you can use for any student ID or number you might need to track.</p>
<p>You can delete, edit, and re-order the existing fields, and you can add your own custom fields.</p>
<p>In this example we will:</p>
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<li>delete “Citizenship”;</li>
<li>reorder fields;</li>
<li>change the values in the “Ethnicity” list;</li>
<li>add “Enrollment Date”.</li>
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<p>To delete a field, click <strong>Actions: Reorder or Delete Fields</strong> in the sidebar, and then click the red minus (<strong>-</strong>) icon next to the field you’d like to delete. You can also reorder the fields here by changing the numbers in the first column of the table. In both cases, the changes are applied immediately.</p>
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<p>To edit the values in a selection list from the main <strong>Demographics and Personal Information</strong> screen, click on the title of the field – for example, <strong>Ethnicity</strong>:</p>
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<p>To change the list values, simply edit the values in the <strong>Selection List</strong> text box. Each line defines one value. You can also specify whether the field is required, and if it should be limited to Students, Teachers and/or Administrators.</p>
<p>You can add six different types of fields:</p>
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<li>Integer Field: for whole numbers;</li>
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<li>Yes/No Field: for a true/false boolean value;</li>
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<p>For our example, we will add an “Enrollment Date” field for the “Students” Group. Click on <strong>Add: Date Field</strong>:</p>
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