Bulk-adding Students To Degree Tracks

Derek Nichols

Bulk uploading certainly makes life easier, especially when working with data or groups of individuals. With that in mind, lets go over how life is now easier for degree managers and other faculty.As a degree manager, you can associate a degree with multiple students at once. We launched this feature earlier in the year, enabling you to start a group of students using graduation requirements.

There are a few scenarios in which you might find this tool helpful. For example, if your school is setting up graduation requirements via Blackbaud Education Management for the first time, you can use the bulk-add feature to place multiple students on a degree track at once. You might also use this feature at the start of a new academic year to place a class of incoming freshmen on a degree track, rather than setting them up one at a time.

In today’s blog post, we’ll walk you through the steps of associating a degree with students in bulk. For more information about setting up degrees, enabling degree managers, and adding degree requirements, see the help topic Degrees in our online help.

To get started, make sure you are in Academics and logged in as a user with the Degree Manager role. Select Grades, then Grades management. The Overview tab will open by default.




Select + Add degree to a group. This will open a new set of menu options.




Choose which type of category you will use to select students:

• List: Select an existing Student List.
• Classification: Select one of the classifications at your school.

Select Next.




Use the search bar to select a Degree to associate with the students. Select Next.




The final step is a verification check. Once you have confirmed that the selected students and the name of the degree are accurate, select Finish. A notification will appear at the bottom right of your browser window indicating that the process has begun.

When the process is complete, the degree you selected will be applied to students in the grade or list you selected. The students can now apply credits toward completion of the degree.

For more information and step-by-step instructions, check out the help topics Degrees, Requirements, and Degree Audit.