what is a best practice for Reinstateing a past Student

Hi @Ossy Goldenberg and @Elizabeth Perron, this might get more traction in the K-12 section.

Chris

@Ossy Goldenberg, I don't believe what you're proposing is possible. Students enrolled for an upcoming school year are either Students (if they're enrolled in the current year) or Incoming Students (if they're newly enrolled). There isn't a third option to classify past students who are returning; they would simply be an Incoming Student like others who are entering for the upcoming school year.

Are you expecting this past student to reapply, or are you going to enroll straightaway without going through an admissions process? If it's the latter, I would recommend setting up a different checklist that only has a contract on it, and assign whichever enrollment contract you would like to use. That way, the student would be an Incoming Student, but you'd be able to filter by the type of checklist.

Another option would be to assign a different type of enrollment contract to the past student, and report on students by their enrollment contract type. If you use this method, you will need to set the past student up as an Incoming Student first (using the “Re-enroll in School” function in Core) and make sure the parent has a Blackbaud ID assigned to be able to access the portal to complete the contract.

@Ossy Goldenberg If the student is already in as an Incoming Student, then you need to go into Core and on the Access tab, under Personas, click the pencil and select Undo Incoming Student Enrollment. That will change the student back to a candidate, and at that point you can do what you need to get the student set up with an application or whatever other paperwork you need.