Individual creation
Use individual creation when:- the school is adding a small number of students
- an operator needs to carefully review each field
- the student has special placement details
Bulk imports
Bulk import is the better path when a school is onboarding or moving large student sets.Duplicate caution
Student identity cannot be guaranteed from name matching alone. Two different students may legitimately share similar or identical names, while a single student may appear in multiple naming arrangements. That means duplicate handling should be treated as operator assistance, not as automatic truth.Suggested operating rule
- use fuzzy matching to surface likely related students
- let the operator decide whether the row is new or existing
- avoid hard-blocking imports based only on names