Renaming of student groups

When you give a name to a student group for the first time, you are totally free to choose any name you want, typical names such as a standard combination of class and subject (e.g. BE_1A) (you can also use a wild card) are possible as well as free descriptions (e.g. “Volleyball higher levels”).

What is important is that any names or designations will not be changed anymore after you imported them to WebUntis and used them in the class register. As was mentioned before, the student group identifies a certain lesson in combination with a 'subject'. Another student group brings about another (a new) lesson in WebUntis which can lead to the loss of information from the past (teaching material, absence control) which has up to that point in time been connected to this specific lesson.

When you change the name of a student group Untis has two possibilities to react to it; both possibilities can also jointly occur.

Example 1: Lesson in several terms

Lesson GWK in 1A without student group:

In term 2, a student group called GWK_1A should be entered:

Untis provides you with two possibilities:

a)The change is also carried out in term 1 (retrospectively), in any succeeding terms this is done automatically

b)Lesson 26 of term 1 is completed (without any changes) and a precise copy (incl. timetable schedulings) is created as of term 2

The outcome of a) can possibly lead to the loss of class register content (teaching material, absence control) from the past.

The outcome of b) including term overview:

Term 1:

Term 2:

Example 2: Several lessons with the same combination subject/student group

In class 1A the lesson for D is split between two lesson lines, because there is assistance for five periods, one period does not have any assistance.

Due to this joint student group D_1A, a 6 period lesson is created for D in WebUntis.

If you now try to rename the student group at one point, Untis reacts the following:

Untis recognises that student group D_1A comes up in lesson 1206 and in lesson 24.

a)Yes: Renaming should be carried out for all D_1A occurrences, just like a serial change.

b)No: Only lesson 1206 is renamed. This cuts of the connection between 1206 and 24, the combination of both lessons to ONE is cancelled when it is exported to WebUntis and two separate lessons remain for D in WebUntis.

The outcome of a) (possibly after updating):

Renaming is also carried out in any mother or child terms.

The outcome of b) (possibly after updating):

When there are mother terms, an additional question will come up according to example 1, whether 1206 shall also be changed in the mother term or if a copy of 1206 should be created for the current term and 1206 should be deleted: