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September 8, 2026: Update Existing Students During Import

Managers can now create new students, send transfer requests, and update existing students' teacher and class assignments in a single CSV import.

Who this is for: Managers   |  Category: Quality of Life  |  Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍

What changed

The student CSV importer now recognizes students who are already in your enterprise and can apply updates to their records as part of the same import. On the Import Students Preview screen, the students in your file are grouped by what the import will do:

  • New students who will be created
  • Existing Off2Class users who will receive a transfer request
  • Existing students already in your enterprise who will be updated

For that third group, you choose how the teacher and class assignments in your CSV should be handled:

  • Add: Keep current assignments and add the ones from your CSV
  • Overwrite: Replace current assignments with the ones from your CSV
  • Unassign: Remove current assignments

You review the groups and your assignment choice before applying the import.

Why it matters

Roster maintenance is rarely one kind of change at a time. A mid-year import might carry a handful of brand-new students, a few who are moving between teachers, and a class of returning students whose section numbers just changed. Handling all of that from one file, in one preview, keeps roster work to a single pass.

The grouped preview is the other half of this. Seeing which students are new, which are transfers, and which will be updated means you can catch a mistyped email or an unintended assignment change while it is still a preview. That helps most during back-to-school and end-of-year rostering, when the files are long and an accidental change can leave a teacher looking at the wrong roster.

How to use it

Import your student CSV the way you normally do. On the Import Students Preview, check each group, pick how you want existing students' assignments handled, then apply the import. Full steps are in the related article below.

Note: Overwrite and Unassign both change assignments that already exist, so read through the "will be updated" group before you apply. If you only want to layer the assignments in your CSV on top of what's already there, Add leaves current teacher and class assignments in place.

Related article: Add a student

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