How we Migrate Student Enrolment

This article provides guidance on migrating student enrolments into Arbor from various Management Information Systems (MIS) like SIMS, Bromcom, and others. It explains the differences in terminology, the migration of enrolment modes, and the process for enrolling students into groups or courses. It also highlights that automatic enrolments are not migrated and that past registration forms from ScholarPack are not included.

Enrolment in Arbor can be tricky to get to grips with due to similarly named things in your previous MIS. We recommend taking a look here for a quick introduction: Glossary of key terminology for enrolment, timetabling and registers.

Please note the following can vary for a GroupCall API migrator, we are working on adding the GroupCall Migrator specifications to this guide. If you need to raise any data discrepancies post migration please contact Arbor support or your dedicated partner and we will be advised of the next steps.

Enrolment in the school

We migrate student enrolments from SIMS, Bromcom, Integris, Progresso, ScholarPack and CMIS.

We migrate enrolment modes from SIMS, Bromcom, Integris, Progresso and ScholarPack. If you migrated from CMIS, you will need to add these: Adding guest students and changing enrolment modes

Enrolment in student groups

You may have previously used the term 'Teaching group'. In Arbor, we call these 'Courses'. TimeTabler also uses the term 'Teaching group' to refer to classes, so bear that in mind if you will be importing from TimeTabler.

We migrate Teaching Groups, plus the students and staff assigned to them from SIMS, Bromcom and Progresso into the 'Courses' area of Arbor.

Teaching Groups in Arbor instead refer to a way of quickly enrolling students who share the same classes into their registers. Students in Curriculum Groups in SIMS will have been migrated to Teaching Groups in Arbor.

Please note that:

• No automatic enrolments are migrated, so if you have new students to add to groups, you will need to add them manually, or set up an automatic enrolment: Bulk enrol students to add them into lesson registers
• We do not migrate information about past registration forms from ScholarPack, only information about what registration form the student is currently in this academic year.