Teams - Linking last year groups back into SDS

[Steve21]

Good Evening All,

 

It seems last year this school had a lot of manual teams created for subjects that they want to keep using, however as they aren't "real classes" within SIMs as they expired last year I'm struggling to find a way to link them back into SDS to get them to update with new joiners/leavers.

 

The SIS value on Teams can this be manually changed after a profile already exists to be able to link it to something that is sync'ing? Or would this destroy teams?

 

Any smart thoughts of how to do it without spending hours manually adding and removing people?

 

Many thanks,

Steve

[browolf]

If they add the group created by SDS to their team. wouldn't that auto update their team from then on?

[Steve21]

So you mean like using the 365 group it creates to add as team members to the old group, but then ignoring the "new" team it's created? So it should still work with sync'ing updating members to both teams, but really only the older one is used?

 

Hmm that's an interesting thought!

 

Steve

[browolf]

So you mean like using the 365 group it creates to add as team members to the old group, but then ignoring the "new" team it's created? So it should still work with sync'ing updating members to both teams, but really only the older one is used?

 

Hmm that's an interesting thought!

 

Steve

 

Last I heard, they'd stopped SDS creating teams, so you wouldn't get a "new" team.

[supportman]

We had this issue and decided to move to teachers creating the teams from distribution lists created by salamandersoft.

 

Gives the best of both worlds and allows 2 or 3 year teams to be setup.