names in the system with a preferred name. However, what are your thoughts
on asking SIS vendors to have a preferred last name field as well? I am
trying to make a case to our SIS vendor (Veracross), that this is a
necessary feature.
As an example, John Robert Smith might have Bob in the preferred name field
so that teachers can call him Bob, while John Smith is printed on the repor=
t
card and transcript. There, we only need the preferred first name. However,
we might have Beatriz Isabela Seixas dos Santos Cardoso, who is commonly
knows as Isabela Seixas. In this case, I can put Isabela in the preferred
name field, but I have no way to indicate that her preferred last name is
Seixas. For legal reasons, we must have the full name in the system because
they are used with travel documents for school trips.
How many of you would find a preferred last name field useful, or do you
have other suggestions?
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Derrel Fincher
Director of Information and Communication Technology
Graded - The American School of S=E3o Paulo
http://www.graded.br | (55 11) 3747-4800 x160
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