How to Add New School Year
Overview
School will need to make a new year to begin gathering Admissions for the upcoming school year or to start the new school year.
Description
Start New Year
In AE-Connect to Start New Year navigate to Admissions in the navigation. Select School Year dropdown in the upper right corner of the screen, click and select Start New Year.
The Add New School Year flyout will appear, allowing you to select a begin date and ending date. The School Year will auto generate based on the begin and end dates.
LEAVE ACTIVATE ON blank during this step.
Once your Beginning and Ending dates are set, click the Save and exit button in the upper right of the screen.
Changing View to the New Year
Once the current school year has ended and you would like AE-Connect to default to the new school year, please follow the steps above to save your changes. After saving, go ahead and refresh the page.
Next to the school name, select the 2025-2026 school year, so that AE-Connect advances to the 2026-2027 school year. See Permission below if you do not cannot select school year.
NOTE: The screen will redirect the user to the homepage. Please navigate back to Scheduling.
In Scheduling, go to School Days, select Edit school year, and set Activate On to an appropriate date. The recommendation is to add yesterday’s date to Activate On. Then refresh the page. This will update the entire interface to 2026-2027, and the top menu will return to black.
At this point, the user can continue with the new year setup.
Permissions
Changing School Years is a permission. If you cannot select the new school year after creating it, please navigate to School Profile > Security, select the Security Group you are part of, open APP Setting, check “year Switcher,” and refresh the page. Once completed, you should be able to change the school year next to the school name.
