Build a class roster once here, and load it straight into any other tool that needs one — no re-typing a class list from scratch in each one.
Period and course are used here to group your rosters and to head the printed pages. Other tools still see the roster by its name.
Name, preferred name, pronunciation, period, course and school year as columns — the shape a gradebook import or a sub folder wants. Excel puts each roster on its own sheet; CSV puts them all in one file with a Roster column.
Tick students in the list above to move them to another roster — mid-year section changes, or splitting one big list into two. Merging pulls another roster’s names into this one without touching the original.
Archiving moves a student out of the active roster — and out of Name Picker, random grouping, and every other tool that loads this roster — without erasing their name from anywhere they already have history (points, hall passes, reading logs). Restore them any time.
These tools already know how to load a saved roster from here — look for "Load a saved roster…" near their own roster box.
Archiving a roster takes it out of every other tool’s roster list without deleting the names. Starting a new year happens in Backup & Restore: it saves the whole year to a file on your disk, checks the file, and only then clears every tool’s student names, keeping your class names, periods and courses with empty lists. The file is the only copy of last year.
Nothing archived yet.
Every saved roster, its preferred names and pronunciations, and everything archived — sent straight to another computer over the same Wi‑Fi, device to device. No file to email, upload, or lose.