Custom Fields

Academium's forms for students, parents and staff can be adjusted to collect what your school needs.

Custom fields

School Settings → Custom Fields adds fields of your own to the forms for:

• students (the admission form),
• parents, and
• staff.

Adding a custom field

1. Choose who the field belongs to: student, parent or employee.
2. Give it a name and choose its type: text, text area, dropdown, email, date, checkbox or number.
3. For a dropdown, type the options separated by commas, for example Red, Blue, Green.
4. Set its order on the form, its width (1 to 12; 12 is the full width), a default value, and whether it is required.
5. Turn on Show on table to add it as a column on the staff or parent list.

Custom fields are kept per branch.

Turning a field off

Deactivate a field to remove it from the form without deleting what has already been recorded.

Common issues

My custom field does not show on the student profile. Custom fields for students appear on the admission form. They are not shown on the student profile page.

A dropdown field will not save. Dropdowns need at least one option.