You can import student enrollment information (like class/session, grade, remarks, keywords, and so on) for a certain year/period. This is useful if you use something other than the PDS online forms to register students.

The import information is matched with your current PDS records using each student's name and birth date. This process does not add new students or classes/sessions. Make sure you have set up the student and class/session records you need before importing. For details and step-by-step instructions, see Import Enrollment Information.

Now, when you mark someone as deceased, you can choose whether to add an entry for that person in the Death Register. Select Add Entry to Sacramental Register if you want to do so.

If you use a Gmail account to send emails from your PDS program, you must set up an App Password with Google. This security feature, which is required by Google, ensures that your Gmail account is used safely. App Passwords do not expire on a regular basis, but if you change your Google password, you must set up a new App Password at that time.

We have a help topic with steps on setting up an app password, and we thought it would be helpful to link to that topic within PDS. That way, you can get to the steps you need, when you need them! In your Email Server Setup window, click Set Up an App Password for Gmail to open the help topic. You will only see this link if your server includes "gmail.com".