How to Display Search Results

The two most commonly used methods for viewing the results from a student search are to display the list by selecting Custom Student List and to save the list by doing a Quick Export.

How to get a Custom Student List:

• Perform the desired Student Search
• The search results in a list of students displayed as (only first 500 are listed here)
• Select a function for this group of students by clicking on Custom Student List in the drop-down menu
• The Student List Report parameters screen is displayed.

• Click Fields to choose from the available options.
• Select to show gridelines, exoprt, or sort by field name if needed.
• Click Submit to display the list of students with the specified field values.

How to Save this List: Selecting the values of the Custom Student List, then copying/pasting as a text document is a possible method of saving the values; however, the most direct approach is to save the list from a Quick Export.

• Perform the desired Student Search
• The search results in a list of students displayed as (only first 500 are listed here)
• Select a function for this group of students by clicking on Quick Export in the drop-down menu
• The Custom Student List Report parameters screen is displayed.

• Click Fields to choose from the available options.
• Click Submit to display the list of students with the specified field values.

• From the browser listing the export, right-click and select Save as…
• There are several options at this point:
  • Save the file as a *.text document
  • First time users, will be asked to Choose the program to Open this type of file. Browse to Microsoft Office and then Microsoft Excel.
  • Change the File name to a descriptive name.
• If the file is in a .text format, launch Microsoft Excel and then Open the new text file containing the listed results of the student search.