Sign-up & profile fields
Ask for the details your school needs when people sign up or edit their profile.
Ask for what you need
Add your own fields to sign-up and profile forms. A school might ask for a guardian's phone number or a learner's previous school. You collect the information your school actually uses at sign-up, without asking staff to follow up later by phone or on paper forms.
Required or optional
Decide which details must be filled in. Essential information cannot be skipped, while extra questions can be left blank by anyone who prefers not to answer. This keeps forms short and friendly for learners and parents, while making sure staff always have the details they truly need to support each person.
Visible to staff
Answers appear on each person's record in Admin. Staff find the information alongside everything else they know about that learner or user. There is no need to search through separate spreadsheets or email attachments to find a detail when a parent calls or a teacher asks.
What you can do
- Custom fields
- Required or optional
- Shown in Admin
How to get started
- 1
Open Admin
Sign in as an administrator.
- 2
Find Sign-up & profile fields
Open it from the Configuration or People & access menu.
- 3
Adjust and save
Change the settings to suit your school; they apply straight away.
Who uses it and where to find it
Add your own fields to sign-up and profile forms.
Who uses it
Super admin, Student.
Where to find it
Administrators find it in Admin under Configuration or People & access.
If you do not see it, ask your administrator: what you can open depends on your role and on the add-ons switched on for your school.
Common questions
Who can change these settings?
Administrators with the matching permission.
Do changes apply straight away?
Yes. Most settings take effect as soon as they are saved.