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Managing activity-based groups in Sentral - NSW Department of Education (eg. Scripture, Excursions and Sport)

If your school is transitioning from ebs to Sentral as the master source of data, see our decommission guide for more information.

There are other groups of students and staff that you need to create and sync up to the NSW DoE’s system. These may be your Peer Support groups or Excursion/Incursion groups. In Sentral, these sorts of groups are managed in the Activities module.

Use this information to assign a group type, as defined by NSW DoE, to a category in the Activities module.
NSW DoE group types are:
  • EXC – Excursion/Incursions
  • EC – Extra-Curricular
  • OTHER – Other Activity Group
  • PSG – Peer Support Group
  • SRE – Special Religious Education
  • SPO – Sport.
Note: Houses, Roll Call, Timetable Subjects, and Academic Classes are supported elsewhere in Sentral

Group types synced
Sentral will sync activities that are created against a category with a nominated Group Type back to NSW DoE’s system.

Create a new category
Use this information to create a new category if you don’t have an existing category that supports a NSW DoE defined group type. E.g., SRE – Special Religious Education.
1. Select the menu icon and choose Activities.
2. Select Setup and choose Activities Setup.
3. Select Setup in the left menu and choose Categories.
4. Select New Category.
5. Additional fields display.

6. Enter a name for the category. E.g., Peer Support Group.
7. Select the type of activity.
8. Select the group type that is appropriate for the category. E.g., PSG for Peer Support Group.
9. Select a default cycle for the activity category.
10. Select an approval workflow to specify how the activity will get approved.
      You are limited to assigning one approval process to each activity category.
11. Select Add.
      Additional fields display for you to add more information. Completing the additional fields is optional.
12. Select Save.

Create a new activity for the group
Use this information to create a new activity in relation to the group. E.g., Peer Support 2024.
1. Select the Sentral menu icon and then under Student Admin, select Activities.
2. In the left menu, select the category and choose All.

3. Select New [activity/excursion name]. E.g., New Peer Support Group.
    The New [category] Activity screen displays. E.g., New Peer Support Group Activity.
4. Enter information for the activity and then select Save.