MyEdBC mode is a feature that enables synchronization between a student's demographic information in MyEdBC and their SMS record. Once you have Verified ID for a student, you can click "Link MyEdBC" and select their MyEdBC record. This feature must be explicitly turned on by technical support.

<aside> 💡 Heads up! This is separate from the MyEdBC reminders you will see on each enrolment, reminding you to mark that student as complete or active in MyEdBC at appropriate times. That feature is always on and separate from MyEdBC demographic synchronization.

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The MyEdBC synchronization happens every 30 minutes, but most districts only update their exports once per day, so you'll see new data in MyEdBC once per day.

If your district would like to enable MyEdBC mode, you’ll need to export the default MyEdBC GDE demographic file. The exported CSV will have many fields but the only ones we accept are the following:

  'PEN' : Required. Numeric only.
  'Student number' : Required. Numeric only.
  'Legal surname' : Required. String.
  'Legal first name' : Required. String.
  'Legal middle name' : Optional. String.
  'Usual first name' : Optional. String.
  'Street number' : Optional. String.
  'Street name' : Optional. String.
  'Municipality' : Optional. String.
  'Province' : Optional. String.
  'Postal code' : Optional. String.
  'Date of birth' : Required. String in format DD-MMM-YYYY.
  'Gender' : Required. String containing either 'M' or 'F'.
  'Phone number' : Optional. String.
  'Grade' : Required. String containing a valid grade.
  'Aboriginal ancestry' : Optional. String containing a valid recognized status.
  'First nations band' : Optional. String. If 'Aboriginal ancestry' is 'Status - On Reserve', this should be defined.
  'Home school number' : Optional. String.

The CSV's first row must be a header detailing the above columns.

Valid grades are 'KF', '1', '01', '2', '02', '3', '03', '4', '04', '5', '05', '6', '06', '7', '07', '8', '08', '9', '09', '10', '11', '12', 'AD', 'AN', 'SU', or 'GA'.

Valid recognized statuses are 'Status - On Reserve', 'Status - Off Reserve', 'Metis', 'Inuit', 'Non-Status'.

Once you have this file ready, you can reach out to support for a secret key that you'll use when uploading this file to your SMS server. You can use curl to do this. Once we've verified the file we will turn on MyEdBC mode for you.

Contact support here: [email protected]