Version 11 - Class Promotion

The Class Promotion assistant is a new feature in PowerChurch Plus Version 11 that makes it easy to move people from one activity to the next. The most common example of this would be processing Sunday School graduation.

The Mass Update Activities & Skills feature has been available in PowerChurch Plus for many years. Previously, this was the only way to rearrange your Sunday School classes. You would have to start at the highest grade, move everyone out, and then work your way down the list, moving everyone out of the existing class up to the next highest grade.

This worked well, for the most part, but you would have problems processing classes that hold two grades. For example, in the 5^th and 6^th grade Sunday School class, only half the kids "graduate" up to the next grade each year. Using the Mass Update feature, it is not possible to move only those kids that were going into 7^th grade, leaving the 6^th graders in place.

This is the primary focus of the Class Promotion feature. Not only does it allow you to process all promotions at once, rather than updating each class individually, but you can specify on a per-child basis what year their next graduation occurs. Keeping with the 5^th and 6^th grade Sunday School class example, this class would be labeled as a two year class period. When kids are added to this activity, their graduation year is calculated automatically, two years later. But what about a new child that moves into the area and joins this class as a 6^th grader? You are able to change their promotion year separately from the rest of the class, so that their graduation happens at the same time.