Each year, during the summer break, Sloopy Installers must take a few minutes to update their Sloopy setup. This update may be completed at any time after the end of the school year, but must be completed before the start of the next school year. Without a proper update, there will be no teachers, students, or courses in School Loop.

Note: It is critical that you update Sloopy and your scripts to make sure we receive data for the new school year. Failure to update could cause last year’s data to get imported.

If you’ve been running on the same Sloopy setup for more than a year, we recommend that you download a fresh copy of Sloopy. Just log into your Sloopy account and follow the links.

Update directions are listed below by SIS type. If you do not see your SIS listed, you are most likely using our Tab Delimited version of Sloopy. Please contact School Loop support should you have any questions. Log into your account and click the red Help Link in the upper right corner to access our support ticket system.

ALL Student Information Systems

The primary concern in updating Sloopy for a new school year is to ensure that the database for the current school year is the source of the data imports. If you are uncertain about how to update Sloopy for your SIS, please contact School Loop for support.

SASI (Any version)

In the config.txt file for each school, change the first digit after the equal sign on the data.extension line to match this year’s database value. For example if the data extension for the 08/09 school year was 8012, then it should be 9012 for the 09/10 school year.

If you wrote your own script to copy the SASI DBF files into the Sloopy data folder before sending the data to School Loop, you will need to update that script to copy the database files for the new school year.

Aeries SQL

In the aeries_config.txt file for each school, change the value in database.url= to the new school year's database name.

Aeries Access

If running as a Windows scheduled task, the properties line needs to read

".../SchoolYear:XX ..."

(change XX to the current school year and drop the ..., of course). If running "live," the script asks for a school year. Be sure to use the correct value.

Tab Delimited

Modify the script you created as necessary to ensure that you will export data from the database for the current school year.

Silk (Kansas City)

Change data.school_year value in the config file for each school.