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Deleting a term with no associated students or marks

DeniseK1
Journeyman

Deleting a term with no associated students or marks

Hi everyone. I am new to PS Community and I am hoping someone might have a quick answer for me. One of our Admin Assistants inadvertenly set up a quarter term in the current year when she was in the process of setting up Years and Terms for 2026/2027. There is no data associate with this quarter (she just did this on Friday). Is there a way to delete this? When I did a search it does not recommend but it also does not tell me how to do it. I did read that you can can change the status of the quarter to inactive and it wouldn't show but again, doesn't say how to do that. Any suggestions out there?

4 Replies
wguer
Journeyman

Good morning,

 

I believe you can delete it. If it is not tied to anything, there should be no problem. I would just make sure that you select the correct term to delete.

JeffG9
PowerSchool Champion
PowerSchool Champion

Terms in Years & Terms can be deleted via DDA, but you would need to be extremely careful. 

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DeniseK1
Journeyman

That is what I am going to try. I worked SIS a few years ago and I know you can do it as long as you are 100% sure that there is no marks/attend etc. associated. 

Just need a refresher in DDA so I am going to do some more digging. Thanks JeffG9!

DeniseK1
Journeyman

This worked well. Ran reports to be sure no associations and then deleted via DDA. Thanks again @JeffG9