What do I need to do in Alps if my school are migrating to a new MIS?

If your school is migrating to a new MIS, then the only thing you need to do in Alps is to make sure that you can still use the same Student ID's moving forward for the same students:

If you are moving from SIMS to another MIS, then you will no longer be able to use the SIMS report definitions to extract your data from your MIS. But, this doesn't matter, as long as you can export your data from your MIS to Excel then you will have no issues with importing your data into Connect. 

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