Default assignments for Sunday School class members incorrect

Hey everyone, I did a search to try and find a related post to this but couldn't find one that address the same issue I'm having. Many of our youth have to be manually moved into the correct classes because the default class is incorrect based on their age. For example a youth that has turned 16yo is by default in class 15 and their birthday was last week. The only thing I can guess may be causing an issue is that we have some of our classes combined (ie 14&15, 16&17). When I move them to the correct classes, it displays:

"Overriding the default class assignment will permanently exclude this individual from future automatic assignment advancements. To include this individual in future automatic class advancements, assign him or her to the default class assignment."

Has anyone else experienced this?

If I recall correctly, that note is the standard. Once the clerk moves a person into a specific class outside their standard assignment, it sticks so they will have to be manually moved each year in the future. You can reset to default but I think that resets the entire ward/branch so you may have a lot of cleanup to do if there has been lots of class combining going on.

If you believe the standard assignment is incorrect, you should provide feedback from any church page so those who set the developers priorities can get it on the list for them to investigate.

I got caught by that last year. Someone pointed out that a particular youth was in the wrong class. I discovered that someone (probably myself) had manually assigned that youth to a class a couple years ago, and the assignment was still there. When I reset to default, everything was magically corrected. It would be nice if clerks had a report or a reminder of all the non-standard class assignments.

It sounds like you're trying to assign them to the wrong class.

The class numbers for youth Sunday School classes are (mostly) based on age at the beginning of the year. On January 1, all of the youth in Sunday School 11 will be 11 years except for the youth born on January 1 and have their 12th birthday that day. By the end of the year, all of the youth in Sunday School 11 will have turned 12.

That is different from the Young Women classes, where the class number is based on the age at the end of the year. That means that a young woman turning 12 in 2021 will be in Sunday School 11 and Young Women 12.

drepouille wrote:It would be nice if clerks had a report or a reminder of all the non-standard class assignments.

There isn't a report for this, but you can see non-standard class assignments by organization from the organization member list. To see this for Sunday School:

• Choose Organizations > Sunday School on the LCR menu
• Click on the Members tab
• Choose All Organizations in the blue box
• Scroll down the list and look for members with a single asterisk (*) next to their names

Hi - I'm a stake membership clerk and I just wanted to confirm. With a specific example of a Young Woman turning 12 later in the year, on Jan 1 she should have 2 class assignments: Sunday School 11 which is based on age at the start of the year, and Young Women 12 based on her turning 12 sometime during the year?

johnso24 wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 7:39 pm With a specific example of a Young Woman turning 12 later in the year, on Jan 1 she should have 2 class assignments: Sunday School 11 which is based on age at the start of the year, and Young Women 12 based on her turning 12 sometime during the year?

Looking though the Handbook, I don't see a "Sunday School 11". Where is that coming from?

The default name for the Sunday School class is Course 11, which is what she would be assigned to by default. If the ward is smaller it could be a combined class with a custom name.