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Securly has recently allowed automated uploads of guardian contact details. This requires getting your guardians details into a csv file in a specific format. This is easy to do manually - but takes a little work to do automatically. This is the procedure that I use to extract the data from Capita SIMS and sync it to Securly on a daily basis. You can see the basic Securly guide here  - but don't believe the bit about the columns being in any order - I've found they have to be in the order specified! SIMS Report The field I use are: Note - you have to edit the names of the fields to the ones Securly want. I run this on a daily schedule and output the result to a csv file on a virtual machine that I use for lots of automated tasks. "C:\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net\commandreporter" /user:xxxxxxx /password:xxxxxxx /report:"securlyreport" /OUTPUT:\\Win10man\gam\parents.csv /QUIET Modifying the output to meet the Securly requirements  SIMS outputs...

Below is an approach that I use to sync data from SIMS.net (our MIS) to a Google Sheet. We do this for a fair number of things now to keep stuff up to date automatically. The script I use to pull csv data into a sheet: function copyfromcsv() {      var file = DriveApp.getFilesByName("yourcsvfile.csv").next();   var csvData = Utilities.parseCsv(file.getBlob().getDataAsString());   var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();   var sh2 = ss.getSheetByName("sheettoimportto");      sh2.clear();   sh2.getRange(1, 1, csvData.length, csvData[0].length).setValues(csvData);    }

Where would be without GAM? Paying for expensive syncing tools or doing tedious manual tasks in the admin console. GAM can automate most things you might want to do in G Suite. So these are a few of my favourite commands - one I use either as part of a batch file - or just standalone. There are loads more - but these are ones that are used daily. Classroom Create a spreadsheet of all your domains classes -  gam print courses todrive Create a spreadsheet of a teacher's classes:  gam print courses teacher fred@mydomain.com todrive Bulk create classes: gam csv classes.csv gam create course alias ~alias name ~alias section ~subject teacher ~teacher status ACTIVE where classes.csv is a list of classes you want to make. Add teachers: gam csv teachers.csv gam course ~alias add teacher ~teacher Add students: gam csv students.csv gam course ~alias add teacher ~student Sync Students (in this example to a group - but could be an ou/csv file) gam csv grou...