Force capitalise first letter of students' names

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Yuki Crawford

• 07 June 2021 04:11
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Hello, Could the field for first name/last name for student name entry have forced capitalisation? Everyone's names should be capitalised and there is a lot of manual work correcting this. Thank you

For example, students typing "john smith" will force change it to "John Smith"

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  Rod Staines

  • 07 June 2021 03:59

  Hi Yuki,

  Thank you for your input to the ideas forum. It's unlikely that we would implement such a change, but we're happy to leave your suggestion here to see how the community feels.

  Cheers,
  Rod.

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  Yuki Crawford

  • 07 June 2021 04:10

  Capitalise the first letter I mean.

  Instead of "john smith" the form will automatically change it to "John Smith"

  I hope it makes sense?

   

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  Mason Smith

  • 07 June 2021 04:13

  Capitals at the start of a students name may not always be applicable. Eg. AB de Villiers 🏏

   

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  Yuki Crawford

  • 07 June 2021 04:29

  Grammatically correct and professional looking for official certificates (and also less manual work) if forced uppercase for both first and last names regardless.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 08 June 2021 04:26

  Nice one Mason 👌🏼

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  Carmel Dunlop

  • 03 December 2025 01:14

  Can we please relook at this issue that was raised 4 years ago.  Is this being investigated by the Development Team at all? 

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  Melanie Holliman

  • 03 December 2025 01:23

  While capitalisation at the start of a student's name may not always be applicable, in over 95% of cases it would be correct. Currently we need to update a significant number of student names. It is now a much greater issue because we are using auto issued certificates, and an admin "human" doesn't view the lack of capitalisation and correct it prior to the certificate being issued. 

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