Photographs can be attached to pupil and staff records. They appear in class lists, on the pupil’s record, and — where your report card settings allow it — on printed report cards.
What is accepted
200 KB is generous for a passport-style photograph and mean for a photo straight off a phone camera. Crop to head and shoulders and save at a modest resolution — a 400×400 image is more than enough for both the screen and the printed card.
Photographs are checked, not trusted
EduControl inspects the actual content of an uploaded file rather than believing its name or extension. A file renamed to .jpg that is not really an image is rejected.
If an upload is refused, the file is genuinely not a valid image of an accepted type — re-export it from an image editor rather than renaming it.
Where they are stored
Photographs are held in your school’s own private storage, not served openly on the internet. Pages that show a photograph fetch it through a link that expires, so a copied image URL stops working shortly afterwards.
This is deliberate: photographs of children should not be reachable by anyone who happens to obtain a URL.
Replacing and removing
Uploading a new photograph replaces the old one. Removing a photograph leaves the record intact and simply shows no image.
Who can do this
Pupil photographs need edit_students; staff photographs need edit_teachers.