The following is an illustration that shows how Dynamics 365 can be extended in an education-based institute—for example: a typical school.
A typical school management application will consist of the following actors:
- Students
- Teachers
- Parents
- Resources, including classrooms, playground, and labs
- Library books
Apart from the aforementioned actors, there will also be the following processes to enable the daily working of the institute:
- Attendance management
- Test evaluation
The first step is to identify whether there is a possibility of mapping any of the existing out-of-the-box entities for our usage. If that is not possible, based on our analysis, we will create a new entity.
Dynamics 365 provides contacts or customers as a standard out-of-the-box entity. By default, it contains attributes including first name and last name. This entity can easily...