Student photos appear on the Points screen and on your Hall Pass dashboard, so staff can put a name to a face:
Student photos on the Points screen
Student photos on the Hall Passes Dashboard
Turn photos on
Go to Setup > Student Photos. If you see Student photos are turned off, click the button on that card to turn them on.
The setting lives in Points > Settings if you ever need to turn it back off:
Add photos
On Setup > Student Photos, use the Add Photos box. Drag photos in, or press to browse.
Accepted formats are JPG, PNG, WebP, or a .zip of photos.
Upload a zip of photos
Uploading a .zip is the fastest way to add photos for a whole school. LiveSchool matches two kinds of zip to your students automatically:
A photo vendor export, like LifeTouch. Upload the .zip exactly as your vendor sent it. LiveSchool reads the names and IDs inside and matches each photo to a student.
Photos named by student ID. If each photo is named with the student's ID number (for example, 1234567.jpg), put them all in a .zip and upload it. PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward and many photo companies can export photos this way. LiveSchool matches each file name to the student's ID in LiveSchool.
For photos named by student ID, the file name has to match the student's ID in LiveSchool exactly, with nothing else in the name. Photos named by student name (like Jane_Smith.jpg) are not matched automatically, so ask your photo company for files named by student ID instead.
After the upload, you will see a short review screen:
Matched on a school ID. These matched on an ID your school issued, so they are safe to attach.
Matched on name. These are a best guess, matched on a unique name within a grade (vendor exports like LifeTouch only). LiveSchool shows you a few faces so you can confirm the matching looks right. Click Review all to see every one.
Staff photos in the file are skipped automatically.
If the zip will not open, you will see "We could not read that zip. Upload the .zip exactly as your photo vendor sent it." If your photos are in a shared drive or folder instead of a zip, select the photos, right click, and compress them into a new zip. If they are named by student ID, they will match automatically.
Some or all of my photos did not match
Any photo that did not match waits in the tray, asking Whose photo is this? The most common reason is that the number in the file name is not the same as the student's ID in LiveSchool. Check one photo: compare its file name with that student's ID number in LiveSchool. Watch for extra text in the file name or a missing leading zero. If they don't match, contact us and we'll help you sort it out.
Photos you drag in one at a time (not in a zip) always go to the tray to be linked by hand.
Check your coverage
The Students with Photos gauge shows how far along you are, for example "312 of 400 students have photos."
Let teachers show or hide photos
Once photos are on for your school, each teacher decides whether to show them on their own Points screen. In Points, open the display options and tick Show Student photos, with initials for anyone without one:
This is a per-teacher choice on their own device, so younger grades can show faces while older grades keep initials.