Concept: External Students

External students are people in Workday whose information originated from an external student information system. The

External Student Record

business object is available on the Workday Human Capital Management application, and is only for academic appointments, committees, and staffing processes.

With Workday Studio, you can create a custom integration using the

Import External Student Information

web service. Importing external students' personal and academic information into Workday creates

External Student Record

business objects. When importing, Workday recommends linking external students to existing pre-hires and workers. You can use this web service to ensure that your external student's personal information is up to date in Workday. To update the personal information of external students who are workers, you must use the related action on their worker profile.