# Sample Data Generation

Warning: proceeding will populate the database with randomly generated data. Do not do this if you have any valuable data in your SchoolTool instance.

This creates a school of 1,000 students and data for 4 terms. If you select all options, it can take a long time. Just let it run.

Setting a random seed allows you to to reproduce the same set of sample data by generating it again with the same value of the random seed.

Random seed
Plugins

Sample data generated. Below is the list of plugins executed along with the CPU time it took to run them

Plugin Name | CPU time used (seconds)
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