A vertical tutor group is a group populated with borrowers of multiple ages (years), rather than borrowers all of the same age.
The library system caters for vertical tutor groups by allowing borrowers from multiple years to be members of a single tutor group.
You can set up vertical tutor groups when manually managing borrowers and tutor groups. A quicker way to add borrowers to the system is by using a CSV file to import them.
Create the group as normal.
Create a borrower that belongs to this group (and year).
Nothing will be any different at this point, if the tutor group is checked then it is exactly the same as any other.
If the next borrower that is added is not a member of the tutor group's default year then this must be changed on their record.
Now when checking the tutor group, notice that the year group field is now greyed out and cannot be changed. This is because the group now contains borrowers from varying years.
Continue adding borrowers as required.