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Courses & timetable

With your structure in place, you set up what is taught and when. That means your course catalog, the actual classes for this school year, and the timetable.

Courses, offerings, and course plans

Three related ideas:

  • A course is a subject in your catalog, such as "Introduction to Biology". It stays year to year.
  • An offering is that course being taught in a particular school year by a particular teacher. It is the real class students attend.
  • A course plan describes which courses a programme level should include, for example which are required and which are optional. It saves you rebuilding the list each year.

Course manager and Course plans

You build courses and offerings in the Course manager, and define required and optional courses per level in Course plans. Both are reached from the dashboard.

Set up your classes

  1. Open the Course manager.
  2. Add your courses: one per subject in your catalog.
  3. Create this school year's offerings: for each class being taught this term, create an offering and attach it to the school year.
  4. Assign a teacher to each offering so it is clear who teaches what.
  5. Optionally define course plans so each programme level has a ready list of required and optional courses.

Build the timetable

Open Timetable, described as: "Set the weekly schedule: when and where each class meets." A meeting time is a scheduled time for a class, for example, "Biology, Monday 09:00". To build it:

  1. Add slots for each offering at the times it meets.
  2. Add breaks such as recess, lunch, or assembly, so the day is complete.
  3. Lernmark rejects clashes: it will not let you double-book a teacher, group, or room, which prevents impossible schedules.
  4. Print or export the timetable (per class, per teacher, or for the whole school) headed by your letterhead.

Who sees the timetable

Teachers get a read-only view of their own teaching schedule, and students can see theirs from their dashboard. You do not have to send it around by hand.

The calendar

Alongside the timetable, the Calendar gives a month view of key dates (evaluation windows, fee due dates, term boundaries, and announcements) so everyone can see what is coming up. Each person sees the events relevant to them.

What you achieved

  • Your course catalog and this school year's classes exist.
  • Every class has a teacher.
  • Your timetable is built, clash-free, and ready to print or share.

Next, bring new students in through admissions: Admissions.