Courses represent an area of study pertaining to a specific subject area, grade level, and rigor. Courses have predefined attributes which describe the course (ie. title, course number, subject, rigor) and determine characteristics of the course such as the number of credits that a student can earn, grade reporting, state reporting, and scheduling options.
Admins can create courses from School Main or District Main, depending on the permissions for your district.
To create a new course:
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Go to Main > Courses > Course Catalog > Create Course
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Fill out the fields with course information. Any fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.
- Enter the title of the course in the Title field. If your subscription includes report cards, this is what appears on the report card for the class title.
- Enter the relevant subject area for the course in Subject area
- Set the minimum and maximum grade level for the course in grade level. Any grade level not included will be restricted from being added to classes tied to this course
- If the course is created at the district, you will see an Availability section. See here for information about setting availability.
- (optional) add a course fee or any additional notes about the course
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In the Grading Periods table, select the appropriate grading period setup.
- If it is a yearlong course, select Create a single full year course
- If the course takes place once per semester, such as Fall Algebra and Spring Algebra, select Create 2 courses, 1 for each semester
- If the course takes place during one grading period, such as 1st quarter, select Create a single grading period course
- For other course setups, select Other
- If the course has an exam grading period or a summary grading period, check the appropriate box(es) next to Special GPs
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In the Yearly Data tab, you can make changes to the following attributes:
- Credits: Determine how many credits a course is worth. If no value is entered, it defaults to 1. A value greater than 0 must be entered if the course counts for GPA
- Grading Scale Options: You can change a courses grading scale mode, as well as set what grading scale is used for that particular year
- Report Card & GPA Options: This allows you to show this course on the report card, make it count for GPA, and set a report card item list to be used for the year
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In the State Data tab, you can enter information reported to the state, which comes in two different categories:
- State specific data: These are state required fields, such as the state course number
- CRDC data: you can also enter specific CRDC information, like CRDC course type
- In the Scheduling tab, you can enter two different types of scheduling info:
- Basic info: this is where you set up how many meetings per cycle, how many periods a course can meet a day, if it counts for instructional time, and if it is a lunch course
- Scheduling requirements: There are several fields here to help for scheduling options, such as adding prerequisites, corequisites, or allowing students to select the course during course requests
- Click Save & Create Another to create an additional course. Otherwise, click Save.