Tutorial: Add a Class

A class is the container almost everything else hangs off — students, attendance, the timetable grid, exam results and fee assignments are all addressed by class. Create the class first.

You need: access to Students → Classes, and permission to create classes.

Steps

1. Open Students → Classes in the side drawer.
2. Select Add Class. The Add New Class dialog opens.
3. Fill in the four fields:
   • Grade — pick from the list. This is what groups classes together for Grade Curriculum and for grade-wide reporting, so it has to be right.
   • Syllabus — pick from the list. Classes on different syllabuses in the same grade are reported separately.
   • Class Name — required, and this is the class's identifier throughout the system. Short and conventional is better than descriptive: 10-A, Grade 3 Blue. It is what you will see in every class dropdown from now on.
   • Teacher Name — optional. You can leave it empty and set the class teacher properly later.
4. Select Save.

You should see Class added successfully, and the new class appears in the list. If you get Failed to add class. instead, the most common cause is a class name that already exists.

Setting the class teacher

The Teacher Name field on the dialog is free text — it is a label, not a link to a teacher record. To actually assign the teacher who owns the class:

1. Open the class from Students → Classes.
2. Use the ⋮ More options menu on the class screen.
3. Choose Edit Class Teacher and pick the teacher.

This matters: the class teacher is who gets the class in My Class, and who can mark its attendance. See Taking Attendance as a Teacher.

What to do next

Once the class exists, in roughly this order:

1. Add students to it — one at a time, or import them from Excel.
2. Assign its subjects so it can be timetabled.
3. Include it in fee setup if fees differ by class.

Related

• Managing Students, Classes and Substitutions
• Setting Up a New Institute