A class is either an academic or a co-curricular class within your organisation. Examples of academic classes include mathematics and science. Examples of co-curricular classes include piano, swimming and basketball. Most classes are academic.
The advantage of maintaining details about co-curricular classes is that you can charge for these classes, record absences and so on, just as you would for academic classes. It allows you to maintain and report on an individual student's non-academic activities.
Note: Also see the Curriculum manual for information about maintaining details for students who are taking courses, either internal or external to your organisation, maintaining materials and suppliers, maintaining semesters and terms, adding new students to classes and maintaining timetables.
How to:
- Search for a class. See Searching for classes.
- Create a new class. See Creating new classes.
- Add new timetable day/periods manually. See Adding new timetable day/periods manually.
- Set up mark book assessment areas against subject assessments. See Subject Assessment Maintenance - Summary tab - Mark Book sub-tab. Teachers can then import them to the class, which are then used by either:
- All of the teachers who teach the class. See Importing mark book assessment areas for a single class.
- Individual teachers who teach the class. See Importing mark book assessment areas for multiple teachers in a class.
- Add students to classes in bulk. See Adding students to classes in bulk.
- Import a list of students from a file created in an external application. See Adding new students to classes using student class import.
What you can do:
What you can do… | See… |
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Maintain general details about the class. | |
You can:
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View the students who are attending the class. | |
Allocate the staff members who teach the class. | |
Maintain:
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View and update information about any external or internal courses linked to this class. | |
Link a test or examination to the result group. | |
Define your own tabs or programs within Synergetic. | |
Maintain mark book assessment areas against a class. | |
Maintain documents displayed for the class under the Results tab of the community portal. | |
Maintain the subject assessment areas to be printed by default for the class. | |
Show:
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Maintain documents relating to the class. |
Maintain student elective preferences. | |
Determine which electives are displayed on the Community Portal. |
Note: If a class is assessed, you must link it to an assessment area so that you can access it through Student Results Maintenance. See Maintaining subject assessment areas.
Co-curricular classes
Use co-curricular file types to select the students who are undertaking a particular class outside the academic area, such as sport or music.
Co-curricular areas have different File Types to normal academic classes. Academic classes have a File Type of A and co-curricular classes have other file types. For example:
File Type | Description |
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M | Music |
S | Summer sport |
W | Winter sport |
Note: File types are maintained in the luFileType lookup table. See luFileType lookup table in the System maintenance manual.