Maintaining learning areas

Learning areas are essentially the academic and non-academic departments or faculties within your organisation. Subjects are grouped into learning areas to give department heads an easy overview of their classes, staff and students.

For instance English classes such as '7ENGA' or '8ENGC' would be placed within learning area code 'ENGLISH', as show in the diagram below.

Using the learning areas, you can get an overview of your teaching staff, and students who study classes within your department. You can add or remove classes from a learning area.

How to:

Search for a learning area on the system. See Searching for learning areas.
Create a new learning area. See Creating new learning areas.

Note: You can access Learning Area Maintenance through either the Students or Assessments modules.

What you can do:

What you can do…	See…
Maintain general information about the learning area, including the description and how it is sorted on assessment reports.	Learning Area Maintenance - General tab.
You can: view or update information about all classes within the learning area, including: class code description of class staff code of the staff member who teaches that class. add and delete classes from the learning area. launch Class Maintenance window for more information about the class.	Learning Area Maintenance - Classes tab.
View or update details of staff within the learning area, including: staff code staff name the class codes of subjects they teach.	Learning Area Maintenance - Staff tab.
View details of students within the learning area, including: all student names classes student IDs.	Learning Area Maintenance - Students tab.
Maintain documents relating to the learning area.	Learning Area Maintenance - DocMan tab.