Courses
Build the curriculum for a subject — chapters and lessons — and reuse it across classes and from year to year.
A course is the curriculum for one subject at one level, for a term. It's organised into chapters, and each chapter holds lessons. You build a course once, and every class at that level follows it — so the structure stays consistent, and you can reuse it next year.
Who this is for
Administrators and teachers who plan what's taught in each subject.
How a course is organised
Course (a subject, at a level, for a term)
└─ Chapter
└─ Lesson
└─ Lesson content (written by the teacher — see Lessons)A course belongs to a specific subject + level + term, and there's one course per that combination. The chapters and lessons give every class the same backbone; teachers then add their own lesson content on top.
Before you start
- The subject must be assigned to the level (a level subject), and terms must exist. See Build the academic foundation.
Create a course
Open the curriculum
Go to Courses (or Curriculum) and create a new course.
Fill in the course details
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Yes | The course name. |
| Description | No | A short summary of what the course covers. |
| Subject, level, and term | Yes | Which subject, at which level, for which term this course belongs to. |
Add chapters and lessons
Add chapters in the order they're taught, then add lessons within each chapter. You can reorder both at any time. Each lesson has its own details — type, duration, objectives — covered in Lessons.
Publish the course
A course starts as a draft. Publish it when the structure is ready, so it becomes available to the classes at that level.
Who manages a course's curriculum
The curriculum — the course's chapters and lessons, and publishing it — is managed by teachers given curriculum ownership of that subject, level, and term. An administrator grants ownership, and can assign many teachers across many subjects at once. There are two roles:
| Role | What they can do with the curriculum |
|---|---|
| Primary | Full control — shape the chapters and lessons, publish, and delete the course. |
| Contributor | Shape the chapters and lessons, but can't publish or delete. |
Curriculum ownership is not the same as lesson content
These roles control the curriculum structure and publishing. They're separate from the lesson content a teacher writes for their own class — which is governed by teaching the subject, not by owning the curriculum. See Lessons.
Sharing a course across classes
A course is shared by all the classes at its level. Once published, its lessons are available to those classes. Each class's teacher then writes the lesson content and decides what their students can see — so two classes can follow the same course while each teacher keeps their own materials.
Reuse from year to year
When you start a new academic year, a course can be carried over so you don't rebuild the curriculum from scratch — the chapters and lessons come across, ready to adjust. This is part of copying an academic year forward.
Common use cases
- New subject curriculum — create the course, lay out chapters and lessons, and publish.
- Same course, several classes — build it once at the level; every class follows it.
- Next year — carry the course forward and tweak rather than starting over.