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Getting Your School Off the Ground – Curriculum

Once you’ve taken care of your school’s basic setup, it’s time to focus on the curriculum. a.school uses a flexible system of Classes, Lessons, and Activities to help each user configure their lesson plans and class offerings.

Below we’ll take a look at how to establish this system and get your classes up and running.

Creating a Class

Classes are created from the class management page.

Here you can:

• Set educational content
• Determine fees
• Assign instructors
• Post class entries
• Enroll students
• Schedule dates

You can create a class using the side navigation by heading to Classes > Classes, clicking on the plus icon in the upper right corner, and then selecting “Add Class”.

You can read more about classes here

Creating a Lesson

A Lesson is a group of activities that forms part of a course or class.

Here’s how you create a new lesson:

• Navigate to the class you would like to create the lesson for
• Click Lessons on the top navigation
• Click Add Lesson
• Click New Lesson
• Enter the title of the lesson and optionally a description and cover image
• Click Add Lesson in the bottom left of the pop-up

You can read more about lessons here.

Creating an Activity

Activities are tasks to be completed by a student and exist within a lesson.

Here’s how you add an activity:

• Navigate to the class you would like to create the lesson for
• Click Lessons on the top navigation
• Click Add Lesson
• Click New Lesson
• Enter the title of the lesson and optionally a description and cover image

You can read more about activities here.

Creating a Class Entry

Class entries allow instructors to post material in their classes that students, guardians, and teachers can then comment on and interact with.

There are two types of class entries:

• Post entries that consist of a simple written message
• And photo entries allow the teacher to create a post that features a gallery slideshow

Here’s how you create a class entry:

• Head to the class you would like to create the class entry for
• Select Add Entry in the upper right corner
• Choose whether you would like a post or photo entry
• If it’s a post entry, enter the title, message, and optionally featured image
• If it’s a photo entry, enter the title, message, and add photos by clicking Add Photos
• Once you’re happy with the information for either entry, click Add Entry

You can read more about class entries here

Creating a Course

Courses are class templates that can be populated with educational content in the form of lessons and activities.

You can create a course by navigating to Classes > Courses and clicking on the plus icon in the upper right corner.

You can read more about courses here

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