After creating an academic year and setting up terms and sequences, you need to set-up the school structure. In this section, we shall look at how to set-up the different sections of the school. For example The English and/or French sections, levels, classes etc. There are two ways you can go about creating sections for your school. The different sections may be English Section, French Section, Commercial Section, General Education Section etc.

METHOD ONE :

Creating a new Section from the drop-down menu.
a) Move your mouse over the text link “School Setup”. On the menu-bar.
b) Click on “Add Section”.

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c) Type the name of the section in the field labeled “Section Name”. For example Commercial Section, French Section, English Section, etc.
d) Enter some notes to describe this section in the text field labeled “Section Notes”. It is optional to enter this text, you may leave this field blank.
e) Click on the button “Save Section”. A message appears at the top of the form telling you the section was successfully saved.
f) Continue creating more sections by repeating the steps above. When you are done click on the button “Close” to close the form.

METHOD TWO :

Creating school sections from the dashboard
a) While at the dashboard, click on “Settings” or its corresponding image icon.
b) Click on “Create New Section”.

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c) Type the name of the section in the field labeled “Section Name”. For example Commercial Section, French Section, English Section, etc.
d) Enter some notes to describe this section in the text field labeled “Section Notes”. It is optional to enter this text, you may leave this field blank.
e) Click on the button “Save Section”. You will be taken to a page containing a table of sections with the section you just created listed on the table.
f) Continue creating more sections by repeating the steps above.