Courses and Sections

A course is the subject record that sections are built from. Users normally create the course once, then create one or more sections for specific cycles, teachers, rooms, and students.

• Use a clear course name because it appears in sections, grades, materials, schedules, and transcripts.
• Use the description for short internal context, not long policy text.
• Do not create duplicate courses for different class groups; create separate sections under the same course instead.

Credit hours describe how much academic weight a course carries. They appear on transcripts and can affect GPA when the selected GPA policy uses credit-hour weighting.

• The default credit value is 3, but admins can choose another positive number when the course needs a different weight.
• A higher credit value gives that course more influence in weighted GPA policies.
• Changing credit hours can affect future transcript calculations that use the current course value, so review the course before saving.

A section is the actual class group students and teachers work inside. It connects a course to an academic cycle, teachers, students, schedules, attendance, materials, assessments, and grades.

• Create a new section when the same course is taught to a different group, cycle, teacher, or schedule.
• Choose a default room when the class usually meets in the same place. The schedule room still decides the actual timetable location.
• Open the section detail page to manage schedules, materials, assessments, and attendance. Use enrollment management screens for student placement changes.

Some courses have multiple connected parts, such as Theory and Lab, Lecture and Practical, or Lecture and Tutorial. In EduVerse, every part stays as a normal section. Each section still has its own teacher, students, attendance, assessments, gradebook, schedules, and materials. The result relationship only tells transcripts how to combine those independent section results into one final course result.

1. 1Create the course, such as Physics.
2. 2Create each related section for the same course and academic cycle.
3. 3Set each section type, such as Theory, Lab, Practical, Tutorial, Studio, or Other.
4. 4Open either section and choose Relationships, or open Courses and choose Section Relationships.
5. 5Select the course and academic cycle when they are not already preselected.
6. 6Select each component type, label, weight, and section list.
7. 7Save only when the weights total 100%.
8. 8Review the confirmation window. It shows affected sections, affected students, and which missing student enrollments will be created across related sections.
9. 9Confirm when the summary is correct. Teachers continue grading each section normally. Transcripts combine the finalized results later.

• Related sections are in the same academic cycle
• Related sections belong to the same course
• Students are enrolled in the component sections they actually attend
• Weights add up to exactly 100%
• The result scheme is reviewed before grades are finalized

When creating a section, review the selected course, academic cycle, teachers, and students together. A wrong selection can put the class in the wrong cycle or make it visible to the wrong users.

• Assign teachers who should manage the class work.
• Assign students directly when this section is an exception or independent class.
• Use cohorts when a whole student group should share the same sections.

Section creation asks whether the class is standalone or delivers a program requirement. This classification is explicit so reporting and archives do not have to infer a program from names or student majors.

• Choose Standalone for one-time courses or organizations that are not using programs.
• Choose Program mapped when the section delivers a course requirement in a program stage.
• For mapped delivery, select a stage offering using the same institute cycle as the section.
• Select the compatible curriculum stage and the requirement matching the section course.
• A cohort can also be program-mapped, but the section requirement mapping remains the exact delivery link.

Section colors help users recognize classes quickly across schedules, timetables, lists, and cards. EduVerse uses a predefined safe palette so labels stay readable in light and dark themes.