Code
Up to 10 characters - mandatory.
Used by Classing and Advanced Timetabling. You are advised to keep short 4-5 characters as there is limited space on some screens.
The Classing Drag/Drop screen is sorted by Class Code, so a logical code sequence may help in this area.

Name
30 characters - can be the "level" or just a name.

School
Select

Class Type
A grouping of classes, eg. AM or PM.
The system makes use of this field, and can make use of this in "timetables" and Advanced Timetabling.
Every class can have assigned to it a Class Type.
This Class Type can be printed on the timetable together with the room.

Student Level
The level entered can be used as a merge field when creating departure certificates.

Time
Appears in registers

Used By
Classing and Timetabling, or Timetabling only.
Where used by Timetabling, only the class is normally a dummy class for say, exam marking or a "reserve" teacher's class

Active
Deselect if a class is no longer to be used.
Inactive classes do not appear within Automatic Classing or Advanced Timetabling.

School Room
Select room

Hours Per Week
Used by Attendance recording module to calculate student schedules attendance hours per week

Max Students
Classing will check and warn if numbers exceed this value

Min/Max Age
Not used

Payment Grade
Used in conjunction with a "teacher's" payment grades - for this class, 1 indicates grade 1, 2 indicates grade 2, etc.

Payment Unit
A value can be entered to represent the value of this class.
For example, a General English class may have a value of 1.0, but a Business English class may have a higher value of 1.2, therefore representing a 20% increase over a General English class.

User Defined Fields
Set in System Settings - can be made mandatory.
Analysis 1-6 are used for character values (1-30 characters)
Analysis 7-8 are used for numeric values +/-9,999,999 (whole numbers only)
Analysis 9-10 are date fields

Note 1 (Class Books)
100+ characters can be entered.
Displays on class lists.

Note 2 (Description)
100+ characters.
There is also the facility to copy in the teachers.
This option is provided to allow the report generator to produce reports wilt "multiple" teachers involved. Without this option, if multiple teachers are involved, duplicate lines will display in Quick Reports.

Teachers Tab
Add/remove teachers for this class.
Teachers appear on the various Classing reports/registers unless Advanced Timetabling is in use when the teachers used in that module are shown.

Students
Automatically displays students in the class as at the date shown.

Note: date can be changed and students, as at that date, will be displayed.

Teacher History
Only shows if Advanced Timetabling is in use

Default Timetable
Select the timeslots as appropriate