New School Year

Elaine Pettit

Can I setup a new school year without affecting the current school year? I'm pretty new with BB and have worked at other systems at a different school that I can setup the new school year and clean up Courses etc without affecting the current school year. Any input would be great.

Brian Gray

@Elaine Pettit - You can do a lot of work on the next academic year while the current year is in progress. That's very common, and almost a requirement.

• You can create the academic year, define the terms and set the dates for each term.
• You can set which days in the academic year are school days and which are not.
• You can set rules for course requests, and decide which courses will be offered to allow students to request them. (You can offer some courses for the course request period, and offer others later. For example, we don't offer study halls because students don't request them. They are offered later when we are ready to assign students to specific sections of study halls.)

The key is to be sure that you are working on the correct academic year while doing this work. Check the settings at the top of most pages to verify that you are in the correct year.

Elaine Pettit

@Brian Gray Mahalo Brian for your input.