Schools, districts and school years

A district holds its schools, a school its teams, and a team its classes. Every class sits in a term — usually a school year, sometimes a summer session or a single semester.

School years

Terms live on the Classes page, behind the settings button at the top, which opens Classes Page Settings. Display term chooses which one you are looking at — pick it, then Done — and Edit terms opens the list, with each term's dates and how many classes are in it. A term a teacher made is hers to edit or delete; the district's are not.

One of the district's terms is its current one: where a new class goes when nobody has said otherwise. In Edit terms, the menu beside a district term has The district's current term — only a district or Mastery Board administrator sees it, and one term per district carries it at a time. Nothing else moves it, so at the turn of a year somebody has to.

A term can't be deleted while classes are still in it, because they would go with it. Move them to another term first.

The district's time zone

Every district keeps a time zone, and everyone in it goes by it — its teachers, its principals and the people who run it. It decides the date in an exported spreadsheet's name and on a printout, the day a term starts and ends, and where one day ends and the next begins for Days active. Nobody sets one for themselves.

Mastery Board's administrators set it, in the Admin area: Districts, then Edit in the menu beside the district, and Time zone. A district's console shows it under the district's name. If files exported in the evening are dated tomorrow, the district is on the wrong one.

What a district administrator alone can do

• Say which term is the district's current one.
• Move a child to another school in the district: on the class's list of children, the menu beside the child has Move, and a School to choose before the team and class.
• Run every school in the district — its people and its teams.
• Add a school to the district, and rename one, from the district console.
• Ask Mastery Board to delete a school, and close it to its staff while the request waits.

Their record goes with them, so that school's teachers can see them. They leave any class they were still in at the old school, and every class they leave keeps what was recorded in it.

A district administrator adds a school to their district, and renames one, from their console. Adding and deleting districts, and deleting a school, are Mastery Board administrators' work, in the Admin area. Its tabs are the console's lists asked of everywhere at once — Staff, Children and Schools — with Districts beside them and Documents, which is Mastery Board's own shelf and is shown to nobody at a school or a district. A school stays in the district it was made in.

Deleting a school or a district takes its classes, children, marks and change log entries with it, and asks you to type its name first. A district administrator cannot do it, but can ask: see your district's console.