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Type over it if your school names its years differently.",[406,478,479],{},"A session cannot be renamed or deleted once it has calendars attached, because grades and fees are\nalready pointing at them.",[429,481,482],{"id":416},"Terms",[406,484,485,486,489],{},"Every school starts with First, Second and Third Term. These three are permanent, because\nthe platform orders a report card's term history by them, but you can give any of them an ",[410,487,488],{},"alias",", and\nthe alias is what everyone sees. A school running Michaelmas, Lent and Trinity sets three aliases\nand never sees the default names again.",[406,491,492],{},"You may also add terms of your own. Those stay fully editable and deletable.",[429,494,496],{"id":495},"calendars-and-term-dates","Calendars and term dates",[406,498,499,500,503],{},"A calendar pairs a session with a term. One is marked ",[410,501,502],{},"current",", and that is the term new grades,\ninvoices and registers are filed against.",[406,505,506,507,510],{},"Give a calendar a ",[410,508,509],{},"first and last day"," and the rest of this page comes to life: teaching weeks,\nday counts, the month grid, and the check that stops a register being marked on a day the school\nwas shut. Without dates, a calendar still works exactly as it always did. Nothing here is required.",[406,512,513],{},"Two labels sit beside each term, and they answer different questions:",[515,516,517,524],"ul",{},[518,519,520,523],"li",{},[410,521,522],{},"Not started \u002F Running now \u002F Finished"," is where the term sits in time, worked out from its dates.",[518,525,526,529],{},[410,527,528],{},"Current term"," is your own choice of which term work is recorded against.",[406,531,532,533,536],{},"They are allowed to disagree. Pointing at the term about to start, during the holidays, is the\nnormal state for most of August. The one combination worth acting on is a ",[410,534,535],{},"Current, ended"," term,\nwhere work is still being filed against a term that has finished, and the badge says so plainly.",[429,538,540],{"id":539},"holidays","Holidays",[406,542,543],{},"A holiday is any run of days the school is shut: a public holiday, a mid-term break, a founder's\nday, an emergency closure. Recording one subtracts its days from the term it falls in, so the\nteaching-day count stays honest.",[406,545,546,547,550,551,554],{},"Each holiday has a ",[410,548,549],{},"category"," (public, school, mid-term break, emergency, weather or other) and\na name you choose yourself. A holiday can be set to ",[410,552,553],{},"repeat every year",", so Independence Day is\nrecorded once and applies to every year that follows without being re-entered.",[406,556,557,558,561],{},"Recording a holiday also ",[410,559,560],{},"stops a register being marked"," on those days. Attendance refuses and\nnames the holiday in the way, so you know exactly which record to change if it was entered by\nmistake. Registers already marked are never altered: a register states what happened, and declaring\na past day closed does not make the pupils counted that morning absent.",[429,563,565],{"id":564},"events","Events",[406,567,568],{},"An event is something happening on a day: a sports day, an open day, a parents' meeting, an\nexcursion. Events can carry a start and end time and a venue.",[406,570,571,572,575],{},"An event is deliberately ",[410,573,574],{},"not"," a holiday: a sports day is still a teaching day. If the school is\ntaking the day off for it, record a holiday alongside.",[577,578,580],"h3",{"id":579},"events-that-repeat","Events that repeat",[406,582,583,584,587],{},"A weekly assembly, a monthly PTA meeting, a founder's day: set ",[410,585,586],{},"Repeats"," on the event and record\nit once instead of typing it out every week. Choose weekly, monthly or yearly, and optionally a date\nto repeat until. Leave that blank and it keeps going.",[406,589,590],{},"The event shows once in your Events list, marked with how often it repeats, and appears on every\nday it falls on in the calendar. Editing the one event moves every repetition with it.",[406,592,593],{},"If you pick a day of the month that some months do not have (the 31st, say), those months are\nskipped rather than moved to the nearest day. You asked for the 31st.",[577,595,597],{"id":596},"cancelling-an-event","Cancelling an event",[406,599,600,601,604],{},"If something is called off, ",[410,602,603],{},"cancel"," it rather than deleting it. A cancelled event stays on the\ncalendar, struck through and marked cancelled, so anyone who had it in their diary can see what\nhappened. Deleting is for a mistake: an event recorded on the wrong date, or twice.",[406,606,607],{},"You can add a reason, which parents and students see word for word, and by default they are sent a\nnotification straight away. Untick that for something nobody has been told about yet. An event you\nhave kept staff-only sends nothing, because there is nobody outside the school to tell.",[406,609,610,611,614],{},"Changed your mind? ",[410,612,613],{},"Put back on"," reinstates it. Nobody is notified when you do, so tell families\nyourself if they need to know.",[429,616,618],{"id":617},"calendar-view","Calendar view",[406,620,621,622,625,626,629],{},"The ",[410,623,624],{},"Calendar"," tab shows a month at a time, colour-coded by what each day is, with holidays and\nevents marked. Switch to ",[410,627,628],{},"Agenda"," for a plain list of what is on. Click any day to see everything\nthat applies to it, and to add a holiday or an event on that date.",[406,631,632],{},"Days outside every dated term are hatched rather than shown as closed. A day no term covers is not\na day anyone has declared shut.",[406,634,635],{},"The tab opens on the term you are in. Out of term, it opens on the nearest one instead: in the\nAugust vacation that is September's opening, and in the week after a session ends it is the term\njust finished. If no term has dates yet, it says so and points you at the Terms & Sessions tab\nrather than showing an empty grid.",[637,638,641],"callout",{"title":639,"tone":640},"Set up for you","info",[406,642,643],{},"Registration creates the three default terms and the current academic session for you, with the\nright term already marked current for the time of year. Dates, holidays and events are yours to add\nwhen you have them.",[429,645,647],{"id":646},"calendar-settings","Calendar settings",[406,649,621,650,652,653,656,657,660,661,664,665,668],{},[410,651,335],{}," tab holds the four facts everything else is derived from: the ",[410,654,655],{},"timezone"," your\nschool keeps, the ",[410,658,659],{},"school week"," (what you do on each weekday: teaching, open but not teaching, or\nclosed), the day an academic ",[410,662,663],{},"week is numbered from",", and your ",[410,666,667],{},"working hours",". Teaching weeks,\nacademic days and instructional hours are these four applied to your term dates, with closures\nsubtracted, which is why the tab sits here rather than only on the Settings page. It is the answer\nto \"why is that Friday greyed out\", one click from the month grid that raised the question.",[406,670,671,672,675],{},"These are the same settings you will find under ",[410,673,674],{},"Settings → Calendar",", not a second copy. Change\none in either place and it is changed in both, with one audit history between them.",[406,677,678],{},"It is the only tab here restricted to administrators. The rest of the workspace answers questions\nrather than granting anything, and a teacher opening it simply does not see this tab.",[637,680,683],{"title":681,"tone":682},"Changing the school week changes what has been counted","warning",[406,684,685,686,689],{},"Marking Saturday as teaching adds a teaching day to every week of every term, and the figures on the\nOverview recalculate accordingly. Registers already marked are untouched. If your school is shut for\none particular Saturday rather than every one, record a ",[410,687,688],{},"holiday"," for that date instead.",[429,691,693],{"id":692},"who-can-see-it","Who can see it",[406,695,696,699,700,427],{},[410,697,698],{},"Every member of staff can open the Academic Calendar."," When term ends, which days the school is\nshut and when the sports day is are things a teacher plans around, so reading it needs no\npermission. It sits under ",[410,701,20],{},[406,703,704,705,708],{},"One tab is the exception. ",[410,706,707],{},"Terms & Sessions"," is where the year itself is set up, and it is shown\nonly to someone who may change it. A teacher opening the workspace gets everything else, and the\nyear panel on Overview shows the session they are teaching rather than every session your school has\never run.",[406,710,711],{},"Changing it is a different matter, and splits three ways: term dates and sessions, holidays, and\nevents are each their own permission. That is what lets you hand the front desk the events tab\nwithout also handing them the power to re-date a term.",[429,713,715],{"id":714},"on-the-mobile-app","On the mobile app",[406,717,718,719,721,722,725],{},"Staff get ",[410,720,7],{}," in the app's More menu, with three tabs: the\ncurrent term's progress and totals, holidays, and events. Both holidays and events can be added and\nedited from the phone, which is rather the point: shutting the school for a storm is a decision\ntaken away from a desk. ",[410,723,724],{},"Term dates"," are set from the phone too, under Academic Setup →\nCalendars, where each term shows its dates or reads \"Not dated\".",[406,727,728],{},"The month grid and the year ribbon are web-only: they are comparison views, and they need the width.",[429,730,732],{"id":731},"who-can-see-and-change-this","Who can see and change this",[406,734,735,736,738],{},"Reading the calendar is open to any staff member: a teacher planning a scheme of work needs to know\nwhen the term ends, and that is not something one member of staff should see and another not. The\n",[410,737,707],{}," tab goes with the permission that changes it, since setting up the year is not\nthe same thing as knowing where you are in it.",[406,740,741],{},"Changing it splits three ways, so you can hand out as much or as little as you mean to:",[743,744,745,758],"table",{},[746,747,748],"thead",{},[749,750,751,755],"tr",{},[752,753,754],"th",{},"Permission",[752,756,757],{},"Covers",[759,760,761,772,782],"tbody",{},[749,762,763,769],{},[764,765,766],"td",{},[410,767,768],{},"Manage academic periods",[764,770,771],{},"Sessions, terms, term dates, and which term is current",[749,773,774,779],{},[764,775,776],{},[410,777,778],{},"Manage school closures",[764,780,781],{},"The days the school is shut",[749,783,784,789],{},[764,785,786],{},[410,787,788],{},"Manage school events",[764,790,791],{},"Parent meetings, sports days, anything arranged",[406,793,794],{},"The Settings tab is separate again: it is administrator-only, the same as everywhere else those\nsettings appear.",[406,796,797],{},"They are separate because a mistake in each costs something different. Re-dating a term moves every\nteaching day, week number and register in the school. Shutting the school stops a register being\nmarked that morning. Putting the wrong date on a parent meeting puts a wrong line on a page.",[406,799,800,801,804],{},"So the front desk can be trusted with events without also being able to redefine the academic year,\nand a deputy head can shut the school for a storm without it. The Owner, School Administrator and\nAcademic Coordinator roles hold all three by default, and if your school already had someone\nmanaging the calendar, they keep everything they had. Principal and Vice Principal read the\ncalendar like everyone else and do not change it unless you grant them one of the three. See\n",[802,803,315],"a",{"href":314}," to grant them to a role of your own.",[429,806,808],{"id":807},"everything-is-recorded","Everything is recorded",[406,810,811,812,815],{},"Every change here is written to the ",[802,813,814],{"href":35},"audit log"," with who made it and when: a term\ndated or re-dated (with the dates it replaced), the current term moved, a closure recorded, amended\nor removed, an event arranged.",[406,817,818],{},"The closure trail is the one you are most likely to come back to. A register cannot be marked on a\nclosed day, so a closure recorded in March is what explains a gap in an attendance record read in\nJuly, and \"who decided the school was shut that Tuesday\" has no other answer.",[429,820,822],{"id":821},"on-the-phone","On the phone",[406,824,825,826,829,830,833],{},"The calendar is on the ",[802,827,828],{"href":230},"mobile app"," under ",[410,831,832],{},"More → Academic Calendar",", with the\nsame three tabs. The header names the term the day falls in and which teaching week it is, and\nnothing on the screen re-derives any of that: the kind of day, the week number and the covering\nclosure all come from the server, so the phone and the web can never disagree about when term ends.",[835,836,842],"screenshot",{":phone":837,"alt":838,"height":839,"src":840,"width":841},"true","The 1410SMS Android app Academic calendar screen on its This term tab: a header reading Tuesday, 12 May 2026, Third Term, 2025\u002F2026, Teaching, Week 4, then a card showing 16% of teaching days with ten of sixty-two behind the school, fourteen weeks, two days lost to holidays and 372 teaching hours, then a list of the next holidays",1600,"\u002Fdocs\u002Facademic\u002Fmobile.png",720,[406,843,844],{},"The term on the phone: how far through it the school is, and what closes it next.",{"title":846,"searchDepth":847,"depth":847,"links":848},"",3,[849,851,852,853,854,855,859,860,861,862,863,864,865],{"id":431,"depth":850,"text":256},2,{"id":412,"depth":850,"text":447},{"id":416,"depth":850,"text":482},{"id":495,"depth":850,"text":496},{"id":539,"depth":850,"text":540},{"id":564,"depth":850,"text":565,"children":856},[857,858],{"id":579,"depth":847,"text":580},{"id":596,"depth":847,"text":597},{"id":617,"depth":850,"text":618},{"id":646,"depth":850,"text":647},{"id":692,"depth":850,"text":693},{"id":714,"depth":850,"text":715},{"id":731,"depth":850,"text":732},{"id":807,"depth":850,"text":808},{"id":821,"depth":850,"text":822},false,"md",{},true,null,{"src":872,"alt":873,"width":874,"height":875,"caption":876},"\u002Fdocs\u002Facademic\u002Facademic-calendar-overview.png","The Academic Calendar workspace on its Overview tab, showing First Term 2026\u002F2027 running 07 September to 18 December, a ribbon of fifteen week columns with each day drawn as a block, and four figures reading 68 teaching days, 15 weeks, 7 lost to holidays and 408 teaching hours.",1832,1216,"One term, every day of it. The figures underneath are worked out from the dates and holidays above them, never typed in.",{"title":6,"description":10},"docs\u002Facademic","l6O_z6Vr864pP2ztcm7JU-7pQXdmPiLIewXvgi-TlOs",1787681162237]