Set up a class: teachers, schedule, gender, and academic year

Once a class exists, you set it up: who teaches it, when it meets, whether it's restricted to boys or girls, where it's held, and which academic year it belongs to. This guide walks through each setting, and — because settings in MarkTrack often reach into other parts of the app — it explains exactly what each one connects to and changes.

Most of these settings live on the class card. From the Classes page, click a level to open its detail page, find the class you want, and use its ⋯ More menu.

Assign teachers (you can have more than one)

A class can have several teachers, not just one. From the class card's ⋯ More menu, choose Edit Teachers (or Add Teacher if none are assigned yet) and pick one or more people.

• Both teachers and admins can be assigned as a class teacher — the picker shows both.
• Each person can only be added to a class once; trying again shows "is already assigned to this class."

Set the time, dates, location, and gender

From the class card's ⋯ More menu, choose Edit details. The Edit window lets you change:

• Subject Name — the class's display name (see the warning below).
• Teachers — same multi-select as above.
• Start Date and End Date — the end date must be on or after the start date.
• Start Time and End Time — the end time must be after the start time.
• Gender (Optional) — choose No restriction, Male, Female, or Joint (mixed). Leaving it as no restriction means anyone can be in the class.

A fuller Edit Class window (reached from a class's edit page) adds a Location / Room field — for example "Room 101, Building A" — and lets you change the class's Subject, Level, and School. Click Update Class (or Save Changes) when done.

What the Gender setting actually does

The gender setting puts a badge on the class card (Male, Female, or Joint), but it is not a hard lock on who you can add.

• When students enroll automatically from an online enrollment form, the gender restriction is enforced — a male-only class is skipped for female applicants and vice versa (unless the class has no restriction).
• When you add students by hand using the Add Students window, the gender setting does not filter or block anyone — you can still add any student. It's a label and an auto-enroll guard, not a manual barrier.

Set which days the class meets — on the Attendance page

This is the setting admins hunt for in the wrong place most often. A class's meeting days are not in any class-edit window. They're set on the Attendance page.

1. Open Attendance for the class.
2. Find the Class Days panel — a checkbox for each day, Sunday through Saturday.
3. Tick the days the class meets and click Save Changes.

The days you pick decide which date columns show up on the attendance grid and on parents' attendance views. A brand-new class defaults to meeting every day until you narrow it down here, so this is worth setting early. Admins can edit class days; so can the class's own assigned teachers.

Academic year — what links a class to a year

If your organization uses academic years, every class you create is automatically tied to the current academic year, and a year badge appears on the class card (sometimes with the matching semester name when the class dates fall inside a term). Class lists then show that year's classes, plus any older classes that have no year set.

At the end of a year, the year rollover tool copies every class into the new year. The copy keeps the subject, level, school, meeting days, times, location, gender, Hifz setting, teacher assignments, and gradebook weights. The one thing it does not copy is the student roster — the new year's classes start empty, so you enroll students fresh. Existing grades, attendance, and Hifz records from the old year are left untouched, and the old year is marked concluded.

With teachers, schedule, and settings in place, you're ready to enroll students — and to understand what happens when you later remove one. See Add and remove students in a class, or browse all guides in Classes & Grades.