Levels are your grade bands (JSS 1, Primary 3). Classes are the arms within a level (JSS 1A, JSS 1B). Set up levels first — every class requires one.
Set up levels
Go to Settings → Levels.
Schola seeds a default Nigerian ladder — Crèche, KG 1–2, Nursery 1–2, Primary 1–6, JSS 1–3, SS 1–3. Edit it to match your school:
- Add a level — type a name in the input at the top and click Add.
- Rename — click the pencil icon next to any level and save.
- Reorder — drag levels up or down using the handle on the left.
- Archive — removes a level from the active list without deleting it. Classes tagged to an archived level keep the tag; new classes cannot use it.
Trim the ones you don't run
Every school starts with all seventeen levels, which is more than most schools need. A primary school carries six it will never use; a secondary school carries eleven.
It's worth five minutes to archive the extras, for two reasons:
- The level dropdown appears every time you create a class, and a short list is quicker to work through than a long one.
- Levels organise your CBT question bank. Leave SS 2 in place at a school that stops at Primary 6 and a teacher can spend an afternoon writing questions against a level no class will ever sit.
Archiving is safe and reversible — nothing is deleted, existing classes keep their tag, and the name is freed up if you want to reuse it.
Create classes
Go to Classes, then click New class.
- Enter a Class name — use whatever your school uses: JSS 1 A, Primary 3, Reception, Year 7.
- Choose a Level from the dropdown (your levels list from above).
- Click Create.
The class appears on the Classes page and is ready to receive students and subjects.
After creating classes
- Assign subjects to a class from its detail page — see Add subjects and assign them to classes.
- Enrol students when you add them — see Add students.
- Assign a form teacher from the class detail page.