SchoolWise SIS Knowledge Base

For every academic class section created in the desktop system a corresponding gradebook is automatically created and populated with the students being assi...

Your school's marking periods (Semester, Quarters, Trimesters, etc.) should be set up at year-end rollover time.  Decide at that time whether or not you...

The next thing that needs to be done is setting up the academic courses and sections. Grades should not be maintained in grade level ADA course sections but...

Courses Vs. Sections There is a lot of confusion as to the difference between courses and sections and both end up being called classes which further muddi...

  Credits, while not required for elementary and middle schools, are still used to calculate GPAs by weighted average.  For example, if you want the acad...

    The Department field is mostly used for ADA calculations and can be ignored in academic classes although it can be used for subject sorting order i...

Right click on the list of courses and select Add New Course.     At the top of the page type in the following (assuming this is a grade 6 math course)...

Students are enrolled in sections of courses.  The difference is that a course like Math 6 will be taught year after year.  A section of Math 6 exists for o...

After the courses and sections have been created, click on the Enrollment button on the left side of the screen.     The Select a Course Section form c...

Clicking on the Schools button on the left side of the screen opens the School Form.       Choose the school for which you want to set the default...