AdminsAcademics

Split a school year into terms in one click

A screen recording of Pearspark doing exactly this in a sample school, and the same 5 steps written out below in the labels you'll see on screen.

How to split a school year into terms in one click

1Click Academics under Learning in the sidebar, then the "Years & terms" tab.
2On a year with no terms, find "Split {year} into" (a year needs its first and last day — use Edit on the year if it has none).
3Choose "Two semesters", "Three trimesters", "Four quarters" or "One term — the whole year".
4Click "Make the terms" — the year is split by weekdays so each term carries about the same teaching time; every term but the last ends on a Friday, and the last ends on the year's last day.
5The same control appears in a class gradebook, for admins, when locking grades needs a term the year doesn't have yet.

Configure the school once — branding, years and terms, classes, staff, roles — then let the June rollover wizard carry it all into the new year.

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