How do I create courses within Schoolrunner?

If Schoolrunner syncs directly with your SIS (or indirectly with your SIS via Clever) you probably want to create courses in your SIS rather than directly in Schoolrunner. However, if you want to intentionally ignore the course structure in your SIS (be sure to check out the "Manual Course Creation" setting), or add a new course that you don't want to exist in your SIS, you can do this in Schoolrunner.

From the Configure page, select "Add Course" to create a brand new course in Schoolrunner.

Any courses created this way will exist solely within Schoolrunner, and will have no connection to any courses that exist in your SIS.

Fill out the important details for your course:

• Name – The name of your course.
• Course Length – How long are students enrolled for? This also determines grading methodology options (i.e. you can't get a semester grade for a course that's only one quarter).
• Sections – Which sections of students take this course? These sections come from your SIS and are managed entirely there. Only students in sections linked to a course can get grades for that course. Note: since section enrollments come from your SIS, enrollment changes there will be reflected in this course.
• Credits – For GPA calculation.
  

You can optionally add in more details:

• Course Type – For student performance analysis. See more here.
• Department – Also for analysis purposes.
• Grade Level – Not required, but may be helpful for organizational purposes, or to differentiate similar courses for different grade levels.
• Grading Scale Set – Choose the grading scale set that should interpret student results and assign them As, Bs, Cs, etc.
• Ignore Modified Grading Scales – If students have IEP or modified grading scale accommodations, should this course ignore them? This depends on IEP/grading scale info syncing into Schoolrunner from your SIS.
• Active – Leave this as "Yes" unless you want to get rid of an existing course or adding a new course to be used later on in the school year (at which point you plan on activating it).

It's recommended to leave the "Default Options" as they are. The only reason to change these is if you want to ensure that the settings for this course are not affected by changes made to school-wide setting changes.