What is,the difference between courses, class, period and unit. These term always get me confuse.
Please I need a really clear explanation on it.
For an elemtary school, Is course same thing as subject ie. Mathematic, English, basic I science, civic education etc,
What about classes. What does it mean in gibbon.
What is unit also in gibbon, and also what does period mean.
Hi, Crest! As you’ve gathered, these are all connected and layered concepts within Gibbon.
Courses are not quite the same thing as subjects: they are a crossover between a department and a year group. For example, in an English department, you might have courses for Year 7 English, Year 8 English, and Year 9 English. Courses act as an umbrella under which classes and units are kept.
Classes are the next step down from courses: they serve as a structure to show which group of students will be learning that course, which teachers will be teaching them, and what times they will be taught. Once a class is set up, you can start creating lesson plans.
Units belong to courses and can be then be used by the classes in that same course. They contain information on material that will be taught to students, and can be assigned to a class when making a lesson plan.
Periods are defined by the timetable: they are the time slots during the day when lessons will happen. You can use Timetable Admin to put classes in periods once they are created to make them appear on the timetable.
I hope this helps!
@hmerrett said:
Hi, Crest! As you’ve gathered, these are all connected and layered concepts within Gibbon.Courses are not quite the same thing as subjects: they are a crossover between a department and a year group. For example, in an English department, you might have courses for Year 7 English, Year 8 English, and Year 9 English. Courses act as an umbrella under which classes and units are kept.
Classes are the next step down from courses: they serve as a structure to show which group of students will be learning that course, which teachers will be teaching them, and what times they will be taught. Once a class is set up, you can start creating lesson plans.
Units belong to courses and can be then be used by the classes in that same course. They contain information on material that will be taught to students, and can be assigned to a class when making a lesson plan.
Periods are defined by the timetable: they are the time slots during the day when lessons will happen. You can use Timetable Admin to put classes in periods once they are created to make them appear on the timetable.
I hope this helps!
- Harry
it seems gibbon was made basically for higher institution you your have such divisions.
How do primary and secondary school administrators tweak it to give them exactly what they need.
For instance over here in primary and secondary school, what they have is subjects example mathematics, social studies, English language etc. There are no department, no courses, no unit.
How can i implement it for a primary and secondary school.
Hi Crest,
Funny you should say that, as Gibbon was built in a secondary school, and our second deployment was in a primary school! It is definitely more suited to secondary, but should work in either.
If you want you can get by without departments, and just have courses, and these can be your subjects, which are then divided into classes.
If you want to do lesson planning without units, that is fine too.
Hope this helps! With schools being so varied, no one system will ever fit all…but we’ve done our best to make Gibbon work in a wide range of diverse settings.
Cheers!
Ross
@admin said:
Hi Crest,Funny you should say that, as Gibbon was built in a secondary school, and our second deployment was in a primary school! It is definitely more suited to secondary, but should work in either.
If you want you can get by without departments, and just have courses, and these can be your subjects, which are then divided into classes.
If you want to do lesson planning without units, that is fine too.
Hope this helps! With schools being so varied, no one system will ever fit all…but we’ve done our best to make Gibbon work in a wide range of diverse settings.
Cheers!
Ross
Let say the suubject my school (primary school) offer from primary one - primary 6 are
English language
Mathematics
Basic science
Civic Education
Physical & Health Education
Creative Art
Computer science
Christian Religious knowledge
French
Quantity Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning
Let say these subject are the courses, how can i divide it into classes.
Hi Crestlink,
It depends how big your school is. In a larger school you might want to set each of these as a department, and within that have a course for each year group that studies that subject. You can then have multiple classes within each course.
In a smaller school you could skip departments, and have each subject as a course, with the different year groups then represented as classes within the course.
Cheers,
Ross