# Courses

Each level needs a course before its groups can get a class time. Create one yourself or import a ready course from the Library.

A course holds the lessons of a level. For a class in the mosque it can stay empty at first: the course only has to exist and belong to its level.

## Create a course

1. Open **Courses** and tap **New course**.
2. Enter the **Course title**, for example the name of the level.
3. Tap **Create**. The course opens on **Course Details**.
4. Open **Publishing** and, under **Level**, choose the level this course belongs to, then tap **Save**. Without a level, no group can use the course.

## Import a course from the Library

1. Open **Library** in the menu.
2. Open a course and look through its lessons.
3. Tap **Import to my mekteb**. Mektebi makes a copy for your mosque as a draft.
4. In the copy, open **Publishing**, choose the **Level** and tap **Save**.

Your mosque and its teachers decide what is taught. Check an imported course before you use it.

## Who may change a course

Every muallim and admin of your mosque can open and read every course. Only the course's own muallims and the mosque's admins can change it, record its grades and set its knowledge checks. A muallim who creates a course, copies one with **Clone** or imports one from the Library becomes one of its muallims.

To add a muallim to a course:

1. Open the course and tap the **Muallims** tab.
2. Under **Add muallim**, choose the muallim.

Only an admin or one of the course's muallims can add someone.

## Record grades

1. Open the course, tap **More** and choose **Grades**. Muallims also find this button on the course card in their **Dashboard**.
2. Check the school year at the top: grades belong to one school year.
3. Tap a learner's field under a category, for example **Midterm** or **Final**.
4. Under **Grade**, enter a grade from 1 to 6 in half steps, for example 4.5 (6 is the best grade). You can add a **Remark (optional)**.
5. Tap **Save**. The learner and their parents get a message.

Only the course's own muallims and the mosque's admins can open the grades: they are about children, so other staff don't see them. To record grades, an admin also needs a muallim profile in the mosque; the grade sheet links to **Members**, where you add the role.

## Knowledge checks

A knowledge check is a short quiz on a lesson, a chapter or the whole course.

1. Open the course, tap **More** and choose **Knowledge Checks**.
2. Tap **Add knowledge check**.
3. Under **Attach to**, choose the lesson, chapter or course. Under **When**, choose **Before** or **After**.
4. Add the questions, set the options below if you need them, and tap **Save**.

- **Required**: learners must pass the check to go on. A **Before** check locks its lesson, chapter or course until it is passed; an **After** check locks what comes next. While a required check is not passed, the course is not completed and there is no certificate. Answers that wait for your grading lock nothing: they only hold back completion until you grade them.
- **Time limit**: 1 to 180 minutes, with a countdown. When time is up, the answers are handed in; later answers are not accepted.
- **Attempts**: how many times a learner may take the check while they haven't passed it. A learner who failed with no attempt left appears under **Out of attempts** on this page; tap **Give another try** to give them one more. They get a message.

Written and recorded answers wait for you in **Knowledge-check review** on your **Dashboard**. Give points and feedback for each answer, then tap **Release grade**. The learner then sees the result of each question with your feedback.

## Preview a course

Before learners see a course, walk through it the way they will. Open the course, tap **Preview** and choose:

- **A student, start to finish**: the real learner screens, lesson by lesson.
- **A parent**: the same course as a parent sees it.
- **Book view**: every lesson on one page that you can print, with its exercises and pictures.

You take part as a practice learner that only you can see. It never appears among the students or parents, it gets no emails or push messages, and nothing you do there (answers, homework, grades) reaches real learners or parents.

The bar at the top of the screen controls the preview:

1. **Preview as**: switch between student and parent.
2. **Published** shows what learners see today, **All** also shows hidden lessons and chapters, and **Drafts** shows only those. Hidden content never locks anything and never counts towards progress.
3. **New**, **Halfway** and **Finished**: where the practice learner stands. You are asked to confirm, because this replaces the practice progress.
4. **Grade the homework**: once the practice learner has handed in homework, this opens the real grading screen as yourself. Start the preview again afterwards; the progress is kept.
5. **Review**: write down what should be fixed on the screen you are looking at. Choose **Course team sees it** or **Only me** (only you can see it). When a note is dealt with, tap **Mark fixed**. **Edit this** ends the preview and opens that lesson in the course.
6. **Exit preview**: back to the course.