How the modules fit together

Campuses, the academic year and year groups come first because almost every record made afterwards is stamped with one of them. Getting this wrong is the only setup mistake that is genuinely painful to undo.

The academic year in particular is what keeps last year readable once this year's records start changing.

Staff, students and family contacts. Assigning staff to the programmes they teach is what makes every later view scope correctly — a teacher sees their own students because of this step, not because of a setting elsewhere.

Standards, then maps, then units. Coverage and gap reporting are counted from these records, so a school that skips ahead to lesson planning gets working lessons and empty dashboards.

Attendance, assessment and communication are what generate the data everything else reads. A term of these turns the analytics from empty to useful.

Nothing here needs the previous steps to be perfect — but the analytics will only be as good as the setup underneath them.

Insight views are counted from real records. On a school in its first weeks they are largely empty, and that is the software being honest rather than broken.

Judge them after a term of ordinary use, when there is something to count.