This article explains how to manage courses in Forefront.

If you are making significant changes — adding subjects, adding sub-curricula, or adding grade levels — email support@forefront.education to avoid issues.

Terminology in Forefront

• Assessment: sets of questions or observational frameworks with defined scores, performance levels, and Standards alignments (ex., Fall G2 USNS)
• Program: sets of assessments, can be grouped into “parts” (ex., Universal Screeners for Number Sense)
• Curriculum: the assessments, standards systems, and documents
• Subject: can be used to organize curricula
• Lens: a way to highlight key standards or combine standards systems (Read more about lenses here.)
• Course: one or more curricula and associated documents
• Class: a group of students in a school with a teacher and a course

Examples of Course Set-Ups

An elementary school teacher has: 

• one class of students 
• in the course third grade
• subjects are math, science, social studies and ELA, which are each a curriculum with their own programs of assessments.

A middle school teacher:

• teaches the subject math
• she has several classes in the course Sixth-Grade Math
• has lenses to look at assessment results through the lenses of state standards, priority standards, and historic student data.

Course Management for Clients

Adding Assessments to Courses

Adding Handouts/Printable Documents to Courses

Configuring Lenses

Changing Program or Part Names, or Documents Folders

Step 1: Navigate to the Course Management in the left sidebar. Click the course that is being modified.

Step 2: Click the text in the “Part” or “Program” column (for assessments) or the “Folder” and “Sub-Folder” columns (documents) to type text, or use the dropdown to change the text.

Course Management to Connect with Forefront About

• Adding grade levels
• Adding subjects
• Configuring intervention courses

Need more support?

Submit a support request or email our team at support@forefront.education.