A course on Ekati is one subject: Mathematics for Sixth Year A, Oral English for JSS 2B, Introduction to Microeconomics at Level 200. It is the row you price, the row you attach to a group, the row a timetable slot refers to and the row a learner sees in their portal once you have published it.

Each course carries a handful of numbers that the rest of the school reads. The Coefficient says how much weight the subject carries in an average, the Credit Value says how much of a semester a university student spends on it, and the Category says whether it is a subject competence or a transversal one. Set those three once, correctly, and report cards, averages and transcripts all follow without anyone recalculating them.

Inside a course is the teaching material: modules and, inside them, lessons. A course can be a bare row — used purely for grading — or a fully built course with video lessons, documents and quizzes that learners work through at their own pace. The Status column says which of the two states a course is in: Draft while you build it, Published once learners can see it, Unpublished if you take it back down, Archived once it is finished for good.

Code

A short stable identifier — MATH101, ECJA6A, PHY200 — that never changes even when the title is reworded. It is what appears on report slips, in import spreadsheets, in timetable columns and in transcripts. Write it once, use it everywhere, and resist the urge to make it carry the year.

Coefficient

The weight the subject carries when an average is calculated. A school that decides Mathematics counts double in Sixth Year sets a higher coefficient on the Mathematics row than on English, and every average, broadsheet and ranking then respects that without further instruction. Set coefficients before the first mark of the term is entered, not after the results look wrong.

Credit value

The university equivalent: how many credits a course is worth in a semester, and therefore how much of a student’s programme it fills. Credits are what a level is measured in, so they are the number to check when a level does not add up to the total its programme requires.

Category

Whether the course is a Subject competence or a Transversal one — the distinction most secondary schools use for core subjects against skills such as entrepreneurship, civic education or ICT. It groups the subject correctly on the broadsheet and on the report.

The three flags worth deciding deliberately

Obligatory marks a course every learner in the group must take; it is what drives the obligatory list at a university’s course registration. Major / Minor separates the core of a programme from what a student may pick. In Order tells the portal that lesson 4 is meaningless before lesson 3, so the learner is walked through the material in sequence rather than free to wander.

A module is a unit, not a chapter number

Modules are the learning units a course is built from — Fractions, Trigonometry, The Cell, Introduction to Contract Law. Give each one a title and a short description that tells a learner what they will be able to do afterwards. A learner who can read the module list and understand the shape of the course has already got something from it.

Seven lesson formats, and which to use

Text & Rich Notes is a written lesson with headings, lists and links — the workhorse. Video Media and Audio take a link or an uploaded file, and a transcript is the kindest thing you can add for a class with no reliable connection. Photo / Image is for diagram-heavy topics such as anatomy or map work. Document / File carries a PDF or worksheet straight into the lesson. Quiz gives formative assessment with instant feedback, which is the single most effective way to keep a class engaged outside the classroom. Summative Exam is the graded, timed one — keep it for the end of a module rather than the middle.

Reordering is dragging

Drag a lesson to move it within a module or between two modules; drag a module header into a lesson list to nest it as a sub-topic. The order is what learners follow, so set it deliberately and use In Order when a lesson really does depend on the one before it. Nothing is saved until you save or drop it, and the live preview shows you the new order as you work.

Draft, Published, Unpublished, Archived

New courses start as Draft, which is invisible to learners and perfect for building in August. Publish makes it visible and opens it to the group enrolled. Unpublish takes it back down without deleting a single lesson — the right move when a lesson is wrong and you would rather not confuse a class mid-term. Archived is for courses you are finished with and want kept for the record.