My courses: the one screen a teacher opens every morning
Your classes, your terms, and the two buttons that start the day’s work.
My Courses is the teacher’s front page. It holds nothing but the courses assigned to you, the term you are looking at, and the two buttons that matter: Enter Grades to open the mark sheet for a class, and Manage Content to open the lessons of the course. There is no settings page, no pricing, no configuration — a teacher who opens this screen has exactly the work waiting for them and nothing else.
A course appears here because somebody assigned it to you on the Courses screen for the academic period you are teaching. That is the whole mechanism: assignment is what puts a course on your list, and removing it takes it away. If a course you teach is missing, the assignment has not been made; if a course you no longer teach is still there, the assignment has not been removed. Neither is a fault in this screen.
At the top right is the Term selector. It opens on whichever academic time unit is currently marked current for your school, and lets you move between the terms and sequences of the year. A workload allocated for the whole academic year covers every term and sequence underneath it, so a teacher who is assigned for the year sees the course in each of them — which is why one assignment is enough rather than one per term.
What each course card tells you
Four lines of information, and two buttons.
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Line 1
The title and the code
The course as the learners see it, with the short code the school uses on printed lists and report cards.
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Line 2
The class
Which group you teach this course to. One course card per class, so a subject you teach twice appears twice.
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Badge
Primary or secondary
Whether you are the main or the additional teacher on this course for this term.
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When it shows
Unpublished warning
A small warning appears on the card when the course is not published, so learners cannot see its lessons yet.
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Button
Enter Grades
Opens the grade entry grid for this course in the selected term, ready for you to type marks.
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Button
Manage Content
Opens the course itself: its modules, its lessons and the order they appear in for learners.
A teacher’s normal day on this screen
Two buttons, three other places, and a five-minute routine.
Before the lesson: check the schedule
Your timetable is on Scheduling > Timetables, where a teacher sees the slots assigned to them, and the same week is shown on your dashboard under My Teaching. When the lesson actually happens, record the session in the execution logbooks from there. Those records are confirmed by the academic head and verified before payroll, so an unlogged session is an unpaid session.
After the lesson: enter the marks
Press Enter Grades on the course card. Choose the term if it is not already the right one, and the grid opens with one row per enrolled learner and one column per component of the assessment template — Continuous Assessment, Exam, whatever your school defined. Type the marks, press Save to keep them as you go, and press Submit Marks when the subject is finished. Only then does the class broadsheet count this subject as complete and allow the term to be published.
Between lessons: the work that came back
Assessment > Submissions holds everything learners have handed in for your courses — assignments, quiz attempts, exam papers — oldest first. Correct each one, add a remark, then release them. Releasing in batches is far quicker than one learner at a time, and learners are notified either way, so there is no reason to leave a corrected set unreleased for a week.
Weekly: check what is outstanding
Your dashboard tab My Teaching counts the work waiting to be corrected and the logbook sessions not yet submitted, and lists your courses and your week’s sessions. Five minutes on that tab on a Friday answers the only question that matters on a Friday: what will the office chase me about on Monday?
When a course is missing, or when a lesson will not open
Both almost always come back to one of two places.
The course is not in my list
The assignment has not been made, or it was made for a different academic period. Ask whoever maintains Academic > Courses to check the Teachers column on your course and the academic period it covers. Remember that the term selector at the top right is what decides which period you are looking at — a course assigned for the first term will not appear while you are viewing the second.
The card is there but the lessons are empty
That is a content question rather than an assignment one. Press Manage Content and check whether the course has modules and lessons at all, and whether they have been released on the course schedule. A course whose lessons are scheduled for a later term does not open to learners yet, and the warning on the card is telling you the course is not published yet.
The mark sheet is empty
Almost always the assessment template. Check that the course has one attached on Academic > Courses; without it the grid has no columns to fill, because it cannot know the maximum score or the weight of each component. A grid with a template attached but no learners means the class has nobody enrolled for that term — which is an enrolment question, not a grading one.
Who assigns a course to a teacher
Assignment is made from the course record by a super administrator, an institution admin or a secretary — the people who hold the staffing plan. A teacher can build content for their own courses and schedule lessons for them, but cannot reassign a course to themselves. If nobody at the school is sure who assigns courses, that is the first thing to establish, because it unblocks everything else on this page.
My Courses questions
Asked by teachers in their first week with Ekati.
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My course is not showing in My Courses. Who do I ask?
First check the Term selector at the top right: a course assigned for the first term will not appear while you are looking at the second. Then ask whoever maintains Academic > Courses to confirm your name is in the Teachers column of that course. If it is there and the course still does not appear, the assignment was saved for a different academic period.
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Do I have to press Save and Submit Marks separately?
Yes, and the two do different things. Save keeps what you have typed so you can come back to it — use it every day. Submit Marks tells the school the subject is finished for that term; it is what counts the course as complete on the class broadsheet and allows the term to be published. Marks saved but not submitted never reach a report card, which is why the board refuses to publish.
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I teach the same subject in two classes. Do I type the marks twice?
Yes, once per class, and that is correct rather than a duplication. Each class is a different group of learners with its own results, its own average and its own rank, and a mark belongs to a learner in a class. The subject and the assessment template are shared, so you are not re-entering the structure — only the marks of a second set of children.
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What is the difference between Enter Grades and Manage Content?
Enter Grades opens the mark sheet: one row per learner, one column per component of the assessment template, where you type and submit marks. Manage Content opens the course itself, where you add and reorder modules and lessons and check what learners will see. A teacher needs the second when preparing a course and the first when marking it; they are rarely needed in the same sitting.