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Configuration

The Configuration menu groups every piece of data that structures your activity: what you teach, your school years, your students attached to schedules, and the vocabulary used to classify your scores.

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If this is your first visit, getting started walks step by step through creating a course, a school year and its first schedule. This page is more of a reference for each Configuration screen on its own.

Courses

The list of subjects you teach (Piano, Music theory…). Deliberately minimal data: a name and an "active" checkbox. A course has neither a student nor a schedule of its own — it only becomes meaningful once attached to a school year, see Courses of the year below.

Academic years

The list of your school years: a label, a start date and an end date. Nothing else — no course, no student at this stage.

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An academic year on its own is not enough to create schedules: at least one course needs to be attached to it, from the next screen.

Courses of the year

This is where an academic year and a course meet. Each row on this screen represents one specific pair, for example "2026-2027 — Piano". A teacher who teaches both piano and music theory the same year creates two rows: "2026-2027 — Piano" and "2026-2027 — Music theory".

The + button opens a window with two dropdowns: the academic year, then the course. Clicking an existing row opens its own page, which contains:

Schedules

A card with one tab per weekday, listing the students with a slot that day for this course of the year. The full detail of creating a schedule (student, day, time, level) is covered in getting started, step 3.

Concerts and auditions

A second card lets you create the events students of this course can be entered into — this list feeds the "Performances" picker in the Journal. Each event has:

Name
For example "Christmas recital".
Type
Concert Internal audition Evaluation Private Other
Date & place
The place is optional.

Observation templates

Pre-written texts, tied to a type (Positive Neutral Negative), offered in one click when adding an observation in the Journal instead of typing it out every time. See the "Create your observation templates" part of getting started for examples.

Score library data

At the bottom of the Configuration menu, a second section groups classic management lists for the vocabulary used on scores and pieces: Categories, Tags, Arrangers, Composers, Lyricists, Interpreters. Each is a simple list with add, edit and delete.

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Going through these screens is not mandatory for tags, composers, arrangers, lyricists and interpreters: they can also be created directly from a score's or a piece's file, by typing their name. See Creating on the fly. Categories, on the other hand, must be created here first.