Course categories (School Admin)

Organise your courses into a nestable category tree; site-wide categories are shared from the platform and shown read-only.

What this page does

The Course categories page lets you group your courses into a nestable tree — for example Primary → Grade 5 → Mathematics. Each row shows the category name, optional ID number, a course count and badges for Site-wide (shared from the platform, read-only) and Hidden (not visible to students). You can create, edit and delete your own categories; site-wide categories can only be managed by a Super Admin.

Common tasks

Click New category and enter a name; optionally choose a parent, an ID number and a description, and toggle Hidden.

Click Create to add it to the tree.

Hover a category you own and click the edit pencil to change its name, parent or visibility, then Save.

Assign courses to a category from the Courses page filters or the course settings form.

Deleting a category moves its courses up to the parent and removes its sub-categories. Site-wide categories are read-only here — manage them in the Super Admin portal.

Buttons & controls

Opens the create modal (name, parent, ID number, description, hidden toggle).

Hover-revealed on editable rows — re-opens the modal pre-filled to update the category.

Removes the category; its courses move to the parent and sub-categories are removed.

Site-wide = shared from the platform (read-only); Hidden = not shown to students.

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