Most subjects are taken by the whole class. Some are not: the new lower secondary curriculum gives a Senior 3–4 candidate seven compulsory subjects and up to two they choose, out of the twelve or so a school offers.
Until you say otherwise, YoShule assumes every subject is taken by everyone — which is right for primary, right for Senior 1 and 2, and right for most A-Level classes until you split them into combinations.
This screen appears only for a school that runs an O-Level section, since choosing subjects is a lower-secondary idea. Add one under Settings → Academic if you expected to see it.
Two steps
- Subjects → Assignments — find the subject on the class and set Taken by to Those who chose it. Do this on the S3 and S4 classes; leave S1 and S2 alone, where everything is compulsory.
- Assessment → Elective choices — pick the term and class, then click each learner's subjects. A highlighted subject is one they are entered for.
A class where every subject is compulsory says so and offers nothing to click.
What changes once a subject is chosen
The subject stops being everybody's, everywhere at once:
- Report cards carry the learner's own subjects. Two learners in the same class get different lists.
- Marksheets show a dash for a subject a learner does not take, rather than a blank that reads as a missing mark.
- The marks grid lists only the learners who take the subject, so the paper can actually reach zero outstanding — before this, a paper only some learners sat was permanently outstanding.
- The workbook carries the same rows as the grid.
- Exam seating sizes the sitting to the learners entered for it.
- The overall average that ranks a learner is over their own subjects.
Choices carry forward
A choice belongs to the learner and the subject, not to a term or a class. A candidate picks entering Senior 3 and sits the same subjects at UCE in Senior 4, so opening an S4 class shows what was chosen at S3, ready to edit. Nothing is re-entered at promotion.
Because a choice carries no term, changing one changes what an earlier term's card would print if you regenerated it. That is why a subject whose marks have been submitted cannot be removed — YoShule refuses, and names the subject. Reopen the marks first if it is a genuine correction.
Marks that are still in draft are fair game: a learner who switches elective in week two is a correction, not a rewrite of history.
Who may record them
The class teacher for their own stream, and the Dean of Studies or Head Teacher for any class — the same rule as the class teacher's remark. A subject teacher cannot: which subjects a child is entered for is not one subject's business.