2.2.3 Subjects

FineTime needs to know what subjects are taught at your school. Examples of subjects are Maths and History. The subjects you enter here are used when specifying the courses offered by your school (see section 2.2.5).

Figure 2.4: A New Subject dialog in which the subject Chemistry is defined. The abbreviation CH is used for this subject in exported files.

Choose School - Subjects from the menu bar to invoke the Subjects dialog. You can add, modify and delete items from the list of subjects as explained in section 2.1.

The New Subject dialog, shown in Figure 2.4, has fields in which you can enter the full and abbreviated names for the subject. The abbreviated name is used when exporting the school resource data in certain formats. Both the full and abbreviated names must be unique.