Welcome to the Accelerus Quickstart tutorial!
In this tutorial, we will begin by adding administrator users to your Accelerus instance, and customise terminology for your school.
Step 1: Cohort Types
Cohorts describe any group of students that isn’t a class. This might be year groups, tutor groups, pastoral groups, or houses, depending on your school.
To begin customising cohort types, navigate to MANAGEMENT -> School Settings and tools
Now navigate to Cohort Types, and add change the names of tutor groups (groups within a year level) and Years (students in the same academic year) to match your school.
Step 2: Logo and colours
You can quickly upload your school’s logo, and set the header colour to match your school’s colour theme
From ‘School Settings an Tools’, click ‘Custom Logo and Colours’. From there, you can upload your school’s logo and set the background colour.
Step 3: Adjust teacher terminology
You can change the names of roles in your school, such as ‘Teacher in Charge’ or ‘Head of Department’, to match your school’s leadership stucture.
From the Management tab, navigate to ‘Security’:
Click the group type you want to edit on the menu on the left, then change the names of each role to match your school’s leadership structure.
You can also add additional roles, for example if you have multiple leaders or deputy leaders.
Permissions can also be set here: click here for an overview of the Accelerus permission system.