Build your curriculum

Your curriculum is what students learn at each belt. In this video you'll see how it's organised, add a new technique, and attach videos families can practise with at home.

You'll find your curriculum under Admin, then Settings, then School setup, then Curriculum. Every technique, form and bit of etiquette lives here.

Items are grouped by the belt they belong to, and each group shows how many items it holds. Click a belt to open or close it.

Inside a belt, items sit under their category, like stances, kicks or blocks, so a long list stays easy to scan.

Under each item it says Required or Optional. Required items must be done before a student can move on from that belt and show up as ready to test.

Expand all opens every belt at once. Here's an optional item at yellow belt. Optional items are still tracked, they just don't hold anyone back.

To set the teaching order, click Reorder, then use the arrows to move an item up or down within its belt. Every move saves on its own.

Click Done when the order looks right, then Collapse all to tidy up.

To add something new, click Add curriculum item. Let's add a spinning hook kick for brown belts.

Choose the belt it belongs to. Leave it on Any belt if every student should work on it.

Pick a category from your list. The list itself is managed in Skill categories, linked right under the field.

Add a description with the coaching notes instructors should see on the mat.

Tick Required before moving on from this belt if a student must complete it before their next promotion. Items on Any belt can't be required, because they never block a promotion.

Click Save changes to add it to the list. Once it's saved, you can attach videos and handouts to it. We'll leave this one unsaved.

To add materials to an item you already have, click it in the list. Let's open Front Stance, at white belt.

Scroll down to Training materials. Videos and handouts you attach here show with this technique in the parent app, so students can practise at home.

Pick a video from your video library, then click Attach video. Attach handout works the same way for your documents. Both save right away.

The videos themselves live in the Video library, under Programs, then Videos. Each one unlocks when a student reaches its belt, or any belt above it.

Click Add video to add one. Give it a title, then pick the belt it unlocks at. Students at that belt and above can watch it.

Choose where it is hosted, YouTube or Vimeo, and paste the link. Upload it to your own channel as Unlisted first.

Leave Published ticked so eligible families can watch it, or untick it to keep a draft. Then click Add video.

That's your curriculum. Next, we'll track it on the mat during class.