# Classes & subjects — Academium SMS [View the HTML page](https://academium.com.ng/sms/features/classes-and-subjects/) > Set up classes in the order students move through them, split them into sections, assign class teachers and subjects, and retire a class without losing its history. Classes & subjects ## Your school’s structure, set up once. Classes, sections, class teachers and subjects. Registers, timetables, results and promotion all build on them. [Download to get started](https://academium.com.ng/downloads?product=sms) [All SMS features](https://academium.com.ng/sms/features) An example school. Adding JSS 3 at position 3 moves the senior classes down one place. Classes and sections ## One class. As many sections as you run. Name sections the way your school does, from A and B to Science and Arts. - **Sections you can change later.** Choose which sections a class is split into when you add it, and adjust them as the school grows. - **Sizes from real enrolment.** Each section shows how many students are enrolled in it, so there is no separate capacity to keep up to date. - **Skills assessment by class.** Where junior assessment is in use, choose whether a class is assessed on skills. Turning it on gives the class every active skills category. A fictional class gains a third section. Turning on skills assessment gives it the school’s active skills categories. Class teachers ## A class teacher for every section. Assign the teacher responsible for each class and section. - **Reassign in one step.** Move a teacher to a different class, or swap who looks after one, without removing and re-adding anyone. - **Named where it matters.** Class teachers appear beside their class on the attendance dashboard, so follow-up goes to the right person. - **Nothing removed by accident.** Removing a class teacher asks for confirmation first. A teacher moves to another class in one change, and the class she leaves gets a new class teacher. Names are fictional. Subjects ## The standard subject list, in one step. Start from the Nigerian curriculum instead of typing every subject. - **See it before it happens.** A preview lists the subjects that will be added and the names that will be tidied. Subjects already on file are skipped and nothing is deleted. - **Consistent names.** Common short forms such as Maths, Govt and Agric become Mathematics, Government and Agricultural Science. - **No internet needed.** The list is built into SMS, so it works on a school server that is offline. - **Your own subjects too.** Add any subject with a code and a type: Mandatory, Optional, Theory or Practical. An example preview: new subjects are listed, short forms are renamed to their standard names, and subjects already on file are left alone. Subjects for each class ## Each class gets its own subjects. Assign subjects to every class and section. Timetables and exam schedules use the same list. - **One list, used everywhere.** Only subjects assigned to a class and section can be placed on its timetable, and its exam schedule lists the same subjects. - **Bring last session’s subjects forward.** Copy the previous session’s assignments into a new one. SMS shows what will be copied first, and only copies into a session that has none yet. An example new session. The preview says what will be copied before anything is written. Retiring a class or subject ## Stop offering it. Keep its history. When your school stops running a class or subject, archive it instead of deleting it. - **Records stay intact.** Marks, enrolments and timetables that refer to an archived class keep working. It is simply no longer offered. - **Reversible in a click.** Restore an archived class or subject whenever you need it. - **A clear warning before deleting.** Deleting a class tells you how many students are still enrolled in it before anything happens. Archiving a class the school no longer runs keeps everything that refers to it. Deleting one warns about enrolled students first. Example classes. FAQs ## Classes & subjects questions Setting up the structure everything else depends on. [Still have a question?](https://academium.com.ng/main/page-contact) ### Can we use streams like Science and Arts? Yes. Sections can carry any name, so a class can be split into A and B, or into Science, Arts and Commercial. ### Why does the order of classes matter? Each class has a position in your school’s progression. Student promotion reads that order to suggest which class each one moves into next. ### Does adding the standard subject list need internet? No. The list is part of SMS. It skips subjects you already have, so running it again adds nothing twice. ### What if we stop running a class? Archive it. Its records stay in place, it is no longer offered when enrolling, and you can restore it later. ## Set up your classes and subjects in Academium SMS. Download Academium SMS and set up your school, try a demo, or start in free mode. [Download to get started](https://academium.com.ng/downloads?product=sms) [Explore other features](https://academium.com.ng/sms/features)