Semester Manager is different than other online course platforms. It is designed to be used in universities, schools and collages.

Create a Subject

To create a subject, follow these steps:

1. Go to Register and get register in a simple step.
2. If you are already registered, then login at Login. You will be directed to the user panel.
3. If you are already logged in and on the page, click Go To Class on the top right menu to go the user pane. 
4. Click the Teacher or Student Panel according to your status. 
5. If you are using Semester Manager for the first time, you have to connect your uniersity. For that, select your university from the list. If not available in the list, then add your university by clicking the "Add University" button. Be sure that you add http or https while adding the url of your university website. If you are from non-english speaking country, also provide name of the university in your local language. 
6. Create new subject. A small guide is available on each page.
7. Provide long name, short name, code of the subject. Select credit hours and ETCS. If you are not following the ETCS system, then leave the default value. 
8. Once you create a subject, it will create 14 weeks program with default chapter names, while each chapter have default two topics. 
9. You can update/edit the chapter (topics of each week) name and internal topics.

Going to Subject

Once you create the subject, it will appear on the subject list at https://semestermanager.com/subjects. Follow these steps to setup your subject:

1. First, click the edit button in front of the subject name to setup your subject and provide some basic information.
2. In the subject edit page, if you are selling this course, provide the amount in USD. If this course is for your students in your organization, leave the default value as 0.
3. Write a one sentence introduction of your page. This will appear in the list of courses page. Be precise and abstracted.
4. Provide aim of this course. This will express the syllabus of the course and help students to understand what they will learn.
5. After necessary editions, click the save button that will lead you to the list of the courses. 

Semester Settings

Once you edit the subject, click the subject name from the list. Here you will see list of semesters. For each semester, you have to create a new semester that will have its own students, exams, homeworks, daily homeworks, notice board etc. By default, when you create a course, it will also create a semester having starting and end dates. Now, you need to setup your semester. Do the following steps:

• Click the setting button in front of the present semester.
• Edit start and end dates of the semester. 
• If you want to allow anyone enter your semester and see the course materials, do not provide semester key. Otherwise provide a semester key that you will have to give to your students. They will need it to enter your course materials.
• If you are teaching in a class room (not online), you can set the attendance timing, day and minutes for tolerance.
• When you are teaching in a class, use semester manager to open your topic, there, students will see a QR code on the screen. They must scan this code using a qr code reader software to take attendance in your class. After the tolerance minutes passed, attendance will not be counted. 
• After the necessary settings, click the save button to go back to the semesters list.