Sunday School

Sunday School classes in ChurchCRM are managed as Groups with a special "Sunday School Class" type. This provides a dedicated dashboard with class-specific features.

Creating a Sunday School Class

1. Go to Groups → Dashboard, then click Add New Group (top-right of the page).
2. Enter the class name (e.g., "Children's Class - Ages 5-7")
3. Set Type of Group to Sunday School Class
4. Click Save Changes

Setting Up Roles

Sunday School groups come with two pre-created, protected roles: Teacher and Student. These roles cannot be renamed or deleted. The Student role is the default role for new members.

You can optionally add extra roles (e.g., "Assistant Teacher", "Substitute") using the Add Role button in the group's offcanvas editor.

Adding Students and Teachers

1. Open the Sunday School class.
2. Use Add Member on the group page and choose the person.
3. The new member is a Student unless you set another role. Use Change Role and Save to make someone a Teacher.

Tip: To add several students at once, put them in the Cart and choose Empty Cart to Group. The page title is Add Cart to Group. Click Add to Group.

Teachers managed from a ministry

With Volunteer Management (v2) on, a ministry that provides teachers for Sunday School can link one of its teams to a class. From then on the class's teachers are managed in the ministry: everyone qualified for a position of that team is a Teacher of the class. The class page says "Teachers of this class are managed in Ministries → … → …" (with an Open the ministry link for those who may manage it), and teacher changes are refused here. Students are added and removed on the class page as before. See Linking a team to a Sunday School class.

Filling a class by grade

If you record school grades, next year's class starts from a range of grades:

1. Open Reports → People Reports → People by Grade.
2. Choose From Grade and Through Grade, for example Kindergarten through 5th, and click Run Report.
3. Click Add All to Cart.
4. In the Cart, choose Empty Cart to Group and pick the class.

The class roster has a Grade column, so you can see each student's grade at a glance.

Tracking Attendance

Sunday School attendance is tracked through Events:

1. Create an Event Type for your Sunday School (e.g., "Sunday School - Children")
2. Create individual events for each class session
3. Check in students as they arrive
4. Generate attendance reports over time

See the Events documentation for detailed instructions.

Sunday School Dashboard

Each Sunday School class has a dedicated dashboard showing:

• Class roster with student and teacher lists
• Attendance statistics
• Quick actions for common tasks

Contacting the class

There is no View Members action and no Compose Message button.

On the class group page, Email opens a message to the class when email is turned on. Text copies numbers or opens the device messaging app. See Text Messages.