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# Setting Your School's Target Audience and Proficiency Levels
Does your school teach children, adults — or both? In *Settings → Your Offering* you can define who you teach, configure proficiency levels, and enable the types of activities your school offers. These settings determine how the system classifies courses and what participants see in the sign-up form.
## School target audience
Go to *Settings → Your Offering* and select one of the options in the *Target audience* section:
* **Children only** — all group courses are automatically classified as "for children"; parent fields in the sign-up form are always required.
* **Adults only** — all courses are classified as "for adults"; parent fields are hidden.
* **Children and adults** — you can assign each group course its own age group: *Children*, *Adults*, or *Children and adults* (mixed). An automatic *Age* filter will then appear in the sign-up table to help clients quickly find the right classes.
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If your school teaches only one age group ("Children only" or "Adults only"), the age group option does not appear when creating courses — the system assigns it automatically.
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## Proficiency levels
By default, ActiveNow includes three proficiency levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. If you use different names at your school or categorise participants differently, you can change this.
Go to *Settings → Your Offering*. In the *Proficiency levels* section, click *Edit*.
Here you can rename levels, add new ones, or reorder them. When you're done, click *Save*.
If a level is no longer used at your school, you can delete it at any time. Courses previously assigned to that level will be preserved, but the level will no longer appear when creating new courses or adding participants.
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Proficiency levels are visible to participants when signing up for courses. Well-named levels help participants assess where they stand on their own — and choose the right course without having to contact the school.
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A participant's proficiency level is updated automatically when they are added to a course with a given proficiency level assigned.
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If you use the **Skills** feature, you'll find a *Skills* button next to each level — it opens the skills configuration in a new interface. More about assigning skills to participants in the [Assigning Skills to Participants](/en/client-management/managing-participant-skills.md) article.
## Enabling activity types
In *Your Offering* you can also enable the types of activities your school offers:
* **Individual courses** → [Collecting Sign-Ups for Individual Courses](/en/online-sign-ups/individual-course-sign-up-form.md)
* **Trial lessons** → [Collecting Sign-Ups for Trial Lessons](/en/online-sign-ups/trial-lessons.md)
* **Camps and holiday programmes** → [Camps — Sign-Ups and Management](/en/camps-and-events/camps-sign-ups-and-management.md)
* **Events** → [Managing Sign-Ups and Events](/en/camps-and-events/managing-events.md)
Enabling an activity type makes the relevant section appear in your panel and sign-up forms.
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