Setting Your School's Target Audience and Proficiency Levels

Do you teach children, adults — or both? In Settings → Your Offer you can define who you teach, configure proficiency levels, and enable the types of activities you offer. The rest of the system adapts automatically — from the sign-up form to how courses are classified.

School target audience

Go to Settings → Your Offer 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.

If you teach only one age group ("Children only" or "Adults only"), the age group option does not appear when creating courses — the system assigns it automatically.

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 Offer. In the Proficiency 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.

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.

A participant's proficiency level is updated automatically when they are added to a course with a given proficiency level assigned.

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 article.

Proficiency levels section in Your Offer settings with edit and delete options

Enabling activity types

In Your Offer you can also enable the types of activities you offer:

• Individual courses → Collecting Sign-Ups for Individual Courses

• Trial lessons → Collecting Sign-Ups for Trial Lessons

• Camps and holiday programmes → Camps — Sign-Ups and Management

• Events → Managing Sign-Ups and Events

Enabling an activity type makes the relevant section appear in your panel and sign-up forms.