Curriculum Hierarchy Philosophy

Course37 uses a structured 5-level hierarchy to organize educational content across your organization. This exact 5-step breakdown (Level → Group → Subject → Chapter → Topic) is the backbone of the platform — it powers question banks, exams, and website filtering.

You build and manage it from Curriculum in the left sidebar, under Content. The page is headed Education Curriculum — Manage your organization's educational structure.

The Education Curriculum page showing Tree View with an education level expanded

The Tree View shows your whole structure at a glance. Each education level displays how much sits beneath it — in the example above, Job Preparation holds 4 groups, 4 subjects, 20 chapters and 553 topics.

Build this before you build anything else. Questions are tagged to Subject → Chapter → Topic, exams pull from those tags, and your public course listings filter on Level and Group. Adding the hierarchy after you have created content means re-tagging all of it by hand.

Practical guide: Managing the Curriculum

The Hierarchy Structure

The hierarchy starts directly at the Education Level. From there, you build downwards:

1. Level (e.g., HSC, Job Preparation)
     └── 2. Group (e.g., Science, BCS)
          └── 3. Subject (e.g., Physics, English Literature)
               └── 4. Chapter (e.g., Kinematics, Chapter 4)
                    └── 5. Topic (e.g., Projectile Motion, Shakespeare)

Why This Hierarchy Matters

The curriculum hierarchy is not just internal organization — it directly powers what your students see:

Feature	Interacts With Hierarchy By:
Website Builder (Course Grids)	The "Course Listing" section on your website automatically filters and displays courses based on the Level and Group you assign here.
Question Bank	Questions are tagged to Subject → Chapter → Topic, enabling precise filtering and nested search.
Exam Generation	Generate automatic OMR/Online sets by telling the system: "Pull 5 questions from Kinematics, 3 from Optics."
Analytics	Performance reports can be analyzed by chapter and topic.
Performance Insights	The student performance report can highlight weak areas by Topic (e.g., "Student is weak in Projectile Motion").

Real-World Examples

Here is how you can adapt the 5-level structure for different types of educational goals:

Example A: Academic Coaching (HSC)

HSC (Level)
├── Science (Group)
│   ├── Physics (Subject)
│   │   ├── Ch 2: Motion (Chapter)
│   │   │   ├── Distance & Displacement (Topic)
│   │   │   └── Acceleration (Topic)

Example B: Job Preparation / Competitive Exams

Job Preparation (Level)
├── BCS (Group)
│   ├── English Literature (Subject)
│   │   ├── Chapter 4: Elizabethan Period (Chapter)
│   │   │   ├── Shakespeare (Topic)
│   │   │   └── Christopher Marlowe (Topic)

Best Practices

Plan before typing: Map out your full hierarchy on paper before entering it.
Keep naming consistent: Consistent naming makes searching and reporting easier.
Use concise labels: Shorter level/group names make filtering easier on the website and dashboard.

How to Create Tags — Additional categorization beyond the hierarchy
How to Manage Question Banks — Questions mapping to this tree
How to Edit Webpage Sections — How the Website Builder uses curriculum levels

Curriculum Hierarchy Philosophy