Once your lookup tables—such as terms, buildings, rooms, and grades—are set up in ParishSOFT, you can begin adding sessions to schedule classes. This guide walks you through the process of creating sessions, ensuring your religious education calendar is organized and ready for student enrollment.

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Before adding sessions, you must first populate the lookup table (building blocks) for the Religious Education Module (including term, building, room, department, grade, and volunteer role). You will only be able to add sessions to a term where the term was configured to use sessions. The information you supply in creating a session will be used later to create a class schedule referred to as Meeting Times on the Classes page.

Note: Attendance will only be available to use for classes in terms that use sessions.

1. To add a session, click Classes & Sessions on the Navigation Bar.
2. Click the Sessions tab to go to the Sessions page.
    
3. Click the button or the to go into the Add Session page:
    
4. Fill in the appropriate information for your Session:
5. You may now either close the session page to add another session or add classes to your session using either the Classes tab or the add class [+ Class] button.

Updated March 30, 2026 14:02