Classes

Classes are the things somebody finishes — a membership class, a new believers' course, a workshop, a retreat. They have sessions, they can have prerequisites, and completing one can count toward membership.

A class is something you finish. A group is people who meet. If it runs indefinitely, it is a group.

What you need

• A Passport account with the Admin or Super Admin role
• Your people imported — see Importing & Exporting Data

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Add a class

1. Go to Admin → Settings → Classes.
2. Click + Add class.
3. Fill in the details:

Field	What to enter
Name	Required. What members will see
Type	Class, Workshop, Program, Bible study, Retreat, or Other
Description	Shown to members in the portal
Category	Keeps related classes together — see below
Virtual	Tick for a self-paced class taught with video and text modules rather than in a room
Prerequisite classes	Optionally require another class to be completed first
Requires approval to enroll	Turn on if enrolment should be reviewed before it is confirmed
Teachers	Staff who can view and manage enrolments for this class on the Class Management page

4. Click Add class.

Duplicate a class

Click the copy icon on a class row to create a copy with the same settings — useful for a course you run every term. Change the name and dates, and leave the rest.

Edit, delete and reorder

Use the pencil icon to edit and the trash icon to delete; deletions are permanent. Drag rows by the handle to reorder them, the same as groups.

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The Passport class library

Passport maintains a set of ready-to-run studies so you do not have to write one from scratch to get started. You will find them under Admin → Settings → Classes, at the bottom of the page:

Study	Roughly
His Marvelous Light	11 lessons — the new-convert study most Apostolic churches teach first
Who Is Jesus? The One True God Revealed	11 lessons
The Power of the Name of Jesus	11 lessons
Life in the Spirit	12 lessons
Holiness: Called Out of Darkness	12 lessons
The Apostles' Doctrine	11 lessons

There are two ways to use one, and the difference matters:

	What happens	When to pick it
Enable	The class appears for your members exactly as Passport maintains it. You cannot rename it, categorise it, assign a leader or attach an incentive — and it stays up to date on its own.	You are happy with it as-is
Copy	You get your own copy of everything, including the lesson content. From then on it is an ordinary class of yours, and Passport's updates do not reach it.	You want to change the wording, the order, or who teaches it

:::tip Start by enabling, copy later Enabling costs nothing and can be undone. If you find yourself wanting to change a line, copy it then — you lose nothing by having enabled it first. :::

Organise classes with categories

Categories group related classes together, both in the portal and in your admin view — for example Believers pathway and Path to ministry.

1. Go to Admin → Settings → Classes.
2. Open the Categories tab.
3. Add, rename, or reorder categories.
4. Assign a class to a category when you create or edit it.

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Classes and membership

A class can be one of the things your church requires before somebody counts as a member. If you have set that up under Visitor-Member Path, a member's progress through the required class shows on the Grow tab of their portal — so they can see what is left rather than having to ask.

:::note Prerequisites are enforced, not advisory If a class has a prerequisite, members who have not completed it cannot enrol. Use this for genuine sequences and leave it off otherwise. :::

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Common questions

Question	Answer
How do members enrol?	From the Grow tab of the portal or the app.
Can I see who has completed a class?	Yes — open the class from Grow → Classes in the main navigation.
What is the difference between a category and a type?	Type describes the format (workshop, retreat). Category is your own grouping, and is what members see.
Does completing a class make somebody a member?	Only if you have made it a membership requirement.

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Next steps

• Something ongoing — set up a group instead.
• Make a class count toward membership — Visitor-Member Path.
• Record who attended — Attendance Tracking.