How to set up an academic calendar in Hong Kong

setting up an academic calendar in Hong Kong

Every downstream fight — attendance, exams, fees — is a calendar fight that started in week zero.

Every downstream fight — attendance, exams, fees — is a calendar fight that started in week zero. Hong Kong still has to do this against HKDSE, IB, IGCSE. Academic operations align to September intake with mid-year transfer windows and Hong Kong term boundaries on a central holiday-aware calendar. Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.

term fees with transport and activity levies Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Importing last year’s file blindly.
Three unofficial calendars.
term fees with transport and activity levies Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.

Name the year start

April, September, January, July — whatever this campus actually uses.

In Hong Kong: Academic operations align to September intake with mid-year transfer windows and Hong Kong term boundaries on a central holiday-aware calendar. term fees with transport and activity levies Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.

Every downstream fight — attendance, exams, fees — is a calendar fight that started in week zero. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

April, September, January, July — whatever this campus actually uses.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.
Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.

One owner

Official exceptions only.

Official exceptions only.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.
Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.

Board seasons as blocks

Until circulars exist, do not invent Mondays.

Until circulars exist, do not invent Mondays.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.
Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.

Staff vs pupil days

INSET can be a pupil holiday and a staff working day.

INSET can be a pupil holiday and a staff working day.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.
Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.

Where this usually breaks

Importing last year’s file blindly. Three unofficial calendars.

Hong Kong is not exempt. HKDSE, IB, IGCSE. Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.

Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Importing last year’s file blindly.
Three unofficial calendars.
Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.

How Schoolyi fits

Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave.

Open /features/academic-foundation after you can describe the awkward case. This page is a playbook, not a feature grid. Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.

Working days yes. Schemes no. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Playbook: /how-to/set-up-academic-calendar
Product: /features/academic-foundation
Book a demo with your awkward case, not a slide deck

Questions

Can two boards share a calendar? Working days yes. Schemes no.

Who may close a day? A named role. Academic operations align to September intake with mid-year transfer windows and Hong Kong term boundaries on a central holiday-aware calendar.

Emergency same-day? Yes, or percentages are fiction. Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Can two boards share a calendar? Working days yes. Schemes no.
Who may close a day? A named role.
Emergency same-day? Yes, or percentages are fiction.

Bring this playbook to a demo in Hong Kong

Write the awkward case before you watch slides: a mid-year joiner, a concession after invoicing, or a working-day exception. Schoolyi treats the academic calendar as the source of working days for attendance, exams, and leave. Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE. Academic operations align to September intake with mid-year transfer windows and Hong Kong term boundaries on a central holiday-aware calendar.

Schoolyi is the operations system for that walkthrough — one student record, one academic calendar, publish gates on results, receipts that match finance. Score statutory filing and hardware as not met unless the deployment actually has them. term fees with transport and activity levies HKDSE, IB, IGCSE

Every downstream fight — attendance, exams, fees — is a calendar fight that started in week zero. April, September, January, July — whatever this campus actually uses. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Open /features/academic-foundation
Book a demo with the awkward case
Named facts: Hong Kong, HKDSE, IB, IGCSE.