Create and edit sections

Sections in the form are what helps structure the content and questions you're asking Families to answer. In Avela, sections can have a particular order depending on what you'd like to accomplish:

• For Apply: Have families choose from a range of schools based on their eligibility, and provide additional information. This can lead to Application forms, Transfer forms, Intent to return, and similar forms.
• For Enroll: Have families provide additional information, knowing already which school they're going to. This can lead to Registration forms, or Reenrollment forms, as well as other similar forms.

How do I create a section?

1. Once you've created your form - see Create form , click "Add section". This will let you add your first section to the form.

2. Bearing in mind the kind of form you'd like to create - An application or an enrollment form, indicate the category you'd like this section to have:

• Eligibility or Pre Ranking- For asking questions that will eliminate certain schools from the family's available selection, based on how they answer . There can only be 1 of this section category.
• Ranking - Necessary for families to pick from the range of available schools, which is a combination of their answers to the previous section (Eligibility) and the schools active in the enrollment period. Learn how to configure schools. There can only be 1 of this section category, and it must be placed after Pre-Ranking.
• General - For asking any kind of additional question that is not an eligibility question, since this section is placed after Ranking, or on its own for forms that are not Applications or similar to it. There can be multiple General sections in any form.
• Disclaimer - For asking families to aknowledge their understanding of the form submission prior to sending it. Placed at the very end, is not required for any kind of form.

3. General sections can also be made Internal only - this is very useful if you'd like to have Staff fill in a number of questions that won't be visible to families.

4. Family editability by status. For indicating under which status (or statuses) the form should be editable for families. Depending on your organization's workflow, you may want families to edit the form only while it is In progress or just Submitted, but not allow them to edit beyond that status - this is totally up to you! 

Here's an example of what a form looks like for Families - the form remains fully editable for Staff with permissions.

When all sections are editable	When some sections are editable	When no sections are editable

5. Once you're done, save your section by clicking "Add section".

How do I edit a section?

1. Once you've created your section, you'll be able to see an "Edit" button in the list of content elements. 

2. Once you're done, Save your section.