RUN YOUR ORGANISATION

Faculties, departments and teams

Units are how Peridot knows the shape of your organisation. A university has faculties with departments inside them; a company may have teams, or none at all. Units matter for two reasons: departments own courses, and roles are given on a unit.

How units fit together

A university's units. Courses belong to a department, and each offering of a course runs in a session and semester.

Add and change units

You add the first units while you set up the workspace: by hand, or by importing a spreadsheet. Later, use the + beside the units heading in the sidebar. You can rename the levels to match your institution, for example College and School instead of Faculty and Department.

A unit’s page

Each unit appears in the sidebar and on Home. Its page shows the people, courses and progress inside it, including anyone stuck now.

Lagoon City University›Home

Faculties people, courses and progressStructure

Faculty	Courses	People	Live
Science	14	3,180	268
Engineering	6	1,045	47
Management Sciences	4	890	12

The units table on Home. Select Structure to add or change units.

The academic calendar

Universities also set up sessions and semesters with their dates, for example the 2026/27 First Semester from 12 October 2026 to 13 February 2027, and levels that group students by year of study. Offerings run inside a session and semester.

Companies

A company’s units are teams, and they’re optional. There’s no calendar: an offering has a due date instead of a semester. Most companies start with one course and no teams.