The Curriculum Support Plan (CAPS) is a structured curriculum maintenance service for schools following the CAPS curriculum framework. It ensures your school’s curriculum is correctly set up and maintained in line with CAPS requirements, including DOE subjects, from the start of the academic year.
At the beginning of each year, once the Department of Education releases and confirms the CAPS curriculum within the d6 system, the OSM team ensures your curriculum is correctly implemented and aligned.
When your school is on this plan, the OSM team will:
Insert the approved CAPS yearly preset into your system.
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Apply the preset for all grades and all terms (Term 1–4).
Ensure the curriculum setup is fully aligned to CAPS.
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Ensure all DOE subjects, tasks, assessments, and weightings are correctly structured according to CAPS.
At the start of the year, when we insert the CAPS preset:
If your school has already captured marks, we will notify you in advance that these marks may be removed as part of the curriculum reset and CAPS preset insertion process.
A system-wide communication and notice will be sent to all schools on this plan:
Before setup begins
During the setup process
After completion, confirming that schools may continue capturing marks
Please note:
It is critical that schools do not capture marks until the CAPS preset has been inserted and the curriculum setup is confirmed as complete.
Once communication is sent confirming completion, schools may continue with normal mark entry.
Important: There is a high likelihood that existing marks will be removed, as the system requires a clean CAPS-aligned structure before marks can be accurately captured.
We cannot insert the CAPS preset if:
The school has not rolled over into the new academic year, or
Marks are still being actively captured in the current year setup.
Before the new year setup, schools must ensure:
All grades (Term 1–4) have subjects correctly activated.
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All subjects that will be used in the academic year are correctly selected and active.
This plan includes CAPS curriculum setup and maintenance only, specifically:
Inserting CAPS presets
Aligning the curriculum structure to CAPS
Ensuring tasks, assessments, and weightings follow CAPS
This plan does not include:
Subject choices
Subject groups or allocations
Calculation methods
Decision guidelines
Non-DOE subject setup
Ongoing structural curriculum redesign outside CAPS
Changing of Alias names
We do not adjust CAPS structure or weightings outside of CAPS compliance, as this may place the school at risk.
Any changes outside CAPS must be supported by:
A Department memo
An ATP document
A district circular
In such cases, changes may be implemented but will be confirmed as being at the school’s own risk and responsibility.
All non-DOE subjects are the responsibility of the school, including:
Subject setup
Tasks and assessments
Weightings and structure
These are not included in this plan.
No. Schools must wait until communication is sent confirming that CAPS setup is complete.
In many cases, yes. Marks may be removed because the system must be reset to apply the CAPS preset correctly. Communication is always sent in advance.
Communication is sent before setup begins, during the process, and after completion (the green light to continue capturing marks).
No. The system must first be rolled over to the current academic year before CAPS setup can be applied.
Ensure all subjects are correctly activated.
My School > Curriculum > Set Up Learning Programme > Step 1
This is a CAPS curriculum compliance and maintenance plan only, ensuring that your school’s curriculum is correctly structured, aligned, and maintained according to official CAPS requirements.
Last updated: June 2026 | Version 0.5