Be sure to start the new academic year before starting the fall term (but not before starting the spring term!).
Create public/academic/offered/(term)/offered.csv, which tells which courses (and sections) are offered, and who is teaching them, where (term) is the term that you are starting. The term has a form similar to 2021-Spring or 2021-Fall.
Each line lists a course and an instructor, separated by a comma. See offered.csv for prior terms for examples.
During the term, you will need to get roster files from instructors of courses that require assessment information to be submitted. (You don't need rosters for courses that only have introduction requirements, since introductions to abilities do not have assessment information submitted.) See creating blank assessment forms from rosters.
When assessment data is submitted at the end of the term, you will need to create a directory to hold it and install it into that directory. Assessment data for CSCI2405-001 is installed in directory private/assessmentData/(term)/CSCI2405-001. Don't be creative about the course directory name. The software requires the format illustrated by CSCI2405-001. The character that separates the course and section numbers is a dash, or hyphen, not an underscore.
Put the submitted csv file and all of the sample files in that directory, not in subdirectories of it. See Installing and building assessment data for how to build the report pages.