- Create the new term with its dates.
- Make it active.
- That's it. The old term stops being the default view and stays completely readable.
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Last term's events, ledger, attendance and standings are all still there, filed under it. The dashboard starts clean because it shows the active term, not because the old one went anywhere. You can ask about it — "what did we spend on formal last year?" — and get an answer.