Use Backbone's `render` convention instead

cms/static/coffee/src/main.coffee

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   viewStack: []
 
   start: ->
-    new CMS.Views.Course el: $('section.main-container')
+    new CMS.Views.Course(el: $('section.main-container')).render()
 
   replaceView: (view) ->
     @viewStack = [view]

cms/static/coffee/src/views/course.coffee

 class CMS.Views.Course extends Backbone.View
   initialize: ->
-    @$('#weeks > li').each (index, week) =>
-      new CMS.Views.Week el: week, height: @maxWeekHeight()
-
     CMS.on('content.show', @showContent)
     CMS.on('content.hide', @hideContent)
 
+  render: ->
+    @$('#weeks > li').each (index, week) =>
+      new CMS.Views.Week(el: week, height: @maxWeekHeight()).render()
+    return @
+
   showContent: (subview) =>
     $('body').addClass('content')
-    @$('.main-content').html(subview.el)
+    @$('.main-content').html(subview.render().el)
     @$('.cal').css height: @contentHeight()
     @$('>section').css minHeight: @contentHeight()
 

cms/static/coffee/src/views/week.coffee

@@ -3,15 +3,16 @@ class CMS.Views.Week extends Backbone.View
     'click .week-edit': 'edit'
 
   initialize: ->
+    CMS.on('content.show', @resetHeight)
+    CMS.on('content.hide', @setHeight)
+
+  render: ->
     @setHeight()
     @$('.editable').inlineEdit()
     @$('.editable-textarea').inlineEdit(control: 'textarea')
-
     @$('.modules .module').each ->
-      new CMS.Views.Module el: this
-
-    CMS.on('content.show', @resetHeight)
-    CMS.on('content.hide', @setHeight)
+      new CMS.Views.Module(el: this).render()
+    return @
 
   edit: =>
     CMS.replaceView(new CMS.Views.WeekEdit(model: new CMS.Models.Week(id: @$el.data('id'))))