Set your school year
In Settings, set the school year start and end, then add holidays and non-teaching days. Everything else in the planner is built on the dates you set here, so it is worth getting right first.
Add your classes
On the Classes page, add each class with its subject, grade and the meetings it has — day, period, start and end time, and room. A class that meets three times a week gets three meetings. A double period is one meeting spanning two periods.
Look at Week to check the timetable
The Week view shows your real timetable, period by period. If a class is on the wrong day or period, fix it on the Classes page and the whole planner follows.
Plan a lesson
Open Lessons, choose a class, and every date it meets is listed by month. Pick a day and write the plan — a learning objective, a timed outline, materials. Clicking a section turns it into an editable box; clicking away returns it to a clean printed plan.
Learn the four views
Today is the teaching day in front of you. Week is the timetable. Year shows units across the dates each class meets. Lessons is one class at a time, every date it meets, with the plan beside it.
- Do I have to enter my whole timetable before I can plan?
- You need at least one class with one meeting. Everything else can be added as you go, and lessons follow the timetable from then on.
- What happens on a holiday or a non-teaching day?
- Days you mark as holidays or non-teaching days stop being planning dates, so lessons land on the days you actually teach.