Add a unit on the Year timeline
Open Year and add a unit to a class. Give it a title and a date range; the band you draw covers the dates that class actually meets, so the unit is scheduled in teaching days rather than calendar days.
Open the unit workspace
Select the unit and choose Open unit. The workspace holds the overview, guiding questions, objectives, key topics, assessment and notes, all editable in place.
Write the thinking down first
Guiding questions and objectives are worth writing before the lessons. They are what the lessons have to answer, and they stay visible beside the lesson list while you plan.
Add the lessons
Use New lesson to plan one on the next unplanned meeting inside the unit, or Add existing to pull in a lesson you have already planned. Adding an existing lesson moves it into the unit — it is the same lesson, not a copy.
Put them in teaching order
Move a lesson up or down with the arrows. The order you set is the order the unit shows, and lessons you have not ordered fall back to the date they are taught.
Reuse the unit next year
Duplicate unit makes a copy that keeps the planning content and drops the dates, ready to schedule fresh against next year’s timetable.
- Does adding an existing lesson to a unit copy it?
- No. It moves the same lesson into the unit, so there is only ever one record and one place to edit it.
- What does duplicating a unit bring across?
- The planning content — overview, guiding questions, objectives, key topics and assessment. The dates are dropped so you schedule it fresh.