Schedule Curriculum

From Curriculum Admin, the Schedule Curriculum page allows permits district curriculum administrators to schedule curriculum and its components, including curricular unitThe largest "building blocks" of a curriculum., instructional unitThe generic name for educational material type that can be a “building block” of a curricular unit or stand alone as a thematic unit. Instructional units can cover a specific unit of time or content. and lesson planA designed teaching approach to a specific portion (e.g., Understanding Quadratic Equations, Causes of WWII, etc.) of a complete curriculum.. The scheduling of curriculum components can only be performed once they are linked to a curriculum. This tool permits scheduling onto calendars for teachers in their school districts who are assigned to the courses/subjects mapped to the curricula. Scheduling curriculum includes curricula that has been created by a single-district or the state as a multiple-district solution.

• For state-wide multi-district solutions, state-created curriculum is available to school districts across the state.
• District administrators using a state-wide school district solution can map state-created curriculum and district-created curriculum to courses in their school district.
• District administrators in a multi-district solution can map district-created curriculum to courses in their school district.
• District administrators schedule curriculum on the calendars for teachers who are associated with the courses to which the curriculum is mapped.
• Teachers associated with the mapped courses view the curriculum on their Lesson Planner calendar.

By default, this area displays the calendar in year view. To view scheduling by month, drill down into a set of scheduled curricula until the green instructional units are visible. Doing this automatically changes the calendar to month view.

There are several key features on the Schedule Curriculum page.

• Search: To search among the available curricula, use the search tools to refine by keyword, grade, and/or subject. The Keyword box searches the titles of curricula, not individual curricular units.
• Curriculum list: A complete list of sets of curricular units, organized by course. Click the arrow on the bottom to scroll down to see more.
• School year calendar: Shows the complete school year for planning purposes. Non school days are shaded dark gray.
• Recycle icon: The green recycle icon indicates that a curriculum had been scheduled from the previous school year.
• Unschedule curriculum: Place your cursor on the calendar over the curriculum you would like to unschedule. The days that curriculum covers will be shaded dark orange, and an “x” appears on the last scheduled day. Click the “x” to remove the curriculum from the calendar. If there are curricula scheduled after the one that is being removed, a prompt displays asking whether they should be moved up or remain on the same dates.
• Unschedule all: On the sidebar under the curriculum name to remove all curricula for a selected course.
• Curriculum details: Click the name of a curriculum on the sidebar to view a popup with the unit’s properties, content, and linked materials (instructional units and lesson plans).
• Curriculum hierarchy: Click to expand the instructional units contained within the curricular unit. Expanding curriculum to view Instructional Units changes the calendar to month view and displays instructional unit detail. Instructional Units may be moved, duration changes, and removed from the monthly calendar view.
• Instructional unit details: Click the name of an instructional unit from the expanded sidebar to view the instructional unit’s properties.

Publish Curriculum

Locate the curriculum from Available Curriculum or use search to filter the list. District administrators publish curriculum on teachers' Lesson Planners for courses that have been mapped to the curriculum.

For school districts that are a part of a state-wide implementation, state-created curriculum is only published to the districts' calendars for school districts with courses that are mapped to the curriculum.

To publish curriculum

1. Go to Curriculum Admin > Schedule Curriculum.
2. Click the status (Scheduled, Unscheduled, Published) next to the curriculum you would like to schedule in the left panel. You may also click on the curriculum name to view details.
3. Optional: Check Include all materials when scheduling to include all aligned Instructional Units and Lesson Plans on teachers' lesson planners.
4. Optional: Update the order of the components that are linked to district-created curriculum before publishing to the district calendar. To change the order, select a material and drag it to another position within the listed components. This option is not available when scheduling state-created curriculum.
5. Drag the curriculum you would like to schedule onto the calendar day you would like it to begin. To move it, simply drag the icon to a new location.
6. Optional: To lengthen or shorten the unit, click and drag the solid gray bars at the beginning or end of the orange curricular block. A message displays notifying you shortening the duration will reduce the span of embedded materials.
7. Click Publish or Update. A message will display saying the publish or update is running as a background task, and you are welcome to continue using other pages. This message and a message in the top notification area of Schoolnet will notify you when the schedule or update has completed. All teachers who are assigned to the applicable course will now have the option in the Alerts section of their Lesson Planner to accept this new schedule on their calendar. If a curriculum is being reused from a previous year it will display the recycle icon. Clicking on Schedule will add it to the calendar just as it was in previous years (however, minor date changes are required). Adjust the curriculum as needed and click Publish.

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