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Lesson Planner Schedule Materials

The side panel of the Lesson Planner provides teachers and administrators the ability to locate and schedule existing materials from multiple content repositories directly on a private or sectionAn instance of a course. For example, Ms. DeYoung’s 3rd period Algebra II class is a Section. calendars.

You can quickly make changes to the during of materials that have been scheduled on your calendar. Simply drag the gray bars on either side of the item to adjust the start and end dates of the material.

ClosedTo schedule materials
  1. Go to Classroom > Lesson Planner.
  2. Click the Schedule Materials icon. Scheduling materials includes curriculum that has been created by a single-district or multiple-district solution, including state-wide implementations. Once district administrators publish materials that have been created by the District, Region (if applicable), and State (if applicable), the materials are available for scheduling.
  3. Select the materials tab from which you would like to locate and schedule materials:
    • My Materials to schedule materials that are saved to your private materials bank. Filter by material types including external resources for school districts that subscribe to other content providers.
    • Available Curriculum to schedule available state-created and district -created curriculum that has been published by the school district.
    • Material Banks to schedule materials from all public banks including District/Local and other content providers that your school district may subscribe to such as Discovery Education and SAS Curriculum Pathways.
  4. Optional: Choose additional filter options to narrow material results including Select a Grade, Select a Subject, All Banks (select materials from all public banks) or Type Keyword.
  5. Click Search. A list of materials matching the selected filters includes result counts for each material type.

    6. When changing material banks, click Search to reset previously set filters and refresh search results.

  6. Optional: Select Filter By options to limit the results by specific material types. The available filters are dependent upon the materials bank from which you are searching. This option is not available when searching for non-District/Local materials.
  7. To place the material on your calendar, drag the material to location on your planner.
  8. To unschedule materials, go to the material title, and click Delete Material.
ClosedTo understand calendar prompts:

The duration for higher level instructional materialsThe building blocks (e.g., lessons, instructional units, resources, etc.) that comprise a curricular unit. may be longer than the linked materials that are associated to it. However, the summary of all linked materials cannot exceed the duration for the higher level material. When making changes to duration, the calendar will prompt you to make choices about how you would like new items to be scheduled. See the table below for possible calendar prompt options and resolutions.

Situation

Prompt

Resolution

You want to unschedule a curricular unit that has other curricular units occurring after it

What do you want to do after unscheduling this curricular unit?

  • Move the subsequent curricular unit(s) up.
  • Do not change the scheduled dates of subsequent curricular unit(s).
Choose the appropriate radio button and click Save. Click Cancel to keep the original curricular unit on the calendar.

You want to extend the duration of a curricular unit outside the current school year

Increasing the duration will push the curricular unit outside the current school year

Click Yes to allow and No to undo.

Changing the duration of the 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. makes it longer than its curricular unit
Changing the duration of the instructional unit makes it longer than its curricular unit
Click Yes to increase, or No to cancel the instructional unit’s duration change.
Changing the duration of a lesson plan makes it longer than its instructional unit
The lesson plan durations exceed that of the instructional unit. Would you like to increase the duration of the instructional unit?
Click Yes to increase, or No to cancel the lesson plan’s duration change.
Changing the duration of the instructional unit makes it overlap with another instructional unit
Changing the duration of this instructional unit will make it overlap with other instructional unit(s). What do you want to do?
Choose the appropriate radio button and click Save. Click Cancel to maintain original instructional unit duration.
Changing the duration of a lesson plan makes it overlap with another lesson plan

Changing the duration of this lesson plan will make it overlap with other lesson plan(s). What do you want to do?

  • Move the lesson plan to this day, and do not change the schedule dates of the currently schedule lesson plan(s).
  • Move the lesson plan to this day, and move the currently scheduled lesson plan(s) down.
Choose the appropriate radio button and click Save. Click Cancel to maintain original lesson plan duration.
Changing the duration of an external material makes it overlap with another material type.
The duration of this external resource overlaps with other scheduled materials.

N/A

You attempt to make the instructional unit duration shorter than the cumulative duration of the associated lesson plans

The instructional unit duration must span the length of all embedded lesson plan durations

N/A

You attempt to schedule more than three instructional units at the same time
No more than three instructional units may be scheduled at the same time

N/A

You attempt to schedule more than three lesson plans at the same time
No more than three lesson plans may be scheduled at the same time

N/A

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