Scheduling Class Lessons

Once you have created your Class, you can schedule lessons in the lessons tab.

Lessons

• This screen is controlled by the Week Start Date field, defaulting to the current week.

• Always check you are on the correct week before creating any Lessons.

• When you are on the correct (first) week of the set of lessons you wish to create, press “New Lesson”. This will open a dialogue box as follows:

• When to apply? - Choices here are:

  • Until a specific date - the lessons will start from the week selected in the screen and continue to the end date selected in the date picker

  • This Week Only - the lessons will be created for the week selected in the screen only

  • From Now On - the lessons will be created from the week selected in the screen to the End Date of the Class

  • Always - very rarely used - use with caution. This will create lessons from the Class Start Date through to the Class End Date - this may be fine if desired, but in many cases, this will retrospectively adjust lessons already created in the Class for previous weeks and can cause confusion.

  • Typically, always navigate to the starting week of the block of Lessons you wish to create and look forwards.

• Which week days? - Select the days of the week that the Lessons will be delivered

• Timetable Time - Select the time of the Lessons. If there are different times on different days, separate Classes will need to be created.

• Teacher - this list will check which teachers have not been assigned to any Lessons for the days/times selected, but this can be over-ridden by unticking the box

• Room - this list will check which rooms have not been assigned to any Lessons for the days/times selected, but this can be over-ridden by unticking the box

• Press Save when ready and the Lessons will be created.

  • This Class will now show in the Classing screen ready to place students in.

Making Lesson Changes

• It is possible to create the Lessons without selecting the Room or Teacher, as this may not be known at point of creation.

• It is possible to edit individual Lessons by clicking on the Edit link on the left hand side of each line, or multi-select and use the “Edit Selected Lessons” button to make changes.

• The same rules apply with regards to This Week Only, From Now On etc, as outlined above.

• Be careful to make sure you are editing the correct week and for the correct period.

You can change the Week Start Date to any date, and make changes from that date typically, forward.