Creating Lessons

This program will allow teachers to create and view lesson plans for each course.

Video

Create New Lesson video

Quick Guide

Teacher Quick Guide

How-to

On the left, click on Grades, then under the heading Entry, click on Lesson Book.

NOTE: If Grading Period Lock has your grading period(s) locked, then you will not be able to make changes in your Lesson Book.

New - To make a new lesson plan, click New on menu bar at the top.

In the New Lesson window, place a check by Share Lesson, if you want to allow your lessons to be shared among other teachers.

Select the course for which to create the new lesson.

Enter the title of the lesson. All titles should be uniquely named within the same section or an appendage of -1 will be added to the end of the new title.

Do not display in gradebook will be checked by default. Only uncheck this box if the lesson plan is going to be an assignment that will be graded. This will un-gray the area at the bottom of the window so that assignment information can be added.

Plan Start Date: must be the first day the lesson will be taught.

Plan End Date: must be the last day the lesson will be taught.

If the course has curriculum units and GLE's:

• Click in the field to the right of "Curriculum Unit:" and select the Unit to be taught with the lesson.

• Click "OK".

• A list of activities that go along with the unit will appear after clicking ok. Select the activities to be taught with the lesson.

• Click "OK".

• A list of GLE's associated with the Unit will appear. Select the GLE's to be taught with the lesson.

• At the bottom of GLE selection page is two options. Simply click "OK" to move to the next area or click Append To Objectives to append the GLE's selected to the Objectives area.

If the course selected uses the Common Core:

• Click in the Core Standards field and a list of Content Areas (English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies) will appear on the left of the screen. At this time there are standards only for English Language Arts and Mathematics. Science and Social Studies will be added as they become available.

• At the bottom left of the screen will be a grade level. The default value will be the grade level of the course. The set of standards to be displayed will be based on this value. The grade level can be changed by clicking on the drop down arrow.

• Each Content Area is further divided into one or more Domains.

• Each Domain has one or more Clusters. After selecting a Cluster, the standards will be listed on the right side of the screen with a light brown background color.

• To select a standard, click the green plus sign at the top left corner of the standard. The background color will change to a blue background and the green plus sign will change to a red X.

• The selected standard(s) will appear at the bottom of the screen.

• To unselect a standard, click the red X. The background color will return to the original light brown and the red X will be replaced with the original green plus sign.

• To save the selected standards, click the Submit button at the bottom right of the window.

• The standards selection window goes away. The Lesson window will be on the screen with the selected standards listed in the Core Standards field.

In the Prerequisites area, list the topics that are needed prior to teaching the new lesson.

In the text field to the right of Objective, fill in the objectives of the lesson.

A unique Template for your district can be designed by an administrator using the 700 access. Simply copy and paste your information into the text area, name the template and save.

To the right of Lesson, fill in the lesson information.

Make note of any homework given in the field to the right of Homework.

If any students have special needs, fill in that information to the right of Modifications.

Click in the field to the right of Instructional Methods. A box will appear listing the different types of instructional methods. Select all that are appropriate and click "OK".

Click in the field to the right of Eval/Assessment. A box will appear listing the different types of evaluation and assessment methods. Select all that are appropriate and click "OK".

If all information is correct, click on "Save". If you would like to copy this lesson plan/assignment to other sections, click on "Copy" at the top of the screen, then choose the sections where you want to copy the sections to.

Print

Click the Print button at the top of the screen. This button will print the whole week of lesson plans.

Clicking on the lesson plan will also present a print choice but will only print that one lesson.

A print preview window will appear.

To get the print icon on this window, hover the mouse in the bottom right area of the preview. A grey rectangle will appear with several icons.

Click the print icon at the right end of this rectangle. Another print preview will appear.

Click the print button at the top left to print the report. Close the print preview.

Tools

• Show Me

Lessons-will show the lessons for the week along with the status

Assignments-will show the assignments for the lesson

Accepted Lessons-will show if the lesson is accepted with a green header

Submitted Lessons-will show if the lesson has been submitted with a gray header

Rejected Lessons-will show if the lesson has been rejected with a red header

• Copy Lessons-click on Copy Lessons and a "Copy from ..." section box will appear with all of the teacher`s lesson plans from all courses.

Click next and a Lessons and Assignments box appears with the lessons that were selected to copy. This should have the Title, Plan start Date, Plan End Date, Terms, and Section.

Click next-a Copy Lesson box will appear. The user may place a check in the box to the right of Create lesson per day or leave unchecked for only one day to copy. Click under the lesson to Copy to Section. The lesson will appear on the date the user selected.

• A Pop up list will appear with several selections, select Quick Copy. A Copy List will appear.
• Click on the line under Copy to Section At this point you can change the Plan Start Date and the Plan End Date by clicking on them and selecting the date from the calendar.
• A choose sections to copy to box will populate. Select Quick Copy and a Copy Lesson box populates. At this point click under the Copy to Section. A Choose sections to copy to will populate. Make your selection to copy to by clicking in the square to the left of the course. Click OK.
• Select Copy at the bottom of the page to copy your lesson. A Warning box pops up that warns you about what you are going to do.

• There are three selections: Copy, Move, and Cancel. Copy is to copy a lesson(s), Move is to move a lesson to another date, and Cancel is to cancel this process.

• Lesson Plans with Comments - Click on Lesson Plans with Comments and a box will appear. In the setup box, you can change the dates to see the comments written about each lesson within a specific date range.This will show you the teacher name, section #, section (course) name, lesson plan name, a sign off time stamp and the comment written about the lesson plan. This may also be printed by clicking on the print button at the bottom of the page.

Search searches for lessons containing specific characters or words from previous lesson(s). Once the lesson appears, click in the check box and click on the icon Quick Copy to begin the process of quickly copying the lesson selected from the list located below the icons.

Submit all of the lessons for the week so that an administrator can approve or reject.

Share will allow you to see and share lesson plans from other teachers. This is only available if the other teachers have checked Share Lesson in their Lesson Book. Check the lesson(s) that you want to import and then select Import. Now choose which of your section(s) you want to add the lesson. Click under Section, and then check off your sections. Click OK on the section selection box and OK on the Lessons to Import box. Answer the question about if you want to continue. If OK is the reply, then you will see the Import Successful box.

• Day is chosen the calendar located on the left side of the screen under the icons will show daily lessons. The arrow or calendar will change the date by the day each time it is clicked.
• Week is chosen from the calendar located on the left side of the screen under the icons will show weekly lessons. The arrow or calendar will change the date by the week each time the arrow is clicked or the calendar is changed by the user.
• Month is chosen from the calendar located on the left side of the screen under the icons will show monthly lessons. The arrow or calendar will change the date by the month each time the arrow is clicked or the calendar is changed by the user.

Once a user has completed all of their lesson plans for the period of time required by the administration, click the Submit button at the top of the page. You can also Submit one lesson plan at a time by left clicking on the lesson plan, and then choosing "Submit" from the options. You can also edit, print, see a summary, quick copy, show comment or delete individual lesson plans.

Color Codes for Lesson(s)

• White-Unsubmitted lesson(s)
• Gray-Submitted lesson(s)
• Red-Rejected lesson(s)
• Green-Accepted lesson(s)

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