Creating Lessons

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

Video

Creating Lessons in Lesson Book video

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

Time of Day

The times of the lessons displayed in the teacher`s lesson book are controlled by the bell schedule created in Bell Schedule Maintenance.

If there is not a bell schedule, then it would look at the calendar in the Calendar Editor and use the start/end time and just develop a schedule from there.

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.

Create Lesson Per Day - With this option checked, if the Plan Start Date and the Plan End Date cover a range of days, the lesson plan will be unique per day within the date range.

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 - This option is available in both Gradebook and Lesson Book.

• Check the box if the assignment is only a lesson plan and needs not be displayed in the gradebook. The default is to be checked.
• Uncheck this box only if the lesson plan is also going to be a graded assignment that will display in the gradebook as well as Lesson Book. This will un-gray the area at the bottom of the window so that assignment information can be added. Also, this will make the Lesson Plan/Assignment orange in the Lesson Plan window unless the "Assignments" under "Tools" → "Show Me" is unchecked.

Plan Start Date: defaults to the Monday beginning the week of the assignment. Non-instructional days will not be included in the days of the assignment. Note: If you create, edit, copy or import a lesson plan for a day outside this week, you will receive a pop up message.

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

Note: You can create a lesson plan for the next school year while in the current year. But, to view the next year lesson plan, you must go back to the set up box and change to the following school year. There must be a sponsor site, calendar and Master Schedule Editor created and students for the following school year. You can not make a lesson plan span from school year to the next school year.

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. Go to Tools, choose Create/Edit Template, then simply type or 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.

NOTE: The name of the course will display in bold print for the daily lesson plan and for the weekly plans.

Also, if there are attachments, there will be a paper clip icon to the left of the Course Name.

• 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 right clicking on the lesson plan, and then choosing "Submit" from the options. You will notice that the headers of each lesson change to a gray color indicating a submitted status. The right click menu also allows you to edit, print, see a summary, quick copy, show comment or delete individual lesson plans.

Note: If a lesson is changed after clicking "Submit", the status of the lesson will revert back to a color of white, indicating "Unsubmitted" status. Be sure to re-submit the changed lesson by clicking the "Submit" button again.

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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