How to Make Standards Tracking Easy with Common Planner’s Standards Tracker

Tracking standards all year can get messy, especially if your lessons change, you teach multiple classes, or your standards live in a separate spreadsheet. Common Planner’s Standards Tracker makes it easier to see which standards you’ve taught, how often you’ve taught them, and which ones you still need to cover — all from the lessons already in your planbook.

Why Standards Tracking Gets Messy

If you’ve ever gotten to March or May and thought, “Wait… have I actually taught that standard yet?” you’re not alone. Even when your lessons are planned well, standards coverage is hard to keep track of in your head.

That’s what the Standards Tracker in Common Planner is for. It connects your standards to the lessons in your planbook so you can quickly see what you’ve covered, how many times you’ve covered it, where it showed up, and what you still haven’t taught yet.

What You’ll Learn

• Where to find the Standards Tracker
• How to choose the class or classes you want to track
• How to choose a standards set
• How to see standards coverage by lesson and date
• How to filter for standards you haven’t covered yet
• How to print or share Standards Tracker reports

Step 1: Open the Standards Tracker

Open Standards Tracker from your nav bar. That will take you to the tracker page.

Step 2: Select The Class Or Classes You Want To Track

On the left, you’ll see the courses and classes in your planbook. Any selected class will be highlighted blue.

Select one class if you want to focus on a single section, choose a few classes, or select everything if you want to look across your full planbook.

Step 3: Select The Standards Set

Below your courses, you’ll see the standards sets you’ve used in your planbook. If you only teach one subject, you may only see one set. If you teach multiple subjects or use multiple standards sets, you’ll see more options.

Just like classes, the standards set you select will be highlighted blue. The tracker will show coverage for whatever is selected.

Step 4: Read Your Standards Coverage

Once you’ve selected a class and standards set, the tracker gives you a standards map based on your actual lessons.

You’ll see standards on the left and coverage details on the right. For each standard, you can see how many times it was used and which lessons it appeared in, including the lesson dates.

So if a standard was used in 8 lessons, you’ll see that count and the list of lessons connected to it.

Step 5: Click Into A Lesson

You can click any listed lesson to see what you actually taught when that standard was used.

This is helpful when you want to plan a spiral review, reuse part of an older lesson, or check what students already did before you build the next lesson.

Step 6: Filter For Standards You Haven’t Covered Yet

If you want to see only the standards you still need to teach, turn on hide standards that have been covered.

The list will update to show standards with zero usage. When you want to see everything again, turn the filter off.

When This Is Helpful

The Standards Tracker is especially useful when you’re doing a mid-year check-in, planning the next unit, checking what you missed near the end of the year, or answering the question, “When did I teach this?”

It is also easy to print a Standards Tracker report or send the link to an admin or colleague who needs to see it. That way, you are not creating a separate document just to show what you’ve covered.

It is also much easier than trying to piece together standards coverage from separate docs, spreadsheets, or an old curriculum mapping template.

FAQ

How Do I Track Standards In Common Planner?

Use the Standards Tracker to select a class and standards set, then view which standards have been used in your lessons.

Can I See Which Standards I Haven’t Covered Yet?

Yes. You can filter the Standards Tracker to show standards with zero usage so you can quickly see what still needs to be taught.

Can I Share Standards Coverage With An Admin Or Colleague?

Yes. You can print a Standards Tracker report or send a link to someone who needs to review your standards coverage.

Wrap-Up

You shouldn’t have to hunt through old lesson plans to figure out what standards you’ve covered. Common Planner’s Standards Tracker gives you a clear view of what you’ve taught, when you taught it, and what still needs attention.