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Rearrange & Filter Your Lesson Plans

Rearrange lessons and use filters to find exactly what you need in your planner. Stay organized, no matter how many classes you teach!

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Written by Jen Fenton
Updated over a month ago

Transcript

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Finding the Rearrange & Filter Button

So I'm just in one of my plan books, and here's the rearrange and filter button.

So give me a thumbs up if you have used this before.

No. Okay. So the rearrange and filter button, you're gonna find it in the different view. So right now, I'm on the week view. But if you go to the day view, you can also see it there.

Using the Rearrange & Filter Button

The month view has the rearrange and filter button. So does the unit timeline.

And then, of course, in your outline, you can pick, which classes you wanna see. So I'm gonna go back to the week view, and this is how I recommend using the rearrange and filter.

Hiding Classes for Focused Planning

For me, it's it would be more about decluttering my screen. Like, if I'm planning one class, I would only want to see that class. Or if you have, like, as a high school teacher, I had some classes that were pretty much the same. Like, here for this plan book, I have a period one, which is US history inclusion, and then also my period four and my period seven is also US history inclusion. So those classes most likely are going to have very similar lessons. Now there might be different accommodations and modifications just depending on what students are in there, and I might have to make those different.

But I'll probably wanna see all three of those when I'm planning those classes. So what I would do is hide these classes, and then I'm just going to select those because those are the ones that I'm planning.

And then if I close out of that, those are the only ones on my screen now.

It's just those US history inclusion classes.

So what I could do is Sorry, Jen.

Have a Could Jen, I missed that first detail.

How did you hide all the classes?

Yep. Okay. I'll show that again.

So sorry.

Yeah. No. That's fine. Okay. So rearrange and filter. And then originally, this is what it looks like.

So they're all showing, and you can click this right here. It says hide all classes. Yep.

Got it. Okay.

Click that, and then select the ones that you wanna show up, and then I'll just click back. So then, I have a lesson mostly planned here. Not everything's in here yet, but let's say that this whole lesson was planned and it was ready to go.

Then in the lesson menu, I could just hit that copy button, scroll right down to my period four, and I can paste it in. So there's my period four, and then all I have to do is just make edits probably to this box right here, the accommodations and modifications, because my students would be different in that class. And then for me, I always like to have a notes card, so I'll just throw whatever notes in there I needed to for that class. And then again, I could go down to my period seven and paste it right in there.

Planning Team Meetings

Okay. So then I could go back here, show all my classes again, and then maybe I want to plan, like, a team meeting. So when I was teaching, I'd have team meetings with my grade level team, and we'd talk about student progress and parent meetings we needed to have and when we were gonna have those meetings and all of those things. So I could hide all of my classes and then only have my team meeting show up. So then this is all I'm viewing, and then I can just start adding in my notes, and there isn't all those other distractions happening on the screen.

Rearranging Classes for Clarity

Okay. So I'm gonna go back to here. I'm gonna show all my classes again. You can also rearrange them. You can pick them up and move them around from here if there was ever a reason you needed to do that.

You can also line up your classes, which this is cool if you just want your screen to look more clean because, you know, some lessons might be really long, some might be short, and they're kind of all over the place. So if you click the line up, it goes out of here, all my morning to dos are lined up. Period one is lined up.

No matter how long or how short the lessons are, they're lined up.

So that's a good tip if this just makes more sense to you or looks cleaner to you.

Addressing Scrolling Issues

I know also right now, this is something we would love to fix, the scrolling buttons. So the buttons up here, to go back and to go forward, right now, they're only at the top of the screen. So if you're scrolling down to plan, we know that this is a problem that we need to get fixed. But right now, you have to scroll back back up to go to the next page.

But a workaround for that, at least right now, while we don't have a fix for it, is that, you know, you just hide your classes and only show the one you're working on. That way, you're not scrolling all the way down to the bottom and then back up to go back and forward.

Collapsing Classes for Manageability

Okay. I am going to turn the lineup classes off. The other thing that's really cool is collapse classes.

So you can click on this, and then everything collapses.

So this is another way of just making it look more manageable for you on your screen. If there's only certain lessons that you wanna see at the time, you can just expand and collapse those as needed.

Okay. Other ways to rearrange and filter what you see on your screen. And then if I want to make those not collapsed, I can just go up and hit that button.

Adjusting Class Order in Settings

But in your settings button, this is where you can go back to your classes and your schedule.

So here's all your classes, but you can also click on order.

And then this is where you can rearrange your classes if you need to. So if for some reason, your team meeting moves around, you can just move that to wherever you need it to go in your schedule. That way, you don't have to do it day by day.

It will just automatically update that for you for each week.

Turning Off Classes Not in Session

Some teachers, I know you're teaching by semesters, or quarters even, or maybe some classes you're teaching at certain weeks during the year and some you're not. So this is where you can come and turn those classes off if you're not teaching them anymore so they're not showing up on your screen.

So let's say if I want to take out my period four for the whole week, just take that off.

And then I'm gonna go back to my planning, and then you'll see that period four is no longer there.

Managing Planned Lessons When Turning Off Classes

Now if you do turn off a class but you had lessons planned, it's gonna give you this message here because we wanna make sure that you know you had a lesson there. And then you can decide what you want to do with it. If you wanted to erase it, or maybe you don't. Maybe you wanna leave it there because maybe it's a, semester class or something and you were just planning out further extra lessons or something and you just wanna leave it. That's fine.

Reactivating Classes

Okay. And then if you ever need to turn that class back on, again, you just go to your classes and schedule, go back to your order, and then you just turn that back on.

Okay. And then, again, like I said, these buttons are available in your day view and your other views.

So you can do all that in there too.

Alright. So that's the basics of the rearrange and filter.

I wanna know did you get that nice background?

Oh, yeah. Okay. So in your settings button, you can go to title and background, and then these are the

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