Moving Lesson Plans

Reorder your lesson plans to account for missed lessons or for content that needs further teaching.

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Written by Joshua George
Updated over a week ago

This article takes you through how to swap or move your lesson plans, in case you change the order of your lessons, miss a lesson because of a school trip or need to spend longer on a topic than you expected.

• Go to the Classes page, and choose the appropriate class you want to move lessons around for.
• Move over to the Lessons tab of the Class page
• You will now see running along the top the list of lessons for this class — past and upcoming.
• Clicking on the double-arrow 'Move Lesson Plan' icon (⬌) n the bottom-right of a lesson block will allow you to move it to another place in this list, changing the order of lessons.
• There are a few different options for moving lesson plans, so pick the one that reacts in the most appropriate way for your situation. The options are explained further down this article.

Top Tip:

In order to add a new, empty lesson into the next lesson block, to give yourself extra time for content or to account for a missed lesson, you need to use the Shunt movement. First you need to find the lesson you want to be opened up for different content, click on the 'Move Lesson Plan' icon, select the next lesson (to move everything up by 1), choose 'Shunt' and confirm.



Here are some more details on the three options for moving your lesson plans

Swap - This swaps the two lesson plans you have selected. If one of your lessons has not been planned yet, it will simply move the plan in to the unplanned lesson and leave the other lesson blank and ready to plan.

Cycle - This rearranges your lesson plans, by inserting the original lesson plan in to a new position and then moving all the lesson plans in between, either backwards or forwards, to fill the gap. This is useful is you decide to change the order you would like to do your lessons in.

Shunt - This moves all your lesson plans forward from the point that you move the original plan to, by shunting all the lessons from that point forward one lesson. A blank, unplanned lesson is inserted where the original lesson plan used to be. This can be useful if you want more time on a topic, or a school trip or fire drills means that your class misses a lesson.

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