Lesson Planner Admin Tools

Overview

The Lesson Planner > Setup > Admin Tools screen offers a variety of configuration options to control functionality of the Lesson Planner within your school. This screen can be setup differently for each building.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Overview
• Transfer of Lesson Books to a Different Teacher
• Admin Mode Settings
• General Settings
• Lesson Plan Review Settings
• Lesson Plan Mapping Settings
• Accommodation Settings

Transfer of Lesson Books to a Different Teacher

In Step 1, select the name of the User whose Lesson Books you wish to move. Users will only show up on this list if they possess Lesson Books in the school you are in.

In Step 2, press Select Lesson Books and check off which book(s) should be included in the transfer.

In Step 3, select the User for whom you wish to move the Lesson Books to.

Lastly, press Move the Lesson Books to move forward with the transfer.

When finished, the User selected in Step 2 will now own all the Lesson Books previously owned by the User selected in Step 1 (for this school). The original teacher will no longer have any of the transferred Lesson Books under their account.

For teachers in multiple schools: If there are additional Lesson Books in other schools that need to be transferred as well, you must repeat the process above for the other school(s) the teacher works in.

Admin Mode Settings

If you place the Lesson Planner in Admin Mode then only system administrators (users with the 'sysadmin' role) and users with access to the lessonplanner.admin location can view and access the Lesson Planner.

This is useful during times like the Summer, when administrators can freely work on the setup before allowing teachers to use the Lesson Planner.

You can optionally update the text in the 'Admin Mode' Message to Users box to leave a message for teaching staff to see when they go to the Lesson Planner module when Admin Mode is enabled.

Remember to disable Admin Mode by unchecking Lesson Planner is in 'Admin Mode' once you are ready to allow users to access the Lesson Planner again.

General Settings

Check off Allow Lesson Planner to automatically create books so that the teachers' Lesson Books are immediately created, as soon as they first visit the Lesson Planner module (Recommended).

Check off Allow advanced formatting for Lesson fields to allow teachers to use formatting options such as bold, underline, bullet points, hyperlinks, etc (Recommended). 

When copying lessons, always remove Standards that are no longer in use:  This option prevents 'old' teaching standards from showing on Lessons. Standards no longer being used may have the Display box unchecked within the Standards module. If a teacher copies a previous lesson that contains a standard no longer in use, this option will automatically remove the old standards during that copy process.

Default "When copying lesson, always use your book's default lesson template" to: This option allows you to set a default for this field on the teachers' Lesson Planner > Setup > Preferences screens, where they can set personal preferences for some of the functionality of their Lesson Planner. Click Here for information on that screen.

Allow teachers to create Class Messages: If this option is enabled, teachers can create Course Links and Class Messages for the Family Calendar directly from Lesson Planner, while they are writing Lesson Plans. Click Here for more information on this feature.

Lesson Plan Review Settings

Check off Allow teachers to post notes to Reviewer in order to allow teachers to write annotations as they "Post" their Lesson Plans for review. Teachers will get a single comment box per each Lesson Book that is being posted. See Posting Lesson Plans for more information. 

Enable Display 'Changes Required' field for Reviewers to allow the Lesson Plan Reviewers to use the Changes Required indicator, as opposed to Review Complete when posting a review to a Lesson Book. Both options will trigger an alert for the teacher that one of their Lesson Books has a review posted. If the 'Changes Required' option was used, this will prompt the teacher to make revisions to their lesson plans, and then 'Resubmit' their Lesson Plans. See Lesson Planner Trainings for more information.

Enable Attach Weekly Review Report as Email Attachment to allow teachers to receive an attachment via e-mail whenever an administrator posts a review to the teacher's Lesson Plans. As soon as the review is posted, it will trigger an e-mail alert to that teacher with the attached review of their submitted Lessons. Without this option enabled, the attachment can still be  obtained from within the teacher's Lesson Planner. The review report includes all comments made by the reviewer, about each Lesson Plan, or overall.

Enable Display books not attached to courses when searching for plans 'not submitted' in order to display ALL lesson books that are "Not Submitted" when searching on the Lesson Planner > Review Plans screen. By default, lesson books that are NOT attached to courses will not display when viewing books that have NOT been submitted.

Lesson Plan Mapping Settings

These settings will control aspects of the Curriculum Mapping feature, located in the Lesson Planner > Mapping screens. Click Here for more information on the mapping feature. 

Check off Automatically push units and lessons from Mappings to Courses to enable the curriculum mapping feature.

With this option enabled, any setup you have done for your courses via the Mapping tab will be copied automatically to any teachers scheduled into those courses. Note: This only occurs upon creation of the Lesson Book (when it's the teacher's first time opening a Lesson Book). If the Mapping has been setup or enabled after teacher's first time opening the Lesson Book, they can still insert from the curriculum's bank of units via Lesson Planner > Lesson Books > Unit Plans.
Mapping Available in School Year: Used to prevent Mapping from being used in other school years.

Schools to include in Mapping with [current school]:  This option allows the Curriculum Mapping setup to apply to multiple other buildings, in addition to the one currently listed which has the Lesson Planner > Mapping screen configured. 

This is useful for districts that have multiple schools that share the same curriculum and want to use the same Curriculum Mapping, rather than maintaining separate list of Curriculum Mapping for each building. The course codes must match exactly in both schools in order for the mapping to go from one to school to the other. Two of the same course codes must also be treated the same.

Accommodation Settings

These settings allow teachers to select Accommodations from a bank of choices, and easily copy and paste them into their Lesson Plans.  You can select up to 7 different codes tables to populate these options with, based on sets of 'codes' added to the Setup>Codes screen.  Here are several examples of how this can be used:

Please refer to the following articles for information on setting up Accommodations for use in Lesson Planner:

- Setting Up Accommodations

- Adding a Codes Table