Planner Overview

This tool is available as part of the Campus Learning premium offering.

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This article describes the Settings that control the appearance of the Planner and the To Do List, with separate articles describing the Schedule view and Curriculum view.

The School Calendar or the To Do List or both can be minimized to increase the space of the schedule.

Screenshot of the Planner, highlighting the School Calendar and To Do List panels at the right.Use the available options to determine what displays in your Planner.


Tool rights to the Planner grant full access to this tool. 

Any Day Events entered for the school appear in your calendar, such as holidays.

Screenshot showing how a holiday displays in the Planner, grey with no sections shown.

Day Events in the Planner

Calendar Options

The calendar options in the header appear above both views of the planner.

Screenshot highlighting the navigation options at the top of the calendar. 

Calendar Header in the Planner

When in week view, the week of the school year displays at the top of the calendar. The day of the school year also displays for each day.

In the top right of the calendar, you can change the view to Month, Week, or a single Day. Use the arrows at the left to advance or go back from your current view.

Click the calendar icon to select a specific day to view. Click Today to return to the current day from wherever you are.

Planner Settings

The planner Settings allow you to choose the color and sequence of each course in your schedule, as well as display preferences for how the schedule appears and curriculum preferences.

Screenshot highlighting the Settings button at the top of the planner and showing the Settings options.  Planner Settings

Sequence selections apply to Week View and/or Day View. Sequence fields for each section display when a setting is marked.

Screenshot of the Course Colors and Sequences section of the Planner Settings. 

Enter sequence numbers for each section. 

Color choices apply to each course, so multiple sections of the same course are the same color.

The Display Preference logic is as follows:

Option

Logic

Show EMPTY periods in schedule view Marking this preferences displays all periods you don't have a section to the default color. Change color as desired.
Show Saturday/Sunday Marking this preference adds Saturday and Sunday to the week view.
Work day start time Select the default earliest time that should appear in the schedule.

The Curriculum Preferences logic is as follows:

Option Description
Allow the selected sections to be visible to other users Marking a section makes it available for other teachers to add to their Other Curriculum view.

School Calendar Selection

Each year and calendar that you have rights to display in the School Calendar list. Select which schedule you'd like to view. Select All My Schools to view all of your sections across schools. If you have sections in multiple schools, you may want to choose a different color scheme in Settings for each school (such as light and dark, warm and cold, etc).

Screenshot highlighting the School Calendar section to the right of the Planner. 

Multiple Schools in the Schedule

To Do List

The To Do List allows you to list tasks you'd like to remember and mark them off as you complete them.

Two-part screenshot showing the To Do List with two tasks and how tasks look once completed.

To Do Lists, Current and Completed

To add items, click Add Task, enter the reminder and hit Enter.

Once you've completed a task, mark the checkbox to move the task to the Completed list. To move a task back to the active list, mark the checkbox for the task in the Completed tab. Click Clear Completed to remove all completed items from that list.

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