Creating and Managing Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans are templated learning activities that can guide both teachers and students in the structure and sequencing of a lesson. Lesson Plans can be added to Projects, Units or Class Pages. 

Lesson Plans can only be built using the Course Builder component on a Unit Page or by using the Course Outline component on a Homepage. Lesson Plans can be shown through the use of the Course Outline on a Homepage.

On this page, you will find the following information:

• Create a Lesson Plan Template (for Superusers)
• Manage a Lesson Plan Template (for Superusers)
• Create a Lesson Plan on a Unit Page (for school staff)
• Create or modify a Lesson Plan on a Class Page (for school staff)
• Change the location of a Lesson Plan (for school staff)
• Link Activities to a Lesson Plan (for school staff)

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As a Superuser, you can create Lesson Plan templates to help your school staff create Lesson Plans. School staff must have at least one Lesson Plan Template to begin creating Lesson Plans.

NOTE: If you as a school staff need to create a lesson plan template, you must contact your school’s Superuser. To help you with the initial set-up of templates, several pre-populated templates are available for you to modify/preview.

To create a lesson plan template:

1. In Schoolbox, go to Administration > LMS > Lesson Plan Templates.
   The Lesson Plan Template List page appears.
    
2. Select the icon in the top right-hand corner. 
    
3. Enter a title for your Lesson Plan template.
    
4. In Fields, enter the field title.
    
5. Select the Field visible to students checkbox if you want this content to be available to students when they view the lesson plan.
    
6. In Body, use the Text Editor to add any content that will appear when using this template to create a Lesson Plan.
    
7. Select + Add a new field and repeat steps 4-6 to create additional fields for the Lesson Plan Template.
   NOTE: To delete any field, select the icon. A Lesson Plan must include at least one field.
    
8. When done, select Save.
   You’ve now created a lesson plan template for your school staff to use.
    

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• Manage a Lesson Plan Template (for Superusers)

Superusers can manage Lesson Plan Templates in a school. If you as a school staff want to modify a lesson plan template, you must contact your school’s Superuser to do this for you.

For a Superuser to manage a Lesson Plan Template:

1. In Schoolbox, go to Administration > LMS > Lesson Plan Templates.
   The Lesson Plan Template List page appears.
   
   Note - You can select the template name to preview the details of the Lesson Plan template. Then, select the icon to close it.
    
2. Next, select the icon to edit a Lesson Plan Template.
    
3. When done, select Save.

Notes - 

• To disable the Lesson Plan Template's visibility for school staff, select the 3-dot menu icon for each template and then select Disable visibility.
• To delete a Lesson Plan Template, select the 3-dot menu icon for each template and then select Delete template.

Related link:

• Create a Lesson Plan Template (for Superusers) 

A Superuser creates Lesson Plan Templates to help school staff create Lesson Plans. If there are no lesson plan templates available, school staff must contact the school’s Superuser.

To create a Lesson Plan on a Unit Page:

1. Go to the Unit for which you want to create a Lesson Plan.
    
2. Then, go to the Course Builder component.
    
3. Select Create Activity.
    
4. Select Lesson Plan.
    
5. Next, select the template's name to preview it.
    
6. When you’ve decided on the template, select Use template.
   The Create Lesson Plan page appears.
   
   Note - To use a Lesson Plan Template without previewing it, select the arrow icon next to the template. This opens the Create Lesson Plan page.
    
7. Enter a title for your Lesson Plan.
    
8. Then, add content to each field of the Lesson Plan.
    
9. Attach files if required.
    
10. To make the Lesson Plan visible to students, toggle the setting to ON.
    
    Note - Only fields that you selected as visible to students on the template will be made visible.
     
11. Add Curriculum Codes if required.
     
12. When done, select Create.
    You’ve now created a Lesson Plan on a Unit Page. 
     

Up next:

• Create or modify a Lesson Plan on a Class Page (for school staff)
   

Related links:

• Change the location of a Lesson Plan (for school staff)
• Link Activities to a Lesson Plan (for school staff)

As a school staff, you can create or modify a Lesson Plan on a Class page.

To do this:

1. Go to the appropriate Class Page.
    
2. Then, go to the Course Outline component.
    
3. Select the 3-dotmenu icon and select Lesson Plan next to the unit to which you are adding the Learning Activity.
   Alternatively, you can select the 3-dotmenu icon next to the Lesson Plan you wish to modify.
   
   Note - To preview a Lesson Plan Template, select the eye icon. To select a Lesson Plan Template to use, select the name of the template.
    
4. Enter the title of the Lesson Plan.
    
5. Next, use the text editor under each field title to add content to the lesson plan.
    
6. Attach files if required.
    
7. To make the Lesson Plan visible to students, toggle ‘Visible to students’ to ON.
   Note - Only fields that were selected as visible to students on the template will be made visible.
    
8. Add Curriculum Codes if required.
    
9. Select Save.
   You’ve now created or modified a Lesson Plan on a Class page.
   
   To view the lesson plan, select the title of the Lesson Plan on the Course Outline.
   
   Note - The initial view of the Lesson Plan will only display content visible to students to prevent unintentional sharing of fields that are not visible to students when screen-sharing. To switch to a Teacher view, select the 3-dotmenu icon and select Switch to Teacher View.

Up next:

• Change the location of a Lesson Plan (for school staff)
   

Related links:

• Link Activities to a Lesson Plan (for school staff)
• Create a Lesson Plan on a Unit Page (for school staff)

As a school staff, you can change the location of a lesson plan.

To do this:

1. In Schoolbox, go to the Unit where the project or Learning Activity is currently located.
   Note - You can move a whole project or a single learning activity within a project. To move a learning activity from within a project, select the project title and then follow steps 2 - 7.   
    
2. Select the 3-dot menu icon next to the item you wish to move.
    
3. Select Modify.
    
4. Go to the Activity Location section and then select Change Location.
    
5. Select the location where you are moving the project or learning activity.
    
6. Select Change Location.
    
7. Select Update.
   You’ve now changed the location of a lesson plan. 
    

Up next:

• Link Activities to a Lesson Plan (for school staff)
   

Related links:

• Create a Lesson Plan on a Unit Page (for school staff)
• Create or modify a Lesson Plan on a Class Page (for school staff)

Learning activities relate to the learning objectives of the course. They help students to engage in, practice, and gain feedback on specific progress towards those objectives. For example, in-class and homework tasks, assignments, quizzes, and due work submissions. 

Schoolbox lets you, as school staff, link one or more learning activities to your Lesson Plan.

Once you’ve created a Lesson Plan, you can link one or more learning activities in a Lesson Plan.  

To do this:

1. Go to your class page. 
    
2. Next, select the Lesson Plan you want to link activities to. 
    
3. In the Lesson Plan, select link existing activities. 
   This displays existing learning activities for your Lesson Plan. 
    
4. Select the activities from the list. 
    
5. Then, select Link Activities. 
   This links activities to your Lesson Plan for your class.
   
   Note - If you find no activities to link to your Lesson Plan, you can:
   • create a task  
   • create due work
   • import a course to a class 
     
     You’ve now linked activities to your Lesson Plan.
      

Related links:

• Create a Lesson Plan on a Unit Page (for school staff)
• Create or modify a Lesson Plan on a Class Page (for school staff) 
• Change the location of a Lesson Plan (for school staff)