TABLE OF CONTENTS
Plan Card
Educators and students will see their active plans for the week presented as a plan card - see image below showing a plan card - 'The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilizations'.
Educator view:
In addition, students will see a progress bar so they know how much work they have completed.
The plan card shows an overview of the content in each plan:
- Plan title: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilizations
- Topic: World History
- Description
- Start and end dates
- Number of resources
- Image/Illustration
- Progress bar (only available for students)
If educators and students have several plans for the week, they will see only the first two plans in full display. To see more, click the "Show more" button.
To better control what information students will see when opening a course, teachers can pin a plan on the course overview page. Teachers can pin a plan in single plan page, when opening the 3-dot menu top corner right. The pinned plan will be listed first on course overview page. You can both pin plans with and without a date. You can only pin one plan at a time.
Click the plan card to open and see all plan details:
What will you find in the Plan details:
- On the left is general information about the plan, such as title, topic, date, visibility toggle and image/illustration.
- On the right is plan description, resources and activities as well as learning objectives.
- To get an overview of students’ progress without having to navigate to the 360 reports, teachers will see numbers next to the resources and activities. The number to the left indicates how many students that have submitted an activity or opened/read a resource, the number to the right shows total number of students. Teachers can't track students' progress if there are more than 99 students in a course to avoid performance issues..
Teachers can't track students' progress if there are more than 99 students in a course to avoid performance issues.
Educators can arrange their resources and activities in any order they like using drag and drop or their keyboard.
If educators add extra information like teacher notes, these will appear at the bottom. The 'Back to overview' link at the top will return you to the course overview page.
Plan images
Teachers can add images from their computer. To remove an image, just click the button "Remove image".
Only images files of type jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp or png can be uploaded. We don’t have a maximum file size, this is decided by the customer setting: "Maximum allowed upload picture size".
We recommend using horizontal images with the 3:2 ratio. We don’t auto-scale the image but adjust it so that it fits the image box. If you add an image in portrait mode, we maintain its aspect ratio, but the image will be clipped to fit. Top and bottom will be cut.
Student Ownership
We want to help students taking ownership of their learning. By adding check marks and a progress bar, students can monitor individual achievement. Resources will automatically be marked as read once a student opens it, but students can choose to mark them as unread. Activities will be marked as done after the student has submitted. If educators assess an activity as not satisfactory, the check mark will be removed again.
To start working on a plan, a student can click any resource or activity. All resources and activities for a plan will appear in a side menu and can be used for navigation. Educators will get this side menu as well.
Plans page
The Plans page gives you an overview of all plans. The navigation is simplified, making it easier for teachers to find their plans. There are tabs for filtering on 'Current' plans, 'Past' plans, 'Without date' and 'Topics'. Each tab has a counter, so that you can see number of current and past plans as well as number of plans without date and topics.
Educators can also copy, delete, print and make their plans visible or not.
Current plans
Plans are sorted by date. The plan at the top is either the current plan or the next upcoming plan. To create a new plan, click the green 'Create plan' button.
Past plans
The most recent plan appears at the top of the list.
Plans without date
Plans without dates are sorted by the last created plan at the top. Educators can also specify in which order their plans without a date should be listed. They can either use drag and drop or their keyboard to reorganise their list.
If you have not added an image, you will see a dynamic placeholder image with the same colour as the topic colour (see image below). Here, the plan for “The Moons”, appears in the same yellow colour as the topic.
Topics
Topics function like a folder or tag so it's easier to organise plans. Educators will see a list of their topics as well as a folder for plans without a topic. Each topic shows the number of plans for that topic and the dates shown refer to the start date of the first plan and the end date of the last plan. Educators can also specify in which order to list their topics. They can either use drag and drop or their keyboard to reorganise their list.
Create a new plan
Educators will see a cleaner interface when creating plans. Click the green 'Create plan' button.
You can:
- Add an image: Teachers can for now only add images from their computer. Only images files of type jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp or png can be uploaded. We don’t have a maximal file size, this is decided by the customer setting: "Maximum allowed upload picture size".We recommend using horizontal images with the 3:2 ratio. We don’t auto-scale the image but adjust it so that it fits the image box. If you add an image in portrait mode, we maintain its aspect ratio, but the image will be clipped to fit. Top and bottom will be cut.
- Give your plan a title
- Add a description
- Choose to add dates
- Add topic
- Add learning objectives
- Make it visible to your students.
Note that plans will automatically be sorted by date and will by default be invisible to students.
Not using dates?
If a teacher is not adding dates to their plans, they can use ‘Self-Paced Learning course or Self-Paced plans.
To use Self-Paced Learning course focus you can either create a new course from scratch or change the one that you already have.
Follow the steps below to see how to change the course focus from ‘Subject’ to ‘Self-Paced Learning’ in an existing course:
1. Go to 'Course Settings' on the drop down menu [...]
2. Click on 'Course properties and features'
3. Change the course focus to 'Self-paced learning'
Or you can use your subject focus course,
To use the Self-Paced Plans, you have to follow the steps below:
- In the Plans tab, click on the dropdown menu […] and select ‘Plans setting’
2. In Plan settings, change the plan type to ‘Self-paced’ and choose your preferred plan workflow.
Learn more about the Self Paced Learning course and Self-Paced Plans.
Table View
To enhance long-term planning, teachers can make plans directly in the table view when they choose the topic view. The table view has two tabs: plans and topics, making it easier to organise and manage content.
Teachers can also select and copy all plans in the table view, making it simpler to duplicate and manage their plans. This feature gives teachers more flexibility and efficiency in their planning.
Sorting Plans in Table View
Teachers can sort plans directly in the table view without changing how they appear on the topic page.
The sorting in table view is personal and temporary.
- It only applies to your own view.
- It resets each time you reopen the table view.
How Sorting Works
Even though the sorting is personal, it still follows the sorting logic set on the topic page:
If a topic is sorted alphabetically, the table view will show plans in the same order.
If no sorting is defined:
In deadline-driven courses, plans are sorted by date (ascending).
In self-paced courses, plans follow the custom order set by the teacher.
Viewing Multiple Topics
When you view multiple topics in table view:
Plans are displayed in one unified list (not grouped by topic).
This makes it easier to:
Compare plans across different topics.
Manage and reorganize them in a single, streamlined view.