Enable or disable lesson sharing in the Planner

When you add a quick lesson plan to the Planner, you can choose to share the lesson with other teachers of the same course or make the lesson private. When a lesson plan is private, it does not appear in My Resources for any other teacher.

Note: Lesson sharing is disabled by default. Teachers who want to share their lesson plans must enable this feature.

To enable lesson sharing:

  1. Log on to the Staff view.
  2. Click the Planner tab. Your Planner appears.
  3. In the upper-right corner of the screen, select the Lessons view. Your lessons appear.

  1. See Create Lesson Plans Separate from a Curriculum Map for more information on adding lesson plans.
  1. To make a quick lesson plan shared, do one of the following:
    • On the quick lesson plan displayed in the Planner, click the icon to toggle the lesson plan to "shared." When the quick lesson plan is shared, the icon appears.

      Note: To change a lesson plan back to private, click the icon again. When a quick lesson plan is private, the icon appears.

    • In My Resources, add or edit a quick lesson plan. The details pop-up appears.

  1. Select the Viewable by course's teachers checkbox.
  2. Click Save.

When a quick lesson plan is shared, it appears in My Resources for all teachers who teach that course. The quick lesson plan appears in Uploads > Course # > Teacher's name folder (the teacher who created the lesson).

To open a shared quick lesson plan in another teacher's folder:

Do one of the following:

  • Double-click the quick lesson plan name.
  • Select the quick lesson plan, and then click Edit.

The lesson plan details appear as read-only.

Note: The lesson plan must be in the course's folder, under the teacher's sub-folder, before other teachers can view it.

To create your own editable copy of a quick lesson plan shared by another teacher:

  1. Log on to the Staff view.
  2. Click the Planner tab, and then select the Lessons checkbox.
  3. Drag and drop the lesson plan from My Resources > Uploads > Course # > Teacher's name folder (the teacher who created the lesson) onto the Planner. An editable copy of the quick lesson plan is created in My Resources > Uploads > Course # > Teacher's name folder (your name).

  4. Notes:

    • You can only edit one component of the quick lesson plan at a time from the Planner. Use My Resources to edit the entire quick lesson plan.
    • Sharing is disabled by default in the newly-created copy of the lesson plan. Enable sharing by clicking the icon on the quick lesson displayed in the Planner, or by editing the newly-created copy of the quick lesson plan in My Resources > Uploads > Course # > Teacher's name folder (your name).