Planbook for Mac User Guide

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Planbook for Mac is an app designed to enable educators to manage their lesson plans using an elegant, sophisticated application. Planbook is used by thousands of K-12 Teachers, College Professors, and Homeschool parents. Planbook is available for sale directly from http://www.hellmansoft.com or from the Mac App Store. Generous site license pricing is also available.

Below, please find the latest user guide for Planbook. If you prefer a printer or PDF version of this document, please use the print/export options on the left side of the screen. Any page may be printed and the entire book is also available as a PDF file. Please don't hesitate to contact me at jeff@hellmansoft.com with any questions.

Good luck and happy planning!

--Jeff Hellman (jeff@hellmansoft.com)

What's New

• What's New in Planbook 3.0

Getting Started with Planbook

• Creating your Planbook Data File
• Setting the Meeting Times For Your Classes
• Entering Lesson Plans
  • Entering Lesson Plans Using the Detail Mode
• Creating Assignments
• Attaching Files and Web Links to your Plans

Viewing and Navigating Your Plans

• Day, Week and Month Views
• Navigating Your Calendar
• Detail Mode
• Showing and Hiding Courses
• Choosing Fields to Show in Day, Week and Month View

Adjusting Your Schedule

Managing your Lessons and Days

• Bumping and Pulling Lessons Back
• Creating Non-School Days and Vacations
• Using Custom Days
• Modifying Your Calendar
• Reusing Your Plans in the Next Year

Managing your Courses

• Adding Courses to your Schedule
• Removing Courses from your Schedule
• Renaming your Classes

Tracking Standards

• Adding Standards to your Planbook File
• Using Standards in your Plans

Categorizing and Reusing your Plans

• Using Units to Group Lesson Plans
• Using Keywords to Organize Lesson Plans
• Using the Library to Reuse Lesson Plans
• Importing and Exporting Lesson Plans

Printing, Emailing and Creating PDFs of your Plans

• Weekly Report
• Daily Report
• Special Reports

Making your Plans Available on the Internet

• Using PlanbookConnect to Share Plans
• Sharing Plans on Your Own Website

• Setting up your Plans for Publishing
• Putting your Plans on your own Website

Planbook Preferences

• Adjusting your Planbook Preferences