Adding Courses to your Planner

Planbook allows you to add courses to your file after the initial setup process. Planbook allows you to:

• Add an existing course to days the class didn't previously meet.
• Add a new course to a day (or days) in your schedule.
• Add a course to a subset of the days in your file.
• Add a course to a fixed day of the week (even if your file is a rotating or block schedule).
• Add an existing course to a single day of your year.

Adding an Existing Course to New Days in your Schedule

Regardless of the type of schedule you use, Planbook allows you to easily add an existing course to days that the course didn't previously meet. To add an existing course to new day, first use the Schedule-->Add Course menu item to bring up the Add Course window. Then, select the Add Meetings to an Existing Course tab.

Once you have the window up as shown to the right, you can select the course you want to add from the pop up on the left. Then, use the checkboxes to assign the existing course to the days in your schedule. The example to the right shows either a Weekly Repeating or Same Thing Everyday schedule. If you have a rotating or block schedule, the table will show the days of your rotation rather than the days of the week (by default).

Adding an Existing Course When That Course Meets Already

Planbook does support multiple instances of a single class on a single type of day. To add an additional meeting for a class, follow the same steps listed above for Adding an Existing Course to New Days in your Schedule but select the day that the course already meets. Doing this will result in an additional meeting of that class.

There are some issues to consider before doing this.

1. Publishing will not work properly with multiple meetings of a single class on a single type of day.
2. Syncing to PlanbookConnect will not work properly with multiple meetings of a single class on a single type of day.
3. If a day contains multiple instances of a class, those instances cannot be individually removed. All the instances of that course will be removed when removing courses.

If those caveats aren't acceptable, you'll want to create a new course with a different name (Physics AM and Physics PM, for example) and add the new course rather than repeating an existing course.

Adding a New Course to Your Schedule

If you get assigned a new class to teach or find that you want to plan an additional activity, after-school program, or other block of time, you can easily add a completely new class to your plans.

To add a new class to your schedule, first choose the Schedule-->Add Course menu item. You'll be presented with the add course window. Make sure you've got the create a new course tab selected as shown to the right.

Name the new class (note that this name must be unique in your file) and choose the days that you would like it to be added. The example to the right shows a weekly repeating schedule. Rotating and Block schedules will reflect the days of your rotation, rather than the days of the week.