Planbook for Mac User Guide

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 one large HTML page or 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

How To Get More Help

• How to get Help with Planbook

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