The Lesson Plan tab in each classroom is your planning book — now connected to your school's curriculum. Place each lesson in its unit and topic, tick the objectives it covers, attach your materials, reflect after teaching and submit it to your head of department. Every plan you save moves the class's course outline forward, so you, your HOD and your students can see exactly how far through the course you are.
Who uses it: teachers, for each class they teach.
Open the Lesson Plan tab
- Go to My Classrooms and open a class.
- Choose the Lesson Plan tab.
At the top you'll see which curriculum the class is Following, how many objectives it has and whether the class was matched automatically. Below that are your plans, with filters for All, Drafts, Submitted and With feedback, and a search box for title, unit or topic.
Switch between Plans (your list of plans) and Outline (the whole curriculum with coverage) using the switch next to Create.
Create a lesson plan
Choose Create, or open the Outline and choose Plan a lesson on any topic — the new plan opens already placed in that unit and topic. The plan opens in a panel with five tabs.
1. Plan
- Topic — what the lesson is about (required).
- Period starting and Period ending — the dates the plan covers.
- Curriculum — choose the Unit, Topic and, if you like, the Sub-topic this lesson belongs to. The unit's duration, strand, prior learning, career links, cross-curricular links and resources appear right there to help you plan.
If your class doesn't follow a curriculum yet, the Plan tab lists the published curricula for your subject — pick one and choose Use it. If none has been published for your subject and grade, you can still save the plan; ask your HOD or administrator to publish one.
2. Objectives
- Curriculum objectives — tick the objectives this lesson addresses (or Select all) and set each one to Planned, Covered or Carried forward. Use Insert as text to copy them into your written objectives.
- Lesson objectives — what students will be able to do, in your own words (required).
3. Content
- Main content — the body of the lesson: engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration.
- Attachments — upload a File, or Create a new Google Doc, Sheet or Slides. Attach the full lesson plan document, worksheets or slides.
4. Evaluation
Fill this in after you teach the lesson.
- Rating and Evaluation date, with your comments.
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Post-lesson reflection:
- whether the lesson was completed
- % objectives covered and % that grasped the lesson
- ratings from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) for time management, lesson delivery, effectiveness of strategy, student participation and effectiveness of instructional material
- Evidence of the 4 C's — Collaborate, Think critically, Communicate, Be creative
- attendance — students In class, Present, Absent and Late
- Plan of action — advance to the next topic, reinforce, reteach, homework activities, or individual assistance out of class time
- Comments
5. Feedback
Once the plan is saved and submitted, your head of department's rating and the discussion thread appear here. Reply to comments, like them, or start the conversation yourself.
Save and submit
- Save keeps the plan as a Draft. You can come back to it at any time.
- Submit sends it to your head of department and school leadership for review. The plan shows as SUBMITTED.
- Withdraw takes a submitted plan back to Draft if you need to change it.
You can also submit or withdraw straight from the plan list without opening the plan.
Track coverage with the Outline
Switch to Outline to see the whole curriculum for the class: every unit with its percentage covered, every topic with the lesson plans placed in it, and every objective with its status — Not started, Planned, Covered or Carried forward. When several plans touch the same objective, the most advanced status wins.
Use Expand all to open every unit, turn objectives on or off, and Print the outline for your files.
Common questions
Do I have to place every plan in the curriculum?
No. A plan saves without a unit or topic, but it won't count towards coverage on the outline.
My class is following the wrong curriculum.
On the Plan tab, choose Change to pick another published curriculum for your subject, or ask your administrator to assign the class on the curriculum's Classrooms tab.
Who can see my plans?
You, your head of department and school leadership can open your plans. Students and parents never see a plan's contents: their course outline shows coverage, plus the title and dates of submitted plans under each topic. Drafts stay private.
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