The Lesson Planner is an optional feature that provides teachers a dedicated page to record lessons taught in each unit.
Watch: Lesson Planner
If lessons are enabled, the following will be visible:
- Lesson Planner tab located at the top of each unit.
- My Lessons under My Atlas, click here to learn more about My Lessons.
Once in the Lesson Planner, you will see a My Lessons list, which contains any of the lessons you have created in this unit. Your course collaborators lessons will be listed below in the Other Lessons list, which you can click and view but you can not edit or delete.
If you are not a collaborator on this course, you will see the lessons titles only. You can't view the lessons details. Click here to learn more about lesson permissions in Atlas.
When a lesson owner leaves Atlas, their lessons can be:
- Copied by the course collaborators. The copies can be edited.
- Deleted by the course collaborators. View the lesson, and go to Actions > Move to Recycle Bin.
Add a New Lesson
From My Atlas > My Courses > Select a Course > Select a Unit > Lesson Planner tab > Add New Lesson:
- Required: Enter a Lesson Title.
- Required: Select the course.
- Optional: Select the unit.
- Optional: Enter the Duration of the lesson by choosing the date you will begin teaching it and finish it. This can be adjusted at any time.
- Optional: Select the lesson co-editors. If none selected, you'll be the only user who can edit this lesson.
Click Save and you'll be directed back to the lesson planner list. Click on the title of the new lesson to add the lesson details. To learn more about Lesson Development, click here.
Edit a Lesson
From My Atlas > My Courses > Select a Course > Select a Unit > Lesson Planner tab:
Under My Lessons list, click on any lesson you would like to edit.
- Align your lesson to the standards by clicking Choose Standards. You can select from Unit Targeted Standards or standards not targeted in this unit under Additional Standards.
- Enter the lesson Details. This box has the same functionalities as any category in your Atlas Unit Planner.
- Add an attachment to this lesson by clicking Attachments link below the Details box, follow the steps to add the file type you want to add.
Atlas will automatically save the work you enter here, but you can also manually save by clicking the Save button at the top of the page.
Collaborative teams can't develop the same lesson at the same time. Once a collaborator edits a lesson, the lesson is locked until they leave the lesson, or after 12 minutes of no activity.
To learn more about Lesson Development, click here.
Delete Lesson(s)
You can only delete lessons belonging to you.
From My Atlas > My Courses > Select a Course > Select a Unit > Lesson Planner tab:
In collaborative lessons, only the creator can delete the lesson. When the creator deletes a lesson, a copy is NOT saved for the collaborators of that lesson. Only collaborators that are assigned to the course as Curriculum Developers, or as Teachers, or have Special Editing Privileges, can restore lessons from the lessons Recycle Bin.
- Under the My Lessons list, tick any box next to the lesson(s) you would like to delete.
- A Delete icon should appear at the top right side of your screen. Click this button when you have selected all the lessons you would like to delete.
- A pop-up box will ask you to confirm the deletion, click OK to place the unit in the Recycle Bin.
To restore a deleted lesson, click the Recycle Bin button in your Lesson Planner tab.
1. Due to cloud storage considerations that might affect your Atlas performance, we reserve the right to delete anything older than 3 years in the Recycle Bin.
2. In collaborative lessons, only the creator can delete the lesson. When the creator deletes a lesson, a copy is NOT saved for the collaborators of that lesson. Only collaborators that are assigned to the course as Curriculum Developers, or as Teachers, or have Special Editing Privileges, can restore lessons from the lessons Recycle Bin.
Add Collaborator(s) to Lesson(s)
Lesson creators can add editor(s) to edit their lessons. From My Atlas > My Courses > Select a Course > Select a Unit > Lesson Planner tab:
- Under the My Lessons list tick the box next to the lesson(s) you would like to add collaborators to them.
- An Add Editor icon should appear at the top of your screen. Click this button when you have selected all the lessons you would like to assign to another collaborator (s).
- In the Add Editor(s) field, type in the first few letters of the collaborator's first or last name. Select the title that pops-up.
- Click Save.
Collaborative teams can't develop the same lesson at the same time. Once a collaborator edits a lesson, the lesson is locked until they leave the lesson, or after 12 minutes of no activity.