# Activities

URL: https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/activities
Tab: Scheduling & Courses
Category: Creating
Updated: 2026-10-07

Add one-off and recurring activities alongside your courses.

An activity is anything on the schedule that is not a course lesson: piano, chores, a field trip, an appointment. One-off or repeating, for one person or the whole family, with or without a time.

## Adding an activity

- On a student's page, click **Add** and type what you want, such as "Soccer practice every Monday and Tuesday", or pick **Activity**.
- On the Today or Upcoming checklist, click **Add** then **Add activity**, or choose **Add activity** from a date's **⋯** menu.

Then:

1. Enter a title, a **Category** (To-do, Appointment, Art & Music, Chores, Class, Field Trip, Routine, Sports, or **Other** with your own word) and an optional **Description**.
2. Pick the date. Tick **Add time** for a start and end time, or **+ Add end date** for a one-off that spans several days, such as a camp.
3. For a repeating activity, tick **Repeats** and set the **Days**, **Repeat until** and **Repeats every** so many weeks. **Don't schedule on holidays** is on by default.
4. Under **People**, pick students and parents. Each person completes it separately.
5. Click **Add** or **Create Activity**.

![Adding a repeating activity](https://opensky-public-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/supportimages/scheduling/activities-1.png)

## Additional options

- **Counts towards attendance** — completing it marks the student present, even on a non-school day. See [Attendance](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/attendance).
- **Add to parent grading queue** — each completed occurrence waits in the Ungraded column, and the activity appears in the gradebook and on transcripts. See [Gradebook](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/gradebook).
- **Reschedule other courses** — that day's lessons move to the next teaching day. Needs at least one student selected.

## Holidays and teaching days

Activities land on the days you choose. Teaching days never filter them, so a Saturday chore is fine, and holidays only matter when **Don't schedule on holidays** is ticked. Lessons always skip both; see [Adding holidays and breaks](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/adding-holidays-and-breaks).

## Pasting a schedule

For a class with its own timetable, click **Paste or upload a schedule instead**, then paste the dates and times or upload a photo or PDF. OpenSky turns it into occurrences you can review before adding.

## Editing

Click the activity on the checklist, then use **Edit activity**, **Duplicate activity** or **Delete activity**. An edit applies to every occurrence; a single day is moved on the checklist itself.

## Replacing a day's lessons with an activity

Learning at the zoo today? Open the date's **⋯** menu, choose **Change day status**, then **Activity, no courses**. The form opens with **Counts towards attendance** and **Reschedule other courses** already ticked, so the day counts and the lessons move on.

## Need more help?

Reach out any time at [support@openskyplanner.com](mailto:support@openskyplanner.com) and we will be happy to help.