# Managing enrolled courses

URL: https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/managing-courses
Tab: Scheduling & Courses
Category: Scheduling
Updated: 2026-10-08

Edit, archive and reorganize the courses in your homeschool.

Each student's courses are managed from the **Enrollments** tab on their page. **Courses** in the sidebar, under **Enrolled Courses**, lists every enrollment across the household in one place.

Video: https://openskyvideo.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/edit+course.mp4

## The course list

Click the student in the sidebar, then **Enrollments**. The list has three tabs: **Active**, **Upcoming** and **Past**. Filter it with the **All**, **Courses** and **Activities** chips, search titles, or sort by **Checklist order**, **Name**, **Earliest start date** or **Earliest end date**.

**Edit order…** in the sort menu opens a drag-to-reorder list. This sets the order courses appear on the student's checklist and nothing else.

![A course row with its menu open](https://opensky-public-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/supportimages/scheduling/managing-courses-1.png)

## What the course statuses mean

Every row carries a status beside its title. Which one you see follows a fixed order: a finished course is **Completed**; otherwise anything late shows **Overdue lessons**; otherwise, if the course has a target date, its pace is compared with that date; and with no target it is **Beautiful**.

| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| **Completed** | Every lesson is done. The course sits on the **Past** tab. |
| **Beautiful** | Nothing is overdue and no target date is set, so there is nothing to measure against. |
| **Ahead of plan** | The projected finish is more than a week before the target date. |
| **On plan** | The projected finish is within a week of the target date, either side. |
| **Shifting Rhythm** | The projected finish is more than a week after the target date. Add days, raise the lessons per day, or move the target. |
| **Overdue lessons** | At least one lesson is past its scheduled day. See [Overdue lessons](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/overdue-lessons). |
| **Starting next week** | The first lesson falls within the coming week. The course is on the **Active** tab. |
| **Upcoming** | The first lesson is further out than next week. The course sits on the **Upcoming** tab with its start date. |
| **Add Lessons** | The course has no lessons yet, so there is nothing to schedule. |
| **Paused** | Scheduling is stopped; see [Pausing a course](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/pausing-a-course). |

The projected finish is the date of the last lesson on the current schedule. Both dates appear on the expanded row as **Projected** and **Target**, and the **Completion trend** chart plots completions against them.

## Setting a target date to track progress

A target date turns the status into a pacing check and draws the target line on the chart. Set one even when you are happy with a fixed pace: it tells you early whether the course will end before the school year does.

1. On the **Enrollments** tab, expand the course row.
2. In the strip at the top, click the blue value beside **Target** and pick a day on the calendar.
3. Click **Save**.

The × beside the date clears it, which takes the course back to **Beautiful**. With **Pacing** set to **Fixed pace**, the target is only a measure. With **Pacing** set to **Deadline**, the target is the date OpenSky spreads the remaining lessons to reach, and it cannot be saved without one. Weekly courses keep a target date too, though their pace is always one lesson a week. See [Course pacing](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/course-pacing).

## Row actions

Each row has a list icon that opens the [course editor](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/course-editor), and a menu with:

- **Edit lessons** — the course editor.
- **Track books** — tag books the course uses; see [Books](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/books).
- **Course settings** — grading, display and student permissions (below).
- **Print course** — see [Printing a course](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/printing-course).
- **Complete & archive** — marks the course finished and removes it from checklists and the planner. Progress and grades are kept, and the course stays eligible for transcripts. It moves to the **Past** tab, where **Make active** brings it back.
- **Pause** / **Resume** — stops scheduling without losing progress; see [Pausing a course](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/pausing-a-course).
- **Delete** — permanently removes the course with its grades, completions and progress. This cannot be undone.

To change a course's title, subject or publisher, open it in the course editor and click the pencil beside the title.

## Course settings

**Course Settings** has three tabs for an enrolled course (a template shows only **Display**, plus its **Cadence**):

- **Grading** — the default **Grading style**, credits, **Category weights**, and **Count hours toward**, where you tag the course **Core**, **Non-Core** or **Elective**. A course can carry more than one tag; the gradebook totals hours by category across the term. See [Gradebook](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/gradebook) and [Adjusting grade weights](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/grade-weights).
- **Display** — lesson **Numbering** (by position in the parent folder or in the whole course, decimal or single numbers) and **Default hours per lesson**.
- **Student Permissions** — one switch, **Allow students to add and edit lesson grades for this course**.

## Changing the schedule

Start date, teaching days and pacing are edited from the row itself and from the **Block Schedule** view. See [Course pacing](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/course-pacing), [Block scheduling](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/block-scheduling) and [Scheduling a course that started already](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/scheduling-a-course-that-started-already).

## Need more help?

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