# Moving a lesson

URL: https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/moving-a-lesson
Tab: Scheduling & Courses
Category: Rescheduling
Updated: 2026-10-07

Move one lesson to another day without disturbing the rest of the course.

Drag a lesson to another day, send it to tomorrow from its menu, or give it an exact date from inside the lesson. OpenSky only asks about the rest of the course when the move needs an answer.

## Dragging a lesson

On **Today** or **Upcoming**, drag the card onto another day. Moving forward into an open day happens at once; otherwise a dialog asks about the later lessons:

- **Move future lessons earlier?** — **Move future lessons earlier** pulls the rest of the course up too; **Move only this lesson** leaves it alone.
- **Push lessons out?** — the day already holds the next lesson. **Reschedule future lessons** pushes them back; **Have multiple lessons on this day** stacks them.
- **This move requires all future lessons to be rescheduled** — you moved past the next lesson, so **Reschedule future lessons** is the only way to keep the course in order.

A lesson cannot move earlier than the lesson before it or a completed lesson; OpenSky refuses rather than put the course out of order.

![The dialog shown after dragging a lesson onto a day that already has one](https://opensky-public-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/supportimages/scheduling/moving-a-lesson-1.png)

## Using the lesson menu

Right-click a card (press and hold on a touch screen) to open **Move to**: **Tomorrow**, **Next Teaching Day & Cascade** (later lessons shift to follow) or **Next Teaching Day & Double Up** (it joins the next lesson on its day). The **…** menu of an open lesson has the same rows. For an exact date, open the lesson, click **Move**, pick a day and click **Move Lesson**.

## What a move leaves behind

A moved lesson is pinned to its date. In the student's **Enrollments** tab the date shows a pin icon and the course row shows **Upcoming lessons are manually pinned to dates.** with a **Reset scheduling** button. Click the pin to clear one, or **Reset scheduling** to return the course to automatic scheduling. Completed lessons keep their dates.

## Skipping instead

Open the lesson and click **Skip**. **Skip lesson only** leaves the course in place; **Skip and move next lesson here** also pulls the next lesson onto that day. A skipped lesson never shows as overdue.

## Back to pending

Click the completion circle on a completed card to undo it, or in the **Enrollments** tab click the lesson's status badge and choose **Mark pending**. This also restores a skipped lesson.

## Weekly lessons and activities

A weekly lesson stands on every teaching day of its week, so drag it to another week to move it. Dragging one day of an activity moves only that occurrence. Students need the **Move lessons** and **Skip lessons** permissions. See [Permissions](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/permissions).

## Need more help?

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