# Overdue lessons

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

What happens to lessons that were not completed on their day, and how to catch up.

A lesson still unfinished after its scheduled day becomes **Overdue**. It stays on its original date and the rest of the course keeps its dates, so nothing slides on its own. Catching up is your call: do the lesson, move it, or skip it.

## Where overdue lessons show

**Today** and **Upcoming** open with an **Overdue** section, oldest first, which disappears when nothing is late. In the student's **Enrollments** tab the course shows an **Overdue lessons** status, each late lesson carries an **Overdue** badge, and the earliest reads **First Overdue Lesson**. A weekly lesson is not late until its week has passed, and it stays in that week.

## Catching up everything at once

1. On **Today**, click **Reschedule** beside the **Overdue** heading.
2. Under **Move all to**, choose **Today & Cascade**, **Tomorrow & Cascade** or **Next Teaching Days & Cascade**. A day that is not a school day is greyed out.
3. **Reschedule overdue lessons** lists each course and the day it picks up. Click **Reschedule lessons**.

Each course's earliest overdue lesson lands on that day and the course continues at its usual pace; lessons already scheduled on or after it shift forward. Overdue activities stay where they are.

![The Reschedule menu on the Overdue section](https://opensky-public-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/supportimages/scheduling/overdue-lessons-1.png)

## Catching up one lesson

- Drag the card to another day, or right-click it and choose **Move to**. **Tomorrow** means tomorrow, not the day after its original date. See [Moving a lesson](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/moving-a-lesson).
- In the **Enrollments** tab, the first overdue lesson has a **Move up** button offering **Next teaching day** or a **Custom date**; later lessons shift to follow.
- Open the lesson and click **Skip** if it is not going to happen.

## Catching up a whole day

Hover over a date heading on **Today** or **Upcoming** and click the gear icon. Under **Lesson actions**, **Move incomplete lessons** sends the day's unfinished lessons to the next teaching day and **Mark everything complete** ticks them all off. Done at the end of the day, this keeps lessons from going overdue at all.

## Far behind?

Use **Move to be next lesson** on the lesson the student is actually up to: everything before it is marked complete and the course re-plans from there. See [Scheduling a course that started already](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/scheduling-a-course-that-started-already).

## Frequently asked questions

### Do overdue lessons push the rest of the course back?
No. Later lessons keep their dates until you move something. A cascade move is what shifts them.

### Why is a course overdue after I paused it?
Resuming restores the schedule exactly as it was, so lessons dated during the pause come back overdue. Use **Reschedule** to move them forward. See [Pausing a course](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/pausing-a-course).

## Need more help?

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