What scheduling tools does OpenSky offer?

OpenSky builds the schedule for you and then keeps it up to date as life happens. These are the tools that shape it, roughly in the order you meet them.

Setting up the year#

• School calendar — the days of the week you teach, your holidays and breaks, and the school year's first and last day. Every course is scheduled against it. See Creating your first calendar.
• Holidays and breaks — draw a break on the calendar, or import a standard set for your region in one step. Lessons skip those days. See Adding holidays and breaks and Importing standard holidays.
• School years — start the next year without losing the current one, with each student's grade moved up. See Adding a new school year.

Placing courses#

• Pacing — Fixed pace schedules a set number of lessons on each teaching day; Finish by deadline spreads the remaining lessons so the course completes by a date. See Course pacing.
• Start dates — a course can start today, on a future date, or part-way through if you are picking up a curriculum you already began. See Scheduling a course for the future, Scheduling a course that started already and Scheduling the first lesson.
• Block scheduling — rotate two courses in one slot, start a course when another ends, teach several at once, set up A and B weeks, and give a block a time. See Block scheduling.
• Activities — one-off and repeating items alongside courses, which can push courses forward on the days they happen. See Activities.

Keeping it current#

• Moving a lesson — drag a lesson to another day. Moving it earlier offers to bring the later lessons forward too. See Moving a lesson.
• Clearing a day — a date's ⋯ menu has Move incomplete lessons, which sends a day's unfinished work to the next teaching day. See Overdue lessons.
• Days off — Add day off on the checklist records a holiday, sick day, weather day or absence, and the affected lessons move. See Attendance.
• Pausing — pause a course or a block and resume later without losing your place. See Pausing a course.

Seeing it elsewhere#

The whole schedule, or one student's, can be subscribed to from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook and family displays. See Calendar integrations.

Need more help?#

Reach out any time at support@openskyplanner.com and we will be happy to help.