What is Lesson Planner? 

The built-in lesson planner helps teachers strengthen intentional teaching practices and build daily and weekly plans based on their unique schedules. Create a rich library of instructional activities that you can easily share and reuse. Connect all lessons to your specific curriculum frameworks, state standards, or even COR Advantage assessment items.

Table of Contents: 

1. Accessing Lesson Planner 
2. Setting Up Your Classroom Schedule
3. Adding and Editing Lessons 
4. Search for Lessons
5. Drag-and-Drop Lessons
6. Removing Lessons
7. Sharing Your Lessons
   1. Lesson and Materials List Layouts
      1. Weekly Summary
      2. Daily Summary
      3. Daily Lessons
      4. Weekly Materials List

Accessing Lesson Planner

Setting Up Your Classroom Schedule

You can edit your classroom schedule sections at any time! Please note that each week will lock on Sunday night, preserving the setup and work you did during that period. Therefore, you will want to make any section changes on Monday morning to avoid losing any lessons. When you first access this feature, this is what you will see: 

The far-left column shows default sections, and in the planner, you'll see plus signs where you can add all the lessons for each day by section. 

First, change the sections to reflect how your day is organized. Editing this column will change the Lesson Planner for everyone in your classroom. Click on the grey pencil next to Sections to rename, move, and delete the default offerings.

Adding and Editing Lessons

To add a lesson, click on any plus sign. Users will see two options: create a new lesson or search through previous lessons created in your classroom to reuse them.

To create a new lesson, select “Create Lesson.” From there, a pre-designed template will help you structure and organize your lesson easily. The lesson template includes the sections listed below. Please note that you must enter a lesson name when filling out the template. All other sections are optional, and unused sections will not appear when a user views or prints a completed lesson.

• Lesson Name and Description: Give your lesson a clear and descriptive title that reflects the content. Write a brief description of the lesson, explaining what students will learn or achieve.
• Tags: Add relevant learning or curriculum tags. Lessons can be connected to your school’s specific curriculum framework, state standards, or even the COR Advantage assessment items.
• Preparation: Outline what you need to do before delivering the lesson. Include any pre-lesson preparations, such as setting up equipment, preparing handouts, or reviewing materials. 
• Steps: Plan the structure of your lesson. Break down the lesson into clear and sequential steps.
• Individualization: Explain how you will cater to the individual needs and learning styles of your students. Describe any accommodations or modifications you plan to make for learners with different abilities or preferences.
• Materials: List all supplies required for the lesson, such as textbooks, handouts, manipulatives, etc.
• Supporting Resources: Provide links or references to additional resources that can enhance the lesson or provide further learning opportunities. These could include websites, articles, videos, or books related to the topic.
• Attach file: Upload files such as documents, images, presentation slides, or worksheets.

Search for Lessons

Users can streamline lesson planning with the enhanced Lesson Planner search tool! To search through and choose from your database of previous lessons, click on a plus sign from the lesson grid and select “Search Lessons.” You can search for lessons by title, apply specific tag filters, or seamlessly combine both methods for precise results. Each search result includes the lesson title, a detailed description, and any assigned tags, making it easier to find the right lesson. 

Once you find the lesson you are looking for, simply click into the lesson, select “Add to Plan,” and the lesson will appear on the lesson grid.

Users also have the ability to view or edit past lessons at any time. To do this, select a lesson, then click on the pencil icon in the top right corner. Please note that when editing a previous lesson, all changes will be applied to previous versions used in past weeks and will also apply to the lesson moving forward.

To edit or modify a lesson without affecting previous versions, we suggest creating a duplicate copy of the original lesson. This lets you edit lessons without changing the original version. To duplicate a lesson, select a lesson, then click on the three dots in the top right corner, and select “Duplicate.” This will create a separate copy of the original lesson, which users can then modify.

Drag-and-Drop Lessons

When lessons are added to the lesson grid, users can adjust their placement as their schedule changes. Quickly move a lesson to a different section or day, or extend a lesson across multiple sections or days with the drag-and-drop functionality. 

How to Move a Lesson (Web Version)

To move a lesson to a different section or day of the week:

• Hover over the lesson you want to move
• Click and hold the lesson
• Drag the lesson to the desired section or day
• Release to drop the lesson into its new location

How to Move a Lesson (App Version)

To move a lesson to a different section or day of the week:

• Tap and hold the lesson you want to move
• Drag the lesson to the desired section or day
• Release to drop the lesson into its new location

How to Extend a Lesson (Web Version)

To extend a lesson across multiple sections or days:

• Hover over the lesson you want to extend
• Click and hold the border of the lesson and drag it vertically or horizontally 
• Release to apply the extended lesson range

How to Extend a Lesson (App Version)

To extend a lesson across multiple sections or days:

• Tap once on the lesson you want to extend (a border should appear)
• Drag the border’s edge vertically or horizontally 
• Release to apply the extended lesson range

Removing Lessons

Users have two options when it comes to removing content from the Lesson Planner: 

• Remove From Plan: The lesson will be removed from the grid itself but will remain in your lesson plan database. To remove a lesson, select “Remove From Plan,” located in the top right corner when viewing a lesson.

• Delete: The lesson will be permanently removed from the system. Deleted lessons cannot be restored or recovered once this action is performed. To delete a lesson, select the three dots located in the top right corner when viewing a lesson, and click “Delete.”

Sharing Your Lessons

Prepare for your day and week with customizable print views. Print and share weekly and daily summaries, full lessons, or even generate a supply list based on all the materials in your lesson plans for the day or week. 

To print your lessons or materials list, simply click on the printer icon located in the top right corner of the page. To share your lessons with your families, select the paper airplane icon. You'll be able to share your daily lessons, a weekly summary, and even your supply list for the week! 

In addition to printing and sharing copies of your lesson plans, you can also choose to download a PDF version of your lessons. To do so, click on the three dots in the top-right corner of the page and select “PDF”.

If you're subscribed and have access to the Daily Sheet Digest feature, lessons are automatically included in students’ Daily Sheets after you enter them in the Lesson Planner for that day. When you share lessons with families, the lesson name, a description, and any relevant tags auto-populate in the Daily Sheet Digest. To learn more about adding lessons to Daily Sheets, click here. If you want to include Daily Sheets in your subscription or activate the Daily Sheet Digest, contact us at help@kaymbu.com.

Lesson and Material List Layouts

On the Kaymbu platform, users have option for how they print, download, or share lesson plans. You can choose from a handful of different layouts, including Weekly Summary, Daily Summary, Daily Lessons, or a Weekly Materials List. 

Weekly Summary

When you select the Weekly Summary layout, it populates a brief overview of each lesson assigned throughout the week in a grid-style format. You can choose to include the title of the lesson, the description of the lesson, and/or applicable learning standard tags.  

Daily Summary

The Daily Summary layout populates all lessons for each day of the week or for a selected day. An overview of the lesson, which includes the lesson title and description, will be listed for each selected day(s).

Daily Lessons

The Daily Lessons layout provides a more detailed view, including the lesson title, description, applicable learning standard tags, steps for preparation and instruction, and required lesson materials.  You can populate all lessons for each day of the week, or choose specific days. 

An “Additional Planning Notes” section is also included after each lesson to accommodate any manual notes that may need to be added when printing Daily Lessons.

Weekly Materials List

The Weekly Materials List populates a list of all lesson materials needed throughout the week. You can choose to group the materials by day or by material.