There are two types of lessons you can create in the ClassCart Schedule. A one off lesson, or a recurring lesson. Most classes have lessons that repeat every week or fortnight for a term, semester, or year. It would be tedious to add each of these lessons individually, so ClassCart has a feature to scaffold a lesson line all at once.
Steps to Create a Recurring Lesson Line
To create your lesson line, follow these steps.
Set the Lesson Line Parameters
Before selecting the days and times the class will have lessons, you will first need to set tup the parameters of the lesson line: when it starts and ends, how often it repeats, and how it is ordered.
Go to the schedule page — app.classcart.com/schedule.
Click the green plus (+) button in the top left corner of the schedule grid. Then select the "Add a Lesson Line" option.
You will then be taken to a page to set up the recurring lesson line — app.classcart.com/add-lesson-line. The first thing to do here is select the class you want to create the lesson line for.
Once a class has been selected, you will notice other options show up. The first option is "How to place lessons". Most of the time this option can be safely ignored and left as "Lesson Order".
In rare cases, a school may need to select "Lesson Number" if they have a schedule that shifts each week.
The next option is "Repeat Frequency", to set how many weekdays the lesson line takes to repeat. The default is a repeat frequency of 5 weekdays, for a weekly recurring lesson line.
If, for example, you are creating a fortnightly recurring lesson line, set the repeat frequency to 10 weekdays.
Set the lesson schedule, beginning with the starting and ending date of the lesson line.
For convenience, you will see buttons corresponding to each term, so you can easily set the start or end of the line to be the start or end of a term. For example, a lesson line running throughout the second semester will start at the beginning of term 3 and end at the end of term 4.
Place Lessons On The Grid
Now the main event! You will see a grid laid out as in the image below:
Lesson numbers on the left hand side
Lesson grid in the centre
Active lesson slots in blue. These are clickable buttons to set when the class has lessons.
To begin with, all of these lesson slots will be unselected, with a light blue colour and plus (+) icon in the centre, indicating they are yet to be selected by clicking.
Selected lesson slots have darker blue colour and a minus (-) icon, indicating they can be unselected by clicking.
Inactive lesson slots to show how the lessons repeat. This can help if the repeat frequency doesn't neatly match weeks, or if the lessons are placed according to lesson number.
Days of the week at the top of each day, and example dates for the active — clickable — days
All lesson slots will be
Finalise The Lesson Line
After placing lessons on the grid, enter in any extra information relevant to the lessons in the line. Note: this information will be applied to all lesson in the line. It is possible to update it for any individual lesson after creation.
Metadata — subject, room, year level, allergies — are inherited from the class. You can edit it for individual lessons, once they are generated.
Click the green "Generate Lessons" button.
If there are lessons selected spanning breaks — on either side of a break such as before and after recess, or end of one day and beginning of next day — you will see a popup asking you if you would like to keep these lessons connected or separate them.
The lessons will be generated and shown for you to confirm. At this point they have not been created yet, and you have a chance to check they are showing on the schedule correctly.
When you are satisfied, click the green "Confirm" button. The lessons will be created and you will see them on the main schedule grid.
Next Steps
If you prefer a visual demonstration, you can watch this video that provides an overview of scheduling in ClassCart: