Editing a lesson

Once the lesson is created (see Distribute the hours and create the lessons), you adjust its fields one by one: subject, group, teacher, room, resources, duration, memo, and — depending on your plan — status and modality. This page sums up all the fields of a lesson and how to change them.

Where a lesson is edited

The same fields can be set in three ways, depending on the display mode of the hours distribution (see Three display modes):

  • Sticky notes: each lesson card carries a row of icons (one per field); a click opens the matching selector.
  • Reorganization: clicking a lesson opens a lesson form gathering those same fields; a multi-selection edits them in bulk.
  • Listing: one column per field, with mass editing from the column header on the ticked lessons.

Whichever path you take, it is the same lesson you are editing: the values are consistent from one mode to the next, and nothing is published until you have saved.

Standard fields

Available on all plans:

  • Subject Edit — the subject attached to the lesson, among those declared on the class.
  • Group Assign group — the group or subgroup involved when the class is divided.
  • Teacher Assign teachers — the teacher or teachers. Selecting several teachers on the same lesson amounts to co-teaching (see Complex lessons).
  • Room Assign a classroom — choose the lesson's main room; the advanced variants are detailed further down, depending on the features active on the account.
  • Resources Assign resources — the equipment involved (projector, tablets, etc.), with availability checking.
  • Duration — drag the card's bottom border (sticky notes mode) to lengthen or shorten the lesson.
  • Position and lock Place on timetable — pin a lesson so that the generation does not move it (see Locking a lesson).
  • Memo Comment — a free-form comment, with visibility levels (see Memos).

Room and assignment

Assigning a room Assign a classroom is open to all plans: choose a room from the list, or let the automatic mode suggest a compatible room (capacity, tags, availability).

Advanced lesson features: status, modality, multi-room and advanced durations only unfold if they are enabled on your account.

Advanced lesson features

Lesson status

The status Status indicates where a lesson stands in the planning cycle. Four values:

  • Planned — the normal status of a placed lesson.
  • Draft — lesson hidden and ignored by the automatic generation: useful for preparing a lesson without imposing it on the timetable yet.
  • Canceled — lesson displayed as canceled but kept for the record; it is ignored by the generation.
  • Done — lesson carried out, counted in the dashboards and in billing. This status is offered on calendar-type timetables, where tracking actual lessons makes sense.

The status is carried by the whole lesson (not by an alternate-week variant). You change it lesson by lesson, or in bulk from listing mode.

Modality

The modality specifies how the lesson takes place:

  • In person;
  • Remote;
  • Hybrid;
  • Self study.

The modality is chosen in the room selector, next to the assignment. It has a concrete effect: a remote or self-study lesson requires no room, and the generation does not ask for one. The lesson's icon reflects the chosen modality.

Multi-room

A single lesson can receive several rooms: hold Shift ⇧ while clicking to extend the selection. Handy when a cohort spreads over two neighboring rooms, or when a lesson occupies a doubled space. The selected rooms are all booked and count towards conflicts.

Custom durations and times

Beyond the duration read from the grid, a lesson can carry custom durations (actual duration for the dashboards, counted duration for billing) and an off-grid time (explicit start and end times). These settings, along with the off-grid classes, are detailed on their dedicated page: Off-grid lessons.

Edit several lessons at once

To apply the same value to a batch of lessons:

  • in reorganization, Shift+click extends the selection to a range; the shared form then edits all the lessons together;
  • in listing, tick the lessons you want then use the column's header action button (duration, teacher, group, room, status…).

It is the fast lane for, say, switching a set of lessons to Draft or assigning them a shared room.

Delete a lesson

The Delete icon removes the lesson. The deletion becomes permanent upon saving: before you save, review the deletions, as there is no global undo on this screen.

How-to

Change a lesson's status

  1. Open the class's hours distribution (Step 6).
  2. Click the lesson's status icon Status (or open its form in reorganization mode).
  3. Choose the status you want — for example Draft to hide it from the generation.
  4. To process a batch, switch to listing, tick the lessons and apply the status from the column header.
  5. Save to publish the changes.

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