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).

The list keeps a stable order — your bookmarked rooms first, then alphabetical order — and flags the good candidates without moving them:

  • the star marks the best room at that moment; the half star marks the next ones. Hover over them to read what sets them apart: site, occupancy rate, specialisation, and the class preference where relevant;
  • a green chip on one of the room's campus values or one of its tags shows that it matches the class rooms to prioritize. It is the same code as the specialisation, green when it matches the lesson;
  • the capacity turns orange then red as the room becomes too small for the headcount.

The star stays within the rooms the class prioritizes. The half star may leave them when another room fits the headcount markedly better: a 60-seat room kept for 25 students lets the half star point at the 30-seat room still free.

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.

See also