6th Annual Focus Users’ Conference

Teacher Lesson PlansPresented by:Kori Watkins

Lesson Plans

Agenda:

Importing Curriculum GuidesBuilding Lessons under curriculum

guidesResources

Files (embedding) Links

Labels Activities Tests Discussion Forums Standards

Formatting Year at a GlanceExporting Lesson Plans to ShareImporting Shared Lesson Plans  

Creating Lesson Plans from Scratch

Viewing the Curriculum Calendar  Where to print and view lesson plans  

Resourced

 

On the right hand side of the screen, there are resources that can be addedto the created lesson.

To add a resource, simply drag and drop it into the desired lesson

Resources

 

There are various resources that can be added to the curriculum guide .

Files: Any file type. PDFs, JPEGs, GIFs can all be embedded

Link: Links to external websites

Label: Insert text, pictures, charts etc.

Discussion Forum: Allows for students to discuss an assigned topic

Assignment: Add an assignment to the selected unit within the lesson plan

Standard: Search for standards to associate with the selected unit within the lesson plan.

Im

porting Curriculum

Guides

 

Districts are able create curriculum guides for teachers to use as anoutline for teacher lesson plans.

To access the district created curriculum guides, navigate to the Lesson Plan menu and select Lesson Planner.

Next, select New Course Plan

Importing Curriculum

G

uides 

Select the appropriate course code from the Course Plan Catalogcolumn on the left hand side of the box.

If a curriculum guide has been created for the course code selected it will appear

Importing Curriculum

G

uides 

Click on the name of the curriculum guide to view a list of all the units createdwithin the curriculum guide

To view what is housed with an individual unit, select Preview

Im

porting Curriculum

Guides

 

To add the entire curriculum guide, select the double triangle

To add an individual unit from a curriculum guide, select the single triangle ofthe desired unit.

The imported guide will now display on the right hand side of the box where it saysUnits In This Plan.

Im

porting Curriculum

Guides

 

From here, select the courses to use the imported curriculum guide with.

Next, select Create Course Plan

The imported curriculum guide with all selected units/lessons will now appear at the bottom of the list of Course Plans on the left hand side of the Lesson Planner Screen.

Adding Lessons to an

imported guide

 

To begin building lessons under the imported curriculum guide, selectNew Lesson.

A blank lesson template will now appear on the screen.

Title the new lesson and select start and end dates. These dates will affect when the students will be able to view the lesson, as well, as the display of the lesson on the Curriculum Calendar and the Year at a Glance

To ensure that students are only able to view the lesson during the selected dates, check the Hide for Students When Inactive box

Adding Lessons to an

imported guide

 

If an administrator has included components such as Objective or Essential Questions, click on the dotted line to the right of the component title to open it up and type in the information.

Components are create by administrators and other district personnel.

Adding Resources

 

As show before are various resources that can be added to the curriculum guide .

Files: Any file type. PDFs, JPEGs, GIFs can all be embedded

Link: Links to external websites

Label: Insert text, pictures, charts etc.

Discussion Forum: Allows for students to discuss an assigned topic

Assignment: Add an assignment to the selected unit within the lesson plan

Standard: Search for standards to associate with the selected unit within the lesson plan.

Files

 

Links

 

Labels

 

D

iscussion Forums

 

Assignm

ents 

Standards

 

Tests

 

M

oving Resources 

To control the order that the resources appear use the gray triangles to move the resources up and down.

Use the minus sign to the left of the triangles to minimize the resource

If the resource is minimized click on the plus open it it back up

To completely delete a resource, click on the red minus sign.

To save the lesson plan, click the Save button at the top of the screen.

Collapse and Expand will open minimize or open all resources in the selected unit/lesson of the lesson plan

The view what the lesson plan will look like, select the Preview button

Year at a G

lance 

The Year at a Glance button will show all the terms in the school year, and where all the units/lessons fall within the calendar.

Exporting Lesson

Plans to Share 

To export a lesson plan to share with other teachers, click on the Edit button on the desired lesson plan.

Then, select the Export button

Im

porting Shared Lesson Plans

 

This will download an .fpe file onto the computer.

This file can now be shared with other teachers within any district thatutilizes Focus LMS.

To import a shared lesson plan.

Start by selecting New Course Plan from the Grades menu.

Next, title the lesson plan and then select the Import tab

Then, select Choose File

Im

porting Shared Lesson Plans

 

Select the desired imported file and click on Open. The file code will end in .fpe

The selected file will now appear on the screen. Click on Submit.

Select the parts of the lesson plan to import and select Finish Import. Finally, selectCreate Course Plan to finish the import.

Creating Lesson Plans

from Scratch

 

To create a lesson plan from scratch, navigate to the Grades menu andSelect Lesson Planner.

Next, select New Course Plan

Title the lesson plan, select components, and assign it to the desired course by selecting the appropriate checkboxes.

Once finished, select Create Course Plan.

Creating Lesson Plans

from Scratch

 

The newly created lesson plan will appear on the screen.

Select New Unit to begin building the lesson plan. A Unit is the “big picture” in a course plan. Lessons can be added to Units. The lesson are the pieces of a lesson, often the day to to day plans.

After typing in the desired title, select the plus sign.

The newly created unit now opens up on the screen

Creating Lesson Plans

from Scratch

 

Clicking on the dotted lines of the components will open them up so that users are able to add information.

On the right hand side of the screen, there are resources that can be added to the lesson plan

To add a resource, simply drag and drop it into the unit within the lesson plan. The follow the same process as before for adding lessons to the plan.

Curriculum

Calendar 

To see all units, lessons, and assignments in a monthly calendar, selectCurriculum Calendar from the Lesson Planner menu.

A color coded calendar will now appear, showing the start and end date for lessonsand units, as well as, assignment assigned and due dates.

Printing Lessons

 

To print lesson plans, select Lesson Plan Detail Report from the Lesson Planner menu.

Next, select the lesson plan desired and click on Print

Printing Lessons

 

A PDF version of the lesson plan will now appear. Simply select the printIcon to print the lesson plan.

Lesson Plans

 

Focus’s Lesson Planner in the LMS platform makes creating lesson plans fast and easy.

In addition, Focus saves all created lesson plans for future use.

Questions ??

Kori WatkinsSoftware Trainer, Focus School Software

koriw@focusschoolsoftware.com ph: (727) 388-6049 fax: (727) 213-6999

http://www.focus-sis.org

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