About Student Planner

In this guide, you will learn

• About the Student Planner
• How to create & manage the information on your student planner
• How to customize and navigate the student planner

About the Student Planner

The Student Planner is a central tool for managing assignments, goals, events, and attendance. The events, assignments, and goals created here will appear for the student on his Student Portal.

Assignment and goal submissions also appear on the student planner and can be opened, approved, and graded.

Accessing the Student Planner

You can access the Student Planner in the following ways:

• Left Navigation Bar: Go to Student Planner in the left navigation panel.
• Classroom: In your classroom, access it under the Student Planner tab.

Creating & Managing the Information on the Student Planner

Once you’re in the Student Planner, you can create and manage various tasks related to assignments, goals, events, and attendance. Here’s an overview of what you can do:

1. Create and Edit Assignments, Assignment Sets, and Goals
2. Modify Assignments, Sets, and Goals
3. Print Assignments, Sets, and Goals
4. Manage Student Submissions
5. Create Events
6. Record Attendance

View other help pages for more information about these tasks.

Modifying Assignments and Goals

You can modify assignments and goals directly on the student planner.

• Edit via Right-Click: Right-click on an assignment to access editing options such as Edit, Copy, Shift, or Delete.
• Drag-and-Drop: Drag the assignment to another date to reschedule it.
• Bulk Editing via List View: Change to the List View via the button at the top of the page and select many assignments to edit at once.

Managing Student Submissions

The student planner provides a convenient location to quickly monitor your students' assignment and goal progress.

1. Go to the Planner and ensure that the View Option "Show Submissions" is checked. This will display a list of all students given an assignment or goal, and their status with that assignment or goal.
2. Check the assignment status based on the color of the submission symbol next to the student's name:
   • Empty or gray: Assignment is still incomplete.
   • Yellow: Submission is awaiting your review.
   • Green: Assignment is submitted and approved.
   • Purple: The assignment was marked for redo.
   • Gray N/A: The assignment was excused.
3. Goals will have a circle showing the progress percentage, with the color indicating the status of the goal submission (see above).
4. Click on any of these symbols to open the submission modal. Here, you can leave feedback, approve the submission, or request a redo.

Recording Attendance

You can keep attendance for any event, activity, or general attendance schedule needed directly on the student planner. Simply find the day and attendance event, click on the red Take Attendance section, and record attendance for that event as usual.

General attendance and event attendance schedules will appear at the top of the student planner. Class activities that require attendance will be interspersed with assignments, depending on the time for which they were set.

Customizing and Navigating Your Student Planner

Here’s how to filter, sort, and customize the information on your student planner:

View Options

The View Options dropdown allows you to customize how the student planner looks and which assignments are visible.

• Group By: Choose whether to group assignments by classroom, course, or subject.
• Filters: You can filter by classroom, subject, course, or student. Adding a filter will show only assignments and activities within that category.
• More Options: Customize your view further to display the specific information you need.

"Go To" Buttons

To jump between weeks and months in your calendar, use the Go To dropdown and arrows at the top of the page.

Term Dropdown

Your assignment calendar will display the term currently active in your Spark platform. You can switch to view other terms using the Term dropdown at the top of the page. If assignments are not appearing on the calendar, it may be due to an incorrect term being selected.

Week View/List View

Assignments, activities, and attendance can be viewed in the calendar format (Week View) or in a list (List View). To switch between these views, use the Week View/List View button at the top of the page.