About Student Planner

📣 Update Notice: The Student Planner was previously called "Assignments" or the "Assignment Calendar."

About the Student Planner

The Student Planner is a central hub for managing assignments, goals, events, and attendance. Everything created here appears in the student’s Student Portal, where students can open assignments and goals and submit their work.

Student submissions also appear in the Student Planner, allowing teachers to easily open, review, approve, and grade them.

You can access the Student Planner in the following ways:

• School-wide: Go to Student Planner in the left navigation panel under Learning. This planner shows all assignments and attendance for all students and classrooms in the school.
• Classroom: In your classroom, access it under the Student Planner tab. Students, assgnments, and attendance will be filtered to your classroom.

Creating & Managing Information on Your 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.

Viewing Assignments in a List

To view all assignments (whether created from a course, in a set, or a goal), click on Assignments at the top of the Student Planner, or go to one of the following places:

• School-wide list: Learning -> Assignments
• Classroom list: Classroom -> Activity -> Assignments

Once in the assignment list, you can

• Filter Assignments: Use the available filters to narrow the list by type, course, topic, subject, or student.
• Manage Courses and Sets: Use the Manage Courses or Manage Sets buttons to select, edit, and manage courses and assignment sets.
• Customize and Export the Table: Information about each assignment is displayed in the table. Use the column selection button at the top of the table to add or remove columns.To download the information displayed in the table, click the Download button at the top of the table and select CSV.