If you are starting a new Lesson Plan, you can use the Add Multiple Lesson Plan Items feature to quickly create a series of Lesson Plan items. The process outlined here shows you how to take an existing Lesson Plan item and use it to create additional entries for your plan.

See the Creating a Lesson Plan with Repeating Pattern Help Page for specific instructions on generating a plan which has a repetitive pattern of activity types, such as a math curriculum with X number of lessons, followed by a test, followed by more lessons, followed by a test, etc.

1. On the HSTOnline menu, click or touch 'Lesson Plan' under the 'Schedules and Planning' section.
2. Set the Lesson Plan and Displaying filters to view the item you want to use as the basis of this copy operation.
3. Click or touch on the item you want to use, then click or touch the Action button and choose Copy.
   • The 'Copy Assignment' form is a tabbed area: Details, Day Numbers, and
     Page/Lesson/Chapter. The active tab area will have a thick, blue underline. Click on any tab name to move to that area. You can move back and forth as many times as you need as you adjust your option settings.
   • The only required fields are: Lesson Plan and Subject/Course in the Details tab.

   

4. Details:

   Item Details: These fields will show the entries from your selected Lesson Plan item. You can change any of these fields if you like. The copies will show the new information you have entered. The original Lesson Plan item will remain unchanged. Fields and features which have been disabled in Program Options will be hidden from view in the Item Details area. The only required field in this area is the Lesson Plan and Subject or Subject/Course fields. When creating multiple Lesson Plan items, the Page/Lesson/Chapter field is completed in the last tab area so that field does not appear here.

5. Click or touch:
   • Return to Lesson Plan to cancel this process and return to the Lesson Plan view.
   • Continue to Day Numbers or the Day Numbers tab to move to the next set of options.

   

6. Day Numbers:
   • Start On: Enter the Day Number you want to start on for these items
   • Increment By: Enter the Increment you want to use. This sets the gap between Day numbers for your copied items.
   • Skip over Day Numbers that are already in use: Check this box if you have existing items in the Lesson Plan and you do not want to double-book any of the Day numbers already in use. With the box unchecked, HSTOnline will assign Day numbers according to your Start On and Increment By values without regard to Day numbers already in use in the Lesson Plan.
7. Click or touch:
   • Return to Lesson Plan to cancel this process and return to the Lesson Plan view.
   • Continue to PLC or the Page/Lesson/Chapter tab to move to the final set of options.

   

8. Page/Lesson/Chapter: There are four options for creating Page/Lesson/Chapter text for multiple Lesson Plan items: the first, is to have the same text appear in the PLC field for each Lesson Plan item created; the other three options allow you to create an auto-increment pattern for the PLC information. See the PLC Copy Options Help Page for step-by-step instructions on completing this section. Below is a brief description of each option:

   

   If you have disabled the Page/Lesson/Chapter field, the only option here will be to set the number of copies that you want to create. Enter the number of copies you want and click or touch 'Continue to Preview'.

   Same Page/Lesson/Chapter: When the PLC field is enabled this is the default selection. When you choose this option, the same text - or no text - will appear in the Page/Lesson/Chapter field of each Lesson Plan item. Enter text in the Page/Lesson/Chapter field, or leave it blank Enter the number of copies you want to create.

   1-Part Auto-Increment: Set a pattern for HSTOnline to follow where the Page/Lesson/Chapter text is incremented for each item created. In a 1-Part increment you can create entries such as: Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, etc. Pages 1-4, Pages 5-8,, Pages 9-12, etc.

   2-Part Auto-Increment: Set a pattern for HSTOnline to follow where the Page/Lesson/Chapter text is incremented for each item created. In a 2-Part increment you can create entries such as: Lesson 1.1, Lesson 1.2, Lesson 1.3, etc. Chapter 16 - Part A, Chapter 16 - Part B, Chapter 17 - Part A, etc.

   3-Part Auto-Increment: Set a pattern for HSTOnline to follow where the Page/Lesson/Chapter text is incremented for each item created. In a 3-Part increment you can create entries such as: Chapter 1: Lesson 1: Part A, Chapter 1: Lesson 1: Part B, Chapter 1: Lesson 2: Part A, etc.

9. Click or touch:
   • Return to Lesson Plan to cancel this process and return to the Lesson Plan view.
   • Continue to Preview to see the list of Lesson Plan items that will be created based on the options you have set.
10. If you choose 'Continue to Preview', HSTOnline will show you the Lesson Plan items that will be created based upon your option settings. Use this opportunity to review the items before accepting them to be added to your database.
    • The Preview will show you the new items along with any existing items in the Lesson Plan. Existing items will have a lavender background. Items will be sorted by Day number. You can group or sort the Preview list in any way you like and HSTOnline will remember those settings each time you return to the Lesson Plan Copy Preview list.
    • If the results are not what you expected, you can click or touch the Details, Day Number, or Page/Lesson/Chapter tab to reset your options and then click or touch Return to Preview to see the new results.

    

11. Once you are satisfied with the items displayed in the Preview, you can select the items you want to add to your Agenda. Click or touch the 'Select All' badge to select all the Assignments in the list. Alternatively,
    • you can click or touch the checkbox for each Assignment you want to accept.
    • you can use your mouse to click and drag over contiguous entries in the list to select those items.
    • on a touch device, you can touch and drag your finger over contiguous entries in the list to select those items.

    

12. Click or touch:
    • Return to Lesson Plan to abandon this process and return to the Lesson Plan view.
    • Accept Selected Items to add the highlighted items to your Lesson Plan.

This process allows you to copy items from one plan into another plan, while maintaining the integrity of the original Lesson Plan. If you have set up a sample Lesson Plan to follow a particular repeating pattern, you will be using this process to copy some or all of those items into the actual Lesson Plan where you will be using them with specifics for the grade level. To move items out of one plan and into another, use the Lesson Plan Multi-Edit action to change the Lesson Plan field for two or more items at the same time.

1. On the HSTOnline menu, click or touch 'Lesson Plan' under the 'Schedules and Planning' section.
2. Set the Lesson Plan and Displaying filters to view the items you want to work with.
3. Choose the Lesson Plan items you want to copy to a different Lesson Plan.
   • Click the checkbox for each item you want to change.
   • You can use your mouse to click and drag over contiguous items in the list to select those items.
   • On a touch device, you can touch and drag your finger over contiguous items in the list to select those items.
4. Click or touch the Action button and choose 'Copy to Another Lesson Plan'.
   • HSTOnline will show you how many items have been selected for copying.
5. Enter the name of the Lesson Plan you want to copy to. The Choose Lesson Plan Name field is a Smart-Entry Field.
6. Click or touch
   • Cancel to abandon the copy process and return to the original Lesson Plan.
   • Copy to copy the selected items to the Lesson Plan indicated
     • HSTOnline will take you to the Lesson Plan you are copying to.
     • The copied items will retain all of their original information, including their original Day numbers.
     • You can edit or multi-edit the copied items as needed.
     • The original Lesson Plan items will remain unchanged in the original Lesson Plan.