The Schedule

The Schedule is a kind of calendar-based session management tool and database in one.

CREATING A SESSION FROM SCRATCH

To create your first session, you need to click on the “Add a New Session” button in the middle of the screenshot above on the right.

A SESSION IN PROGRESS: SCHEDULE VIEW

If a session you have created is in progress, you can see the enter button to the right of its description in the middle of the Schedule.

SESSION INFO at a GLANCE

By fdefault, the schedule is designed to display “compact view”. This is done to avoid info overload and to digital clutter.

However, if you need to see more information about each session in the schedule, you can tick off some or all of the checkboxes below the “Add a New Session” button.

Do experiment with the checkboxes to ensure you see what you really need: not more, not less.

The ENTER Button

Both you and your students (or your live web-based event attendees) can leave and re-enter the session as often as you wish while the session in question is still in progress. For practical reasons, the ENTER button appears in the Schedule (just like on the Dashboard) 15 minutes before the session is set to start and disappears 15 minutes after the session is set to finish.

You can EDIT, CANCEL/UNCANCEL and COPY sessions at any time using the respective buttons in the Schedule.

The Summary Button

The green-coloured summary button appears to the right of the ENTER button in the Schedule the very moment the session in set to finish. This means that for the next 15 minutes both the ENTER button and the Summary button are active. Clicking on the Summary button will take the user to the session summary, which normally contains all the LO (learning objects) used during the session, the session notes, and/or the homework (if the teacher set some)

A FINISHED SESSION: SCHEDULE VIEW

Once the session is really over, the ENTER button disappears from the Schedule completely, and the session participants can no longer access the session-in-progress view. The tutor can, however, re-activate the session by resetting the time the session must finish. To get to the time and date settings of the session, the tutor clicks on the EDIT button, which is to the left of the green-coloured Summary button.

ADVANCED FILTERS

To see advanced filters, click on the grey More Filters control on the right.
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You will need advanced filters once you have taught a few sessions. They will help you keep track of what you have done and/or are planning to do. To hide advanced filters, click on the Hide Filters control on the right.

SCHEDULE FILTERS: RESTORING DEFAULT SETTINGS

Please note that hiding filters does not clear (i.e. does not reset) them. To clear filters, click on the control with the letter x with a downward pointing arrow to the right of the More Filters / Hide Filters control. This will reset all filters except locked ones.