Latest News from My Lesson Planner
Keeping you up to date on all the great new features we are constantly adding to My Lesson Planner.
January 25, 2012 - Progress Monitoring / RTI Updates
Various enhancements and usability features have been added to the Progress Monitoring / RTI application. Feel free to test them out and send us your feedback.
Also, text now copied from outside sources such as a website, or MS Word, or other rich-text sources will now default to pasting into the Lesson Plan Text Editor as plain-text to prevent the rich-text features from inadvertently modifying the placement of your lesson plan template items.
January 11, 2012 - Website Update
A trash can icon has been added to the Calendar Workspace. Simply drag+drop a lesson plan onto the calendar and you will be prompted to permanently delete the plan. This was a commonly requested feature from our teachers and we are happy to accommodate you.
A bug in the Attendance Tracking feature that was doubling missed attendance on days with multiple lesson plans has been corrected.
Additional enhancements to the new Subject View that lists the days across the top have been implemented.
January 4, 2012 - Website Update
Printer and PDF icons have been added to the Weekly View of your Daily Lesson Plans.
We have also color-coded the Cancel and Save buttons on the Lesson Block edit page to help you more easily identify and distinguish the buttons.
A new view has been added to the Subject Lesson Plan. You now have an option to see your Days of the week across the top instead of along the side of the lesson plan.
November 16, 2011 - Guided Tours
We have added a new feature to the website called Guided Tours. These live tutorials will now be available on select pages as an enhancement to your self-training options.
They are designed to highlight specific, important details and features of a page and explain their usage in easy-to-understand terms.
Look for the Guided Tour Icon – 
– on your top-menu to see it in action.
November 2, 2011 - Website Update
The Workspace Calendar has been enhanced to show the Name and Picture of the teacher you are viewing when you have selected a teacher from your View Group or a Principal’s Teacher Listing.
Also, when you view a lesson plan directly from clicking a link from the Workspace Calendar – and then delete that lesson plan, you will be returned to the Calendar Workspace instead of the Lesson Plan tab.
When you copy a lesson plan, any attachments tied to a lesson block will now also be copied.
October 27, 2011 - Website Updates
Copying Subject Lesson Plans now works via the View Groups functionality.
You can now also record information about your student’s parents. Great for keeping their contact and other information handy.
August 25, 2011 - Priority Updates
We have added Priority Updates to announce changes and new features. You won’t have to look for them. They will show up when you need them. We hope they are helpful to you so that you can enjoy and utilize all that My Lesson Planner has to offer. Let us know how you like this new feature. We love to hear from our teachers!
My Lesson Planner Support Staff
August 18, 2011 - New Lesson Block Editing Icon
We have just added a new feature to My Lesson Planner that cleans up the left margin area of your lesson and information blocks. Just mouse over the small knob icon and you will see all of your other editing icons. The click and drag arrows are beside the editing icon so you can still click and drag a block to another place in your lesson plan.
If you have any questions, or if you have any problems with this new feature, just email us.
My Lesson Planner
Customer Support Team
August 8, 2011 - CCSS Updates
The CCSS standards have been updated to show the format most commonly seen when referencing the Common Core Standards. (Ex: Math OA.5.1, Math.G.CO.1, English W.5.1a) If you can’t see the CCSS standards, make sure your Preferences show you have marked National Standards to show. Then click on NS, then CCSS, and you will see your grade level and standards. If you experience any problems, or if you need any help making sure the CCSS standards show on your lesson plans, just email us.
May 10, 2011 - Save to PDF
The option to save your Lesson Plans to PDF has been added to the website. It now works faster and looks better than it did before too.
As always, send us your feedback on this feature and if you have any suggestions for website improvements – send those our way as well.
My Lesson Planner Staff
May 4, 2011 - Teacher View Groups
We have opened up the new Teacher View Group functionality to all teachers. This is a new and easy way to allow groups of teachers to collaborate when lesson planning.
View Groups allow you to give other My Lesson Planner users access to view or edit your Lesson Plans. You can allow other teachers to access your lesson plans by clicking on the Manage tab, and then selecting the My View Group option on the left-side menu.
You can only grant the ability for other teachers to view or edit your own lesson plans. If you would like to be able to view or edit another teachers plans, they will have to grant you access under their own view group.
Try out the new feature and send us your feedback to help us improve upon it. And let us know if you have any questions!
My Lesson Planner Staff
April 9, 2011 - Lunch Counts
Preliminary support for collecting lunch counts has been added to the Attendance Feature.
Attendance requires you to setup the “Classrooms” feature and then add students to assign to your classrooms. It is an optional feature of My Lesson Planner.
Feel free to send us feedback on this new feature and we will refine it with enhancements along the way.
My Lesson Planner Support
March 17, 2011 - Lesson Plan Wizard
We have created an easy-to-use Lesson Plan Wizard to help walk you through the process of creating your lesson plans.
Look for the wizard icons on the Workspace and also integrated directly into the lesson planning process.
We are always working to make the lesson planning process as easy and streamlined as possible. Feel free to send us your feedback on this new feature.
My Lesson Planner Staff
March 16, 2011 - Same Week Subject + Daily Plans
A fix has been implemented to allow Daily and Subject lesson plans to better co-exist within the same week. Previously, in some instances, creating both in the same week could cause a mis-match between the two types of lesson plans. This shouldn’t happen now.
Also, some minor formatting enhancement have been made to the Lesson Plan.
My Lesson Planner Staff
March 13, 2011 - Arkansas CTE Standards Updates
These Arkansas Family and Consumer Sciences CTE standards were recently updated:
Child Care Guidance, Management, and Services
Housing and Interior Design
Clothing Management
You may need to reattach standards to your lesson plans if you would like them to show in your standards usage reports. We apologize for any inconvenience for those of you who have attached standards previous to this update.
If you see other standards that need our attention, please contact us.
My Lesson Planner Support Staff
March 11, 2011 - Fullscreen Notes
If you need more room to type your Lesson Plan Notes, be sure to utilize the fullscreen toggle button on your Rich-Text Editor toolbar:
February 23, 2011 - Abbreviated Standards
Arkansas K-8 teachers now have an additional way to search their standards.
You can now use an abbreviated search to find the SLE you want to attach to your lesson plan.
To enable this option, simply go to your Preferences page and enable “Show Abbreviated Standards”.
Then, when you view your lesson plans, the standards listed will be abbreviated using the Arkansas Standard Format.
February 12, 2011 - Server Maintenance Complete
Thank you for bearing with us during our routine scheduled maintenance this weekend. You should be noticing an improvement in overall speed at this time. We continually monitor server load to ensure we are providing an optimum level of service for our Teachers.
As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
My Lesson Planner Staff
January 28, 2011 - AR CTE Marketing Standards
The Arkansas Marketing CTE standards have been updated to allow you to click on both the knowledge and the application standards. These standards were re-entered from scratch to make sure both skills were able to add to lesson plans, so it will likely affect your standards usage reporting. If you are wanting to run reports showing standards usage that tie back to the lesson plans where the standard was taught, you will need to go into each of your past lesson plans and re-attach your standards. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes our Marketing teachers. Our goal is always to minimize the affects on past lessons when we make updates to standards, but this was an unavoidable outcome. If you would like some assistance in reattaching your standards, just email us, and we will be glad to reattach them for you.
Thanks to Jackie in El Dorado for letting us know these standards were not entered correctly.
My Lesson Planner
Customer Support Team
January 22, 2011 - Arkansas CTE Standards
Travel and Tourism has been added to the Arkansas CTE standards, and the standards for Sports and Entertainment Marketing have been updated and placed in the Business Category.
My Lesson Planner Support Staff
January 9, 2011 - Pocahontas Math and Science
The Pocahontas Math and Science Learning Skills have been added to My Lesson Planner. To get them to show on your lesson plans, go to Preferences (small knob icon on the top right), make sure the Show Pocahontas Math and Pocahontas Science is toggled on, and toggle off the ones you don’t want to see, and click SAVE. If you don’t save your preferences, they won’t show even if they are defaulted to show.
- LA Unified AEMP Strategies
The AEMP Access Strategies have been added to My Lesson Planner for LA Unified. To get them to show on your lesson plans, go to Preferences (small knob icon on the top right), make sure the Show AEMP Access Strategies is toggled on, and toggle off the new components you don’t want to see, and click SAVE. If you don’t save your preferences, they won’t show even if they are defaulted to show.
January 2, 2011 - Happy New Year!
We want to wish all of you a very happy and successful 2011! We will be adding some new features for you this year and tweaking some of the features that are already in place. Keep watching the latest news for information on new updates.
December 9, 2010 - AR Standards Update
Small changes were made to some of the Arkansas 9-12 Language Arts standards in all grades and all strands to make them current. Also, the Oral Communications standards have been changed to Oral Comm – Speech, to help to alleviate some confusion between these standards and the Language Arts standards.
My Lesson Planner strives to have the most current standards for our teachers. If there are standards that need updating, please contact us to let us know.
My Lesson Planner Support Team
November 16, 2010 - Track Attendance
You can now easily jump from the Workspace Calendar to the Attendance Tracking application. Simply click a day on the calendar and choose the Track Attendance option.
The attendance tracking page will be loaded with the date you selected.
November 8, 2010 - Personal Calendar Events
Enhancements have been added to the Workspace Calendar to display begin and end times (if entered) when you mouseover an event. Also, clicking a personal calendar event will now direct you to the management page for that specific event.
October 29, 2010 - Standards Not Used
The Standards Not Used Report has been revised to integrate your School’s Curriculum Map or Pacing Guide (if your school has purchased that feature).
This is a quick and easy way to match up the standards you have not yet taught with the standards your school or district has outlined should be taught in a specific quarter.
If you have any further suggestions on reporting enhancements, or if you would like to request a new report – simply let us know!
My Lesson Planner Staff
October 28, 2010 - AR Standards Changes
Changes have been made to several subjects in the Arkansas standards. Below is a list of updates or added standards. Please let us know if you experience any problems or are seeing inconsistencies with the standards.
K-8 7th and 8th Grade Social Studies (updates)
K-8 8th Grade Social Studies – Arkansas History (newly added– AR History standards are still available in 7th Grade Social Studies)
CTE Marketing (updates)
CTE Computerized Business Accounting (updates)
CTE Accounting II (updates)
9-12 Oral Communication (newly added)
9-12 Economics (updates)
October 1, 2010 - Alternate Layouts
Today we have pushed out a new feature on the Daily Lesson Plan to allow you to choose an alternate layout for your lesson plans. Great for reduced printing!
Please test out this new feature by selecting a layout from the new dropdown located at the top of your daily lesson plan.
Be sure to send us your feedback and let us know if you have any suggestions on additional layouts.
September 20, 2010 - Training Videos
Training videos are being added to the Training Manual. Check back often for newly added videos
September 6, 2010 - Template Changes
At My Lesson Planner, we are always looking for ways to further streamline the lesson planning process.
In the past, your Lesson Plan Templates showed up in your calendar and history right along with your other Lesson Plans. Some teachers were inadvertently making changes to these templates or moving/copying them for use elsewhere in their lesson planning – not realizing this affected the template.
In order to reduce confusion, your Lesson Plan templates will no longer show up on the calendar or in your history. They are all now listed on the “Manage” in the Lesson Plan section. So, if you need to make a change to your template, start by going to the Manage tab and you can edit your template from there.
My Lesson Planner Support
July 20, 2010 - Welcome to the all new My Lesson Planner!
We’ve redesigned the website from the ground up to make it faster and easier to use.