Building Your Planbook
Dates, periods, orientation and everything that shapes the grid.
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Planbook basic options
Name, school year dates, periods per day and rotation — the four settings every planbook has.
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Planbook advanced options
Title, day title, orientation, title period and which days of the week your planbook shows.
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Add, edit, and delete periods
Change how many periods your planbook has — and which ones disappear when you reduce the count.
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Reorder periods
Drag periods into the order you actually teach them.
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Rename a period or the title row
Turn on the title period, then type names like "Reading" or "Homeroom" into it.
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Rotating and A/B day schedules
Set up A/B days, A/B weeks, or any cycle from 3 to 12 days.
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Rotation labels
Show "Day A" or "Day 1" in your grid by using the first period as a label row.
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Set up off days, holidays, and breaks
Mark days you don't teach — one at a time, a whole break, or the US holiday list.
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Change your planbook's orientation
Days across the top, or days down the side — and what changes when you switch.
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Copy a planbook
Reuse last year's plans as the starting point for a new year — and how entries get matched up.
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Start a new school year
Create a fresh planbook each year rather than editing last year's.
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Archive a planbook
Move an old planbook out of your list without deleting it — plans stay readable.
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Manage multiple planbooks
Run several planbooks at once, switch between them, and what the planbook limit means.
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Change your planbook layout after the year starts
Which structural settings are safe to change mid-year, and which need care.