How do I edit a lesson plan?

Lesson plans in Simulise can only be edited when:

• You are one of the authors of the assignment.
• You are an administrator.

Lesson plans can be fully edited as long as students have not yet started any of the included assignments.

What can always be edited in a lesson plan:

• The title of the lesson plan.
• The description of the lesson plan.
• The start date and deadline of the lesson plan.
• The other settings of the lesson plan.

What can be partially edited once students have started working on the lesson plan:

• If one student has begun one of the assignments within the lesson plan, that specific assignment, including its start date, deadline, deletion, and repositioning, can no longer be edited.
• Adding a new assignment: You can always add a new assignment to the lesson plan, but this assignment cannot be placed in the first position.

How to delete a specific assignment from a plan

If you want to remove a specific assignment from a lesson plan but can't do so because a student has already completed it within that plan, we recommend first copying the lesson plan and then editing it. If this is not possible or desired, the only way to remove the assignment from the lesson plan is by deleting it from the assignment library. This action will have the following consequences:

• All results achieved for this assignment, including those outside of the lesson plan, will be deleted. This includes any existing connections with the assignment.
• The assignment will be removed from the lesson plan, and students will no longer be able to complete it.

What can I still change once students have started?

You can still change a lesson plan after it has started. One restriction: you can no longer add assignments before or between assignments that students have already done. You can add them after those assignments.

When does the next assignment become available?

When you hand out a lesson plan, the student immediately sees all assignments:

• The first assignment has the status Not started.
• All other assignments have the status Not yet available.

Once the student submits the first assignment, the next one is automatically made available with the status Not started. A student can never move on without submitting the previous assignment.

Does an assignment have a start date? Then the student can only start it once the start date is reached, even if the previous assignment has already been submitted.

What can you do as a teacher?

• Make the next assignment available: review the previous assignment, with or without a review. The next assignment then becomes available. See How do I return an assignment or change a review?.
• Let a student skip an assignment: review that assignment in advance, even if the student hasn't done anything yet. When the student then submits the previous assignment, they automatically move on to the one after it.

Good to know

A lesson plan only ever has one assignment available at a time. Do you want students to work on several assignments at once? Put those assignments in a choice group.

Reuse a lesson plan

You can hand out a lesson plan again, for example to a new group in a new school year. Does the lesson plan contain start dates or deadlines? Then copy the lesson plan, change the dates in the copy and hand out the copy.

Disconnect a group

If you disconnect a group from a lesson plan, it works the same as with an assignment: the lesson plan disappears for the students of that group, but assignments with the status Being Reviewed or Done remain. Student results are not lost. See also How do I hand out an assignment?.

After saving, you see the lesson plan with your changes straight away.

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