Lesson Planner
Plan 4-week teaching blocks by class, with technique assignment by grade and Sifu / Coach / Assistant Instructor / Instructor (Cover) / Leader role allocation per technique.
Creating a plan
- Go to Admin → Lesson Planner
- Select a class from the accordion list — each class shows the student type, day, time, and number of enrolled students
- Tap New Plan — a 4-week block is created with today's date as Week 1
- For each week, assign techniques from the curriculum (automatically filtered to the grades present in that class)
- Assign teaching roles to each technique (see below)
- Tap Save Plan
Technique assignment
Techniques shown in the planner are filtered to only those relevant to the grades of students enrolled in that class — you won't see techniques from grades that no one in the class is working towards.
Each technique row shows the grade it belongs to as a coloured sash pill.
Snakes & Cranes classes are limited to a maximum of 2 technique types per session. All other class types allow up to 3.
Staff roles
Every technique in the plan can be assigned to one or more staff members:
| Role | Colour | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Sifu | Red | Leads this technique — the senior instructor |
| Coach | Navy | Coaches this technique |
| Assistant Instructor | Red (same as Sifu) | Coaches this technique — treated the same as Coach for grouping, deliberately given Sifu's red rather than its own colour |
| Instructor (Cover) | Amber | Coaches this technique — treated the same as Coach for grouping, with its own distinct colour so a stand-in instructor is obvious at a glance |
| Leader | White (outlined) | Supports the Coach, Assistant Instructor, Instructor (Cover), or Sifu for this technique |
Tap a staff member's pill to toggle their assignment. Staff are drawn from the class's staff assignments — only instructors assigned to that class appear.
By Teacher view
Switch to By Teacher to see the plan grouped by staff member rather than by technique. This is useful for briefing your team before class:
- Sifu's techniques are listed under their name
- Coaches, Assistant Instructors, and Instructors (Cover) each own the non-Sifu techniques they are assigned to, each getting their own group
- Leaders appear as "With:" pills supporting a Sifu, Coach, Assistant Instructor, or Instructor (Cover) group
Week dates
Each week has a date picker. Week 1 defaults to today; Weeks 2–4 default to +7, +14, and +21 days. Dates are editable — adjust them to match your actual class schedule.
Saving plans
Tap Save Plan to write all four weeks and all role assignments to the database in one step. All assignments are buffered locally until you save — navigating away without saving will lose changes.
Multiple plans can be saved per class. Previously saved plans appear in the class accordion — tap one to reopen and edit it.
Printing
Two print buttons produce a clean, mat-ready layout — every week always lands on exactly one page, however dense that week's techniques get:
- A4 Print — landscape A4, one week per page. Techniques flow into columns whose count adapts to how many techniques that week has, so a light week and a dense week both use the page well.
- A5 Print — portrait A4, two weeks per page (Week 1 above Week 2, Week 3 above Week 4, and so on). Week 2 always starts at the exact halfway point of the page regardless of how much content Week 1 has, so the printed sheet can be folded in half into two A5 halves.
Both use the same underlying layout — column density, row spacing, fonts — just at different page sizes.