As part of the new Lesson Plan Review process, teachers can now add comments to their lesson plans in much the same way a person reviewing the lesson plan does. Looks for the Add Comment icon on the top-right of your lesson plan.

Previously, when utilizing the Dictionary Definition look-up feature of the Vocabulary word component, the 1st definition returned would always be the one pulled onto your lesson plan. We have now implemented a feature to show a list of the various possible definitions returned and allow you to select the one you want to include in

A new way for Principals and Curriculum Coaches to review a teachers lesson plan has been added. If you have sufficient security, visit the Reports tab and you will see a “Lesson Plan Review” link. From here, you can run a report to search the list of lesson plans you want to do. Typically, you

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These Arkansas Family and Consumer Sciences CTE standards were recently updated: Child Care Guidance, Management, and ServicesHousing and Interior DesignClothing 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

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:

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