Work with the Class Schedule

The Class Schedule allows you to easily view and edit the start dates, end dates, and time availabilities that have been set for your activities.

From the Class Homepage, you can access the Class Schedule, which is a graphical representation of your activity availabilities that were initially defined using the Content Repository.

Changes made on your Class Schedule update in real-time within your class.

View activities on the Class Schedule

To view an activity's defined dates and times:

Click Edit Class Schedule on the Class Homepage.
Hover your cursor over a scheduled item to display its scheduling details, which include the item name, start date and time, and end date and time.

The Class Schedule itself displays the following elements:

Unit column — Panes to group your activities into units.
Activity bar with arrows — Activity without a defined date range.
Activity bar with rounded ends — Activity with a defined date range.
Current date — Vertical line to identify today's date.
Force Grade Date — Square to identify an activity's Force Grade Date (visible if defined as an activity property).
Feedback Date — Circle to identify an activity's Feedback Date (visible if defined as an activity property).

Buttons for changing the view of the Class Schedule

To modify the view of the Class Schedule, you can use the following buttons:

Jump to Date — Reveals a drop-down calendar to select a date to focus on.
Default View — Restores the view set in your Class Details.
Zoom — Zoom in or zoom out to change the date resolution.

Edit activities on the Class Schedule

Any item on the Class Schedule can be edited.

Buttons for editing the Class Schedule

To edit items on the Class Schedule, you can use the following buttons:

Undo — Reverses the most recent change.
Redo — Returns the most recent change (only active after Undo has been used).
Select All — Drop-down list where you can choose all items of a specific type to be selected.
Edit Selected — After selecting items, you can choose to change the dates or times of that selected set of items in bulk.

Select items to edit on the Class Schedule

On the Class Schedule:

Unselected items are blue.
Clicking on an item selects it and turns it orange.
Clicking on the empty background of the Class Schedule deselects an item.

The Select All button can be used in several ways by selecting multiple items to move by clicking and dragging:

Click the body of the Select All button to select all items on the Class Schedule to be moved in bulk (Example — roll-over of all class activities to a new semester).
Click the Select All drop-down list to select all items of a specific type to be moved in bulk: Activities with Start and/or End Dates — only activities with assigned dates (horizontal rounded bars) are selected; Feedback Dates — all Feedback Date items are selected; Force Grade Dates — all Force Grade Date items are selected.

Edit the date range length of an activity

Hover your cursor over the left or right end of a selected item to reveal the bidirectional cursor.
Click-and-drag the left or right end of the activity bar to resize (stretch or compress) the activity's date range.

Edit the date range span of an activity

Hover your cursor over the body of a selected item to reveal the multidirectional cursor.
Click-and-drag the body of the activity bar to relocate the activity's date range while maintaining its date range length.

Edit Selected button

The Edit Selected button can be used to precisely edit activity dates and times in bulk (Example — roll-over of all class activities to a new semester).

After selecting a set of items on the Class Schedule, you can use the Edit Selected drop-down list and select Move Dates. The Move Selected Dates window appears where you can define how you want your selected item(s) to be moved:

The number of time units to move, based on the time unit you select.
The unit of time (days is the default) you would like to use to move your activity (days, minutes, hours, weeks, months, years).
Choose to move the activity forward or backward in time.
Clicking the Move Dates button applies your changes.
The updated start date and end date of the activity are shown based on your selections above.

After selecting a set of items on the Class Schedule, you can also use the Edit Selected drop-down list and select Move Times. The Time Selection window appears where you can define how you want your selected item(s) to be moved:

Start time
End time
Clicking the Set Times button applies your changes.