The Planner is a month calendar for one class that holds everything you do with it: your own plan items (lectures, slide decks, case studies, activities, exams, notes) alongside the assignments your students receive. Plan items are private to you; students only ever see assignments. Use it to sketch a unit, drop Teaching Toolkit resources onto the days you'll use them, turn course sections into assignments by dragging, and copy a plan to another section you teach.
Available on: Intertwined Solo and school plans. On Free, the Planner shows what it does and which plan includes it.
Two ways in, one plan
Planner in the sidebar. Choose the class in the CLASS menu at the top right. Open in class takes you to the same plan inside the classroom.
Classrooms > your class > Coursework > Planner.
Both show the same plan. Each class has its own plan, so switch classes to see another one.
Reading the calendar
The calendar shows a month at a time; use the arrows or Today to move around. Weekends are shaded lighter but still usable. Plan items are colored by type, and assignments have a dashed edge and take the status colors from your assignments list (green for active, red for overdue, yellow for scheduled, gray for complete). The legend under the calendar lists each plan item type plus "Assignment (students see these)".
Your dashboard's This week card also lists plan items and due dates for the next seven days across all your classes.
Add something to your plan
Click + Add to plan at the top, or hover over a day and click its +.
Under What is it?, choose a type: Lecture, Slides, Case study, Activity, Exam, Note or Other.
Enter a Title (required).
Check the Day.
Optionally paste a Link to the deck, doc or case study, and add Notes for yourself.
Click Add to and the date (for example Add to Nov 12).
The box reminds you: "Only you see this. Students see assignments, not your plan." To change an item, click it, edit, and click Save. To delete it, click it and choose Remove.
Move things around
Drag any item to another day. Dragging a plan item moves it. Dragging an assignment moves its due date (keeping the same time of day) and you'll see "Due date moved to" the new day. Clicking an assignment doesn't open it for editing; the Planner reminds you that you can drag it to reschedule and manage it from the Assignments page.
Turn course sections into assignments
The panel on the right has two tabs. Course holds Course content from the courses added to this class:
Choose a course and a unit. Each section appears with a Reading chip, and a Quiz chip if it has a quiz.
Drag a chip onto a day.
This creates a real assignment straight away, for the whole class, visible to students now and due at 11:59 PM that day. The confirmation says "students can see this now". If you want it to appear for students later, or only for some students, use Create Assignment instead; see Creating an assignment.
If the panel says no course is assigned to this class yet, add one under Coursework > Assigned Courses.
Add Teaching Toolkit resources
The Toolkit tab holds Teaching resources from the Teaching Toolkit:
Choose a unit. Resources are grouped into lesson plans, slides, worksheets, case studies, exams, answer keys and more.
Drag a resource onto a day. It becomes a plan item of the matching type, with its link attached.
The small open icon on each resource opens it in a new tab so you can check it first. The toolkit's units follow the 3e curriculum and may not match your course's unit numbers. More about the toolkit in The Teaching Toolkit, Prerequisites, and other teacher resources.
Lay out a whole course
Lay out a course builds a first-draft teaching schedule from the course's own pacing.
Click Lay out a course.
Choose the Course (only courses added to this class are listed).
Set Starting, the first day of teaching.
Under Days this class meets, keep or change the days (Monday to Friday to start).
Look over the preview, which lists each day and the date range, then click Add with the number of days (for example Add 64 to plan).
Each section gets as many class days as its expected length, counting a class period as 45 minutes, and always at least one. Sections that need more than one day are labeled like "(2 of 3)". These are plan items of type Lecture; no assignments are created and students see nothing. The layout doesn't know your school calendar, so drag items off holidays and testing days afterward. You'll see "Laid out 64 teaching days" when it's done.
Important: laid-out items are removed one at a time, so check the preview before you add it.
Copy a plan to another class
Click Copy to another class.
Choose the class under Copy into.
Set From and To to the stretch you want to copy (the month on screen to start).
Set Land the first day on. Everything shifts by the same amount, so your week's shape stays the same.
Click Copy plan.
Only plan items are copied. Assignments aren't, because each class needs its own to track its own students' progress; create them in the other class separately.
Tips
Use Lay out a course once at the start of a term, then adjust by dragging. It's faster than building from scratch.
Drop the toolkit's slides and worksheets on the same days as the matching reading, so each day shows what you'll teach and what students owe.
Teach the same course in several periods? Plan one class fully, then copy it to the others.
Exams in your plan are your own record. If you also want an Intertwined quiz on that day, drag the section's Quiz chip there too.
Common questions
Can students see my plan?
No. Students see assignments only. Plan items, links and notes are yours.
If I remove a plan item, does it delete an assignment?
No. Plan items and assignments are separate. To delete an assignment, use the assignments list; see Editing, rescheduling, and deleting assignments.
Why isn't my course in the Course tab?
The Course tab and Lay out a course only offer courses added to this class. Add the course under Coursework > Assigned Courses.
I dragged a reading onto a day and got an error.
A class can have only one reading assignment per section, so a section already assigned can't be assigned again. Drag the existing assignment to the new day instead.
Can a co-instructor use the Planner for a class we share?
A class's plan belongs to the teacher who owns the class. See Co-teaching: adding instructors to a classroom.