Lesson Planner Basic (Mac & Windows)

• quickly add plans for one or more subjects.
• add your own subject specific learning and differentiation strategies.
• store all your digital resources including files, pictures and web sites. Open them with a couple of clicks.
• quickly learn the many powerful features in an easy to follow interface that can be used on Apple Mac and Windows systems.

Lesson Planner Mobile (Mac & Windows)

• lesson overview (aims, objectives, differentiation, learning strategies, enterprise strategies, risk assessment and notes)

• lesson content (lesson activity, programmes of study, resources, keywords and notes)

• lesson assessment (lesson assessment and student assessment)

• lesson evaluation (performance, evaluation notes, aims for next lesson)

• students (attach students to a lesson and add notes and attendance)

• student picker for randomly selecting students from your lessons student list. Great for randomly picking students to answer questions.

• easily duplicate an entire lesson plan, including attached students

• attach digital resource files to lesson plans

• add unlimited lesson plans, daily plans, timetables, students and resources

• subject specific learning aims

• subject specific differentiation strategies

• subject specific enterprise strategies

• print and PDF lesson plans, timetable, planner and students lists

• includes lesson plans report to show a summary of your plans grouped by subject, teacher, term, year, etc.

• view a lesson plans report chart that graphically displays the lesson plans summary as a pie chart (iPad only, not supported on dsktop version due to licencing restrictions)

• quickly create and send lesson plans by email

• includes a daily planner for those daily notes, reminders and lessons where a detailed lesson plan isn't required

• quickly email your daily planner content

• timetable module for storing all your lessons, create multiple timetables if you need to

• quickly select lessons on the timetable and then create lesson plans for the selected lessons

8 add your students to the student list ready for adding to lesson plans

• import existing students from Excel, CSV or tab text files (not supported on iPad version)

• create a resources list of digital resource files (stores al manner of digital files including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, pictures, movies, sound, etc)

• built in spell checker

8 includes quick search box to quickly find plans, students, etc

• powerful search engine for performing complex searches on your data

• create lesson plans directly from the daily planner

• create schemes of work and attach lesson plans to each scheme

• print or PDF schemes of work

• quickly create and send a scheme of work by email.

Lesson Planner Mobile (iPad App)

• uses iPad's intuitive interface and gesture control features

• requires free download of FileMaker Go 12 for iPad installed on iPad

• take your lessons on the move

• use iPad's native PDF and email creation features

• lesson overview (aims, objectives, differentiation, learning strategies, enterprise strategies, risk assessment and notes)

• lesson content (lesson activity, programmes of study, resources, keywords and notes)

• lesson assessment (lesson assessment and student assessment)

• lesson evaluation (performance, evaluation notes, aims for next lesson)

• students (attach students to a lesson and add notes and attendance)

• student picker for randomly selecting students from your lessons student list. Great for randomly picking students to answer questions.

• easily duplicate an entire lesson plan, including attached students

• attach digital resource files to lesson plans

• add unlimited lesson plans, daily plans, timetables, students and resources
• subject specific learning aims

• subject specific differentiation strategies

• subject specific enterprise strategies

• print and PDF lesson plans, timetable, planner and students lists

• includes lesson plans report to show a summary of your plans grouped by subject, teacher, term, year, etc.

• view a lesson plans report chart that graphically displays the lesson plans summary as a pie chart (iPad only, not supported on dsktop version due to licencing restrictions)

• quickly create and send lesson plans by email

• includes a daily planner for those daily notes, reminders and lessons where a detailed lesson plan isn't required

• quickly email your daily planner content

• timetable module for storing all your lessons, create multiple timetables if you need to

• quickly select lessons on the timetable and then create lesson plans for the selected lessons

8 add your students to the student list ready for adding to lesson plans

• import existing students from Excel, CSV or tab text files (not supported on iPad version)

• create a resources list of digital resource files (stores al manner of digital files including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, pictures, movies, sound, etc)

• built in spell checker

8 includes quick search box to quickly find plans, students, etc

• powerful search engine for performing complex searches on your data

• create lesson plans directly from the daily planner

• create schemes of work and attach lesson plans to each scheme

• print or PDF schemes of work

• quickly create and send a scheme of work by email.

Lesson Planner Advanced (Mac & Windows) - All the features of Basic plus...

Lesson Planner Advanced adds many new features to it's already impressive feature set. We've also added a few cool ways you can use Lesson Planner Advanced in your lessons. The new additions include:

• create schemes of work using standard DfES template
• add lessons to a scheme of work and fill in the lesson content
• tag lessons with either U.S. state standards or U.K. national curriculum programmes of study
• insert U.K. national curriculum attainment targets
• easily find and print lists of state standards, programmes of study and attainment targets
• lesson plans include additional page for showing state standards or programmes of study attached to the lesson
• software update version checking and download
• customised menus that are more intuitive and display dynamically depending upon which screen you are viewing
• roll over help added to fields and buttons to provide better indication about what should be entered in a field or what action clicking a button is going to perform
• pop-up calendars added to date fields to make date selection and entry really easy
• more preference options added for enabling or disabling roll over help, continuous printing, etc
• printing output now includes the option to use continuous printing or fixed printing. Continuous printing will print all lesson plan field content even if there is more content than can be displayed on screen
• New Auto Printing menu option added to allow quick and easy finding and printing of lessons and schedules
• Insert menu now includes an Insert Text option for quickly selecting and inserting hard to remember symbols such as copyright, trademark, etc and also bullets and line indents
• Timetable module now features click n tick lesson plan creation. Simply tick the lessons you want to create new plans for and have Lesson Planner Advanced create them
• Timetable menu includes a Generate Lesson Plans option that allows for creation of new lesson plans directly from the timetable
• View menu includes options for selecting the various Lesson Planner Advanced modules
• New menu items include keyboard shortcuts for quickly selecting them
• Lesson Planner Advanced fully supports creating PDF files from any screen with the new Save/Email As PDF menu item
• Lesson plans, timetables, schedules and all other screens can be saved as PDF files. The option to attach the created file to a new email message is also included
• Send Mail has been added to allow the creation of quite comprehensive emails from within Lesson Planner Advanced using existing data
• Find matching option added to right click contextual menu for quick and easy searches on field content or selected text
• Email the content of any field using right click and Export Field Contents
• Spell checking is now visual, misspelled words are underlined as you type, exactly the same as MS Word
• Find tomorrow's lessons and schedule menu items added
• Duplicate selected lesson plans menu
• Lesson summary option that syncs with items list
• Header and footer info option added to items list
• Lesson Planner Advanced now offers mouse wheel support for scrolling through records and fields

We feel that this is the most comprehensive release of Lesson Planner Advanced yet. Not only adding many more great features but also making the software easier and more intuitive to use.

No other lesson planner offers the feature set, cross-platform compatibility or power, combined with ease of use, that Lesson Planner Advanced does.

Already using lesson planning software?

Tried some of the other software in the past?

Comparing different lesson planning software before deciding on which one to purchase?

Ask yourself...

• Is there an iPad version for mobile lesson planning?

• Do they provide an easy to use interface?

• Can you add unlimited lesson plans, timetables and schedule items?

• Can the software expand as your needs grow from single user to network version?

• Can they provide a bespoke version for your school at reasonable cost if required?

• Can the software store digital files as lesson resources?

• Does it work on Mac & Windows platforms?

• Can it be networked across your school?

• Do they have satisfied customers using their product all over the world?

• Can you share data using PDF and email?

• Can you view multiple plans, timetables or schedules in multiple windows?

• Will your staff be able to use it easily?

• Is the development team supported by a global multi-million pound company or are they a small outfit who might not be in business next year?

• Is the software designed and developed by teachers for teachers?

• Do they offer email and online support?

• Is the software available as an open source option that allows you to modify the look and feel of the database as well as add extra fields, change the layouts, etc? In fact, modify the database to match your requirements exactly.