Scenarios

A scenario is one lesson's preparation. It can set the lesson's title and notes, carry files from your materials, post updates, and set a task. Nothing in it is tied to a particular student or date.

1. 01Open Scenarios and choose New scenario.
2. 02Give it a name and the language you teach that lesson in.
3. 03On the Lesson tab, say whether the title and notes should be replaced, added to, or left alone.
4. 04Add files, updates and a task on their own tabs.

Files live under Materials, separately from any scenario, so the same worksheet can sit in as many scenarios as you like. Uploading is the only thing that uses storage. Attaching a file to a scenario, and applying that scenario to a hundred lessons, costs nothing extra — it is the same file throughout. You can rename a material and say what it is; the original filename is always kept beside the name you give.

Open the lesson and choose Apply a scenario. Nothing is written until you have seen exactly what it will do.

1. 01Pick the scenario.
2. 02Check the preview: the title and notes it will write, and every file, update and task.
3. 03Turn off anything you do not want on this lesson.
4. 04Decide which of them should email the students — one scenario can otherwise send three separate emails.
5. 05Apply.

A lesson holds one scenario at a time. Open Apply a scenario again and you can take it back or unlink it. Taking it back restores scenario changes to the title and notes only where the text has not been edited since, deletes the files, takes the updates down, and removes the task — unless a student has already opened or answered it, in which case the task is archived instead and they keep everything they handed in. Unlinking leaves everything exactly as it is and only frees the lesson for another scenario. That is usually the right choice once the emails have gone, because nothing here can unsend them.

A scenario is written in one language, because students read its notes, updates and task. If you apply one to a lesson that looks like it is taught in the other language, we say so — and let you do it anyway, since only you know.