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Lesson Schedules is a new LDS.org tool that allows you to schedule lessons for priesthood and auxiliary organizations – for example, to schedule your Sunday School, Relief Society, and Elders Quorum classes. Lesson Schedules is now officially released and available on the LDS.org Tools menu. You can start announcing and using Lesson Schedules in your wards.
Lesson Schedules is now available by going to Tools > Lesson Schedules.
Viewing Lesson Schedules
To view Lesson Schedules, go to Tools > Lesson Schedules on LDS.org. When prompted, log in with your LDS Account.
On the Lesson Schedules home page, you can select the check boxes next to the classes you want to see. The scheduled lesson for that class appears, with direct links to the lesson material.
Default Schedules
By default, Lesson Schedules appears with standard classes for each organization – High Priests, Elders Quorum, Relief Society, Sunday School, Primary, and Nursery. Note that Lesson Schedules automatically populates the initial lesson schedule without factoring in general conference, stake conference, ward conference, and holidays.
Administrators -- which include bishoprics, executive secretaries, clerks, and secretaries -- need to adjust the lesson schedules to fit their ward’s particular schedule. Administrators can also add or remove classes as needed. For instructions on adjusting the lesson schedule, click the Help button, or go directly here: https://tech.lds.org/wiki/Lesson_Schedules
Availability and Administration
Lesson Schedules is available at the ward level only. As such, bishoprics, clerks, executive secretaries, and website administrators are administrators by default. Organization leaders (including their counselors and secretaries) have administrative rights to create classes and lesson schedules for their organization.
Lesson Schedules is not available at the stake level, but stake leaders and clerks have administrative rights for their own ward so that they can learn how the application works and provide training and support to ward administrators.
Submitting feedback
To submit feedback about Lesson Schedules, go to the LDSTech Forum. Under Current and Future Technologies, in the LDS.org Web Site section, click Lesson Schedules.
Lesson Schedules replaces the old lesson scheduling features that were available on the Classic.lds.org site. |
Comments
By the way, this tool is great and we'll especially look forward to being able to add links for the TFOT and Bishopric lessons.
One of the annual Bishopric/Branch Presidency lessons for each ward/branch in our stake is on emergency preparedness. Would there be a way to add the Stake and Ward/Branch Emergency plan as an attachment for access by members here or perhaps somewhere else?
Re only editing lessons for dates in the past, can you report this issue in the LDSTech Lesson Schedules forum? tech.lds.org/.../... It might be a bug -- I'm not sure. Engineers will be more likely to see and troubleshoot the issue there.
This seems like the debate about strong federal government vs states rights. I have always been a local and states rights person.
By the way, stake administrators do have editorial control over lesson schedules for their own wards. So wards are not completely autonomous from stakes. Additionally, regardless of the technical possibilities, ward leaders should be coordinating and following direction from the stake.
The dates for unit conferences are determined by the stake, so the lessons can be planned around those dates. Also, since the annual Primary program only takes place during Sacrament Meeting there wouldn't seem to be an issue.
Perhaps, having the ability to push the schedules down from the stake to the units in addition to the units scheduling and adjusting their lessons would be a good compromise.
Librarians can have the lesson materials ready more easily, stake visitors know which lesson is being presented, etc.
Allowing the stake to push down schedules that each ward can adjust and adapt would be a very nice and helpful option in our situation.
Is it hokey? A bit. Future releases will probably provide a more elegant solution. The application was initially coded in a way that did not auto-populate classes with default schedules. But many users were perplexed to find a largely blank site, so we wanted to give them some default data that administrators could adjust.
Re inserting events in ways that allows you to overwrite or push down events, that's good feedback. Again, this is version 1.0. Maybe we'll see something more robust implemented in a later version that allows for this.
Also, are there any plans to integrate these Leason Schedules into LDS Tools and the Calendar apps?
Thanks!
I feel that this is an essential feature for using the LDS website. Otherwise using LDS.org to schedule lessons and such becomes more time consuming than I am willing to put up with.
Also iDevice and Android support for adding calendar events/lesson schedules should be a priority, otherwise I have to still write down on paper events and such planned on Sunday, only to later enter them via computer.
Sorry for double post, but -
I currently use google calendar for all of my lesson scheduling and weekly activities. This is currently much much easier and therefore my preferred tool. This is why I ask for these things.
My thoughts exactly. I thought this feature was in the LDS Tools app, but last night I learned otherwise.
Cheers,
Brother Carroll
"The teacher of the class can add lessons, as well as presidency members of the organization to which the class belongs."
"Instructors can edit the lessons for classes they teach."
Is this, in fact, the case? I asked an instructor to test this feature, and she did not see any editing features when she signed in and viewed her class's lesson schedule. She is listed as the class's instructor in Lesson Schedules.
Since Elders, High Priests and Relief Society typically follow the same lesson schedule it would be nice to be able to enter a single schedule once for all three groups. I suppose I could create a new class called "Priesthood/Relief Society" and delete the other separate classes but then the individual organizations would not be able to make adjustments to their schedule.
Maybe have a feature that allows you to copy a schedule to other classes so you only have to enter the default schedule once.
This might be how you could allow Stake administrators to enter a default schedule and copy it down to each unit in the stake. But then there's the problem with wards that removed their default classes and created their own classes. How would the system know which class to push down to at the ward level?
I use various flavors of Linux and Firefox mostly.
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