The planner view
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The planner is your semester at a glance — every class, every day, generated from your timetable. See what you're teaching, spot gaps in your schedule, and link lessons directly to time slots.
What is the planner?
The planner shows all of your classes across your entire semester, generated from your timetable. It's where your schedule comes to life — you can see what you're teaching, when, and link lessons to specific class slots.
Weekly vs monthly view
Toggle between Week and Month at the top of the planner.
- Monthly view — a bird's-eye view of your entire schedule. Great for seeing the big picture and spotting gaps.
- Weekly view — more detail per day, with full time slots visible.
Click into a day
In monthly view, click on any day to open a side panel with a zoomed-in view of that day. From here you can see each class slot with its time, edit classes, and link or manage lessons.
Link lessons to class slots
Linking a lesson to a class slot is called socketing — plugging a lesson into a spot on your schedule. Click on any class slot — either in the weekly view or in the zoomed-in day panel — to open it. From here you can:
- Link a lesson — select an existing lesson from your library to assign to this slot.
- Create a new lesson — create a lesson directly from the planner and link it in one step.
- View the linked lesson — if a lesson is already socketed, click the slot to open it.
- Unlink a lesson — remove a lesson from the slot. The lesson itself isn't deleted — it goes back to your library.
Rotation day labels
Each date on the planner shows its rotation day label (D1, D2, etc.) in the corner. For more scheduling strategies, see Link lessons to the planner → This makes it easy to see which rotation day falls on which calendar date.
Day options
For more granular control over a specific day, click the day options button. This is available in the weekly view or in the zoomed-in day panel from the monthly view.
Day options let you:
- Block a day — mark the day as a non-teaching day (holiday, event, etc.).
- Restart rotation — re-anchor the rotation cycle to start from this day.
- Move lessons — shift lessons to a different date.
- Edit the timetable for this day — override the base timetable schedule for this specific date only (change times, add or remove slots).
- Remove lessons — unlink lessons from this day's class slots.
Day options only affect the selected date. Your base timetable stays untouched.
New to EMStudio? Start with Plan your first lesson → for a quick walkthrough of scheduling.
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