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Lesson Planning With CIITS
Created By: Nick Brooks Wolfe County Schools
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Learning Targets
I can:
①Log into CIITS.
②Plan a lesson using the CIITS program.
③Schedule the lesson I created using the CIITS calendar.
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Step 1 – Logging Into CIITS
• Go to the CIITS homepage at ciits.kyschools.us (no www. at the
beginning)
• Select your school district from the drop-down menu
• Enter your username Your email address
([email protected])
• Enter your password – If you have forgotten your
password, click on the link and they will email it to you.
• Click “Sign In”
http://www.
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Your CIITS Homepage
The blue bar across the top will be found on every page you
visit. You can use it to get to other pages and tools on CIITS.
Clicking the little red house will return you to this page.
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Step 2: Planning the Lesson
• 2 ways to get into the Planner: – From your homepage,
click on the “Planner” icon in the middle of the page.
– From any page on CIITS, move your cursor over “Classrooms” on
the blue bar.
• Select “Lesson Planner” (third option from left)
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Step 2: Planning the Lesson
• The lesson planner homepage looks like a calendar. – You can
select a daily,
weekly or monthly view.
– In the weekly view, you can select which classes you want to
see on the calendar, as well as a personal calendar.
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Step 2: Planning the Lesson
• To begin planning a lesson, we click on the “Create Materials”
icon. It looks like a blank piece of paper with a green plus
sign.
• From the pop-out menu, select “Lesson Plan”.
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Step 2: Planning the Lesson
• The Create New Lesson Plan screen will take you through a 5
step process. – Section 1 is required to set up
the lesson plan file, but the actual lesson planning will come
in Sections 2 and 3.
• In Section 1, you must enter a Title, Subject, Grade Range,
and Description.
• You can also enter a time frame in minutes, hours, days or
weeks. – The duration of the lesson can be
easily changed later
• Click on “Save and Continue” to proceed to Section 2.
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Step 2: Planning the Lesson • In Section 2, you select the
standards that will be addressed in the lesson.
• CIITS will automatically bring up the standards for the
subject and grade level you selected in Step 1. You can get to
other standards from the drop down menus.
• Click on the plus signs to expand a category. The minus signs
will collapse an expanded category.
• Click on the boxes to select as many standards as needed.
• Click “Save and Continue”
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Step 2: Planning the Lesson
• Section 3 allows you to describe the lesson.
• The district template has several sections. You can use as
many or as few of these sections as you like.
• You can also upload a file if you have the lesson plan already
typed and saved.
• “Save and Continue”
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Step 2: Planning the Lesson
• At this point, the basic lesson plan is done. Sections 4 and 5
are optional.
• Section 4 allows you to link materials (worksheets, websites,
etc.)
• Section 5 allows you to check “characteristics of highly
effective teaching and learning.”
• You can view the completed lesson plan by clicking on “View
Material” in the bottom left corner.
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Step 2: Planning the Lesson
• From the “View Materials” screen, there are several
options.
• If you would like to print or save a copy of the lesson plan,
click on “Create PDF”
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Step 3: Scheduling the Lesson
• Now that your lesson plan is created, you need to schedule it
on your calendar. There are 2 options for doing this.
• The first way is to click on “Schedule” from the options on
the right. A calendar will pop up.
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Step 3: Scheduling the Lesson
• Above the Calendar, select the appropriate class section from
the drop down menu.
• Click on the date you plan on starting the lesson.
• Click on “Save and Go to Planner”
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Step 3: Scheduling the Lesson
• The second way of scheduling the lesson is to go back to the
Planner like we did at the very beginning. – Move the cursor
over
“Classrooms” on the blue bar, then select “Lesson Planner”
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Step 3: Scheduling the Lesson • From the Lesson Planner
screen, select the class section you want to schedule the lesson
for.
• Click on “Schedule Materials” on the left side of the calendar
(looks like a little calendar with a plus sign).
• Click and Drag the lesson on to the appropriate date on the
calendar.
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Scheduling Tips • To copy a lesson to a
new date: – Simply drag and drop the
lesson to the new date.
• To copy a lesson to multiple sections: – select the sections
to
view in the calendar (must be in weekly view),
– then simply drag and drop the lesson to the new sections.
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Scheduling Tips • To remove a lesson
from the planner: – Move the cursor over
the lesson title.
– Click on the “trash can”
• To change the length of a lesson: – Move the cursor over
the lesson title.
– Click on the black bar at the beginning or end of the lesson
title.
– Drag the bar as many days as necessary.
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THAT’S IT!
• Experiment…play around…YOU AREN’T GOING TO BREAK IT!!!
– AND IF YOU DO, SOMEBODY CAN FIX IT!
