on the Meetings page for an individual child, have the lesson box's dropdown only show children for whom the lesson is already planned.
I stumbled onto the 'Meetings' tab on the pages for individual Children. I LOVE that this could potentially be the bridge from recording student conferences to planning a balanced week of lessons for that child while simultaneously planning for the whole week for the class. I am so stoked!
I came across several bugs, however, when trying to use the Meetings page and dragging lessons to certain days. It would help a TON if the dropdown inside a lesson box only listed children that are already planned to receive it, with an option to type in a new name if desired. There were bugs in trying to move or remove a lesson once it had been dragged, and bugs in removing a student that had been accidentally chosen to join the lesson. Also, when adding a student, if more than one student's name starts with the same letter, e.g., Steve and Stan, as soon as I type 'S,' 'Stan' pops in and there's no way to type in or choose 'Steve.'
This feature has so much potential for streamlining the overall arc of our record-keeping. You already connect observations and lesson planning via the Activity page; I look forward to Meetings connecting student conferences and planning more efficiently and fluidly. Thank you!!
Not exactly what you asked for, but thanks for the feedback. You now get a much easier to use dropdown and you can see which children have the lesson planned and choose them or children that don’t have the lesson planned. Check it out!
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Paige, let's talk more about this. We are just getting ready to announce this new feature, and I'm curious about the bugs you're seeing. I know we've fixed a couple that I know of, and one since. But I want to make sure we addressed all the things you're talking about.
For starters, I'm not sure what you mean by the lesson box's dropdown. On the meeting's page, you can add a lesson by a dropdown after you click "Add Lesson". But you can't add additional children to that lesson, it only shows the lessons for the child you are looking at.
On the lesson plan page (Progress + Plan -> Lesson Plan), you can see your whole class. There you can click on a lesson, and there is a dropdown that shows children. However, that dropdown is meant to add children that are NOT planned to have that lesson, choosing the dropdown plans the lesson for them.
I do see the behavior where you start typing someone's name and it chooses them immediately. At this point, we want that to be mouse driven, though if that's important enough we could make it work for keyboard too. At this point, I was trying to keep it simple and get it out.
Would you call me at your earliest convenience at (413) 353-2761? I want to resolve this stuff and then let people know it's in there!