This is a step by step tutorial about creating lesson plans on the website, Progress Book.

1. Progress Book
-Lesson Plans-
A Step By Step Professional
Development Workshop
By Rachel Silasi

2. In Progress Book you will come upon a log in page. Go ahead
and type in your school log in and password and hit “Login”.
NEXT!

3. This is your main page when working with Progress Book.
Your next step is to find under Features, In the middle column,
Enter Lesson Plans
Found It!

4. This is your Lesson Plan Creator.
If you have a lesson that you have created in a word document, feel free to copy and paste it in to
the body on this page. Make sure to add a title for easy location at a later point!
Title
Body
All set!

5. Once you type in your lesson and title, hit the save button. Once
you save, you will notice that you gain options on the left side of
your screen.
Before Saving After Saving
It’s a convenient and easy way to tell if you saved your lesson
I Saved!

6. On the left side, located at the top of the blue box, you will
find a link that says Add Standards. Go Ahead and click on it!
I Clicked

7. Click on the drop down screen that says Content Area. Locate your class or
certification that the lesson pertains to.
Since I Teach Visual Art In Ohio, I am going to select
OH: (OLD) Arts – Visual Arts
Located

8. Once you select the Content Area and then the Grade Level for the lesson, you will be given a list of all the
state standards in that subject area.
Go through and check the box(es) located on the right-hand side of the standard that you will achieve with
your lesson.
Once you have selected what standards you will use, click “Add selected items” at the bottom of the page
Standard Box
Add Selected Items
Done, Done,
And Done

9. Once you clicked “Add Selected Items”, you will find all of your selected
standards on the left hand side of your page. If you see that one was added
by accident, simply click the “X” next to the standard you wish to remove.
Now would be a smart
time to click “Save” again!
I ‘m Golden

10. If you scroll down there are additional options that can be found. You can add notes
that only you can see, you can make your lessons public to all on your user site or just
your principal.
You can edit the summary to give you a more concise idea of the lesson.
Most of these are just user preferences. Play around with them!
Next Step

11. -To Schedule a lesson, go to the top of the blue rectangle and click on the tab labeled
Schedule. Once you have clicked it, you will have a scheduler that looks like this.
-Select your start and end date for the lesson and check the boxes next to the classes
you wish to apply the lesson to.
Schedule Tab
Start and end date
Class Scheduler
MAKE SURE TO CLICK
“Schedule The Lesson”
When complete
Scheduled!

12. Once you clicked schedule the lesson, this is what will come up.
If you scheduled the wrong class, check the Del? Box and Select save.
Once you are happy with your selection, you are going to learn how to search for your
lesson in the database.
Go to the top right of the page and click “Grade Book”.
Delete Lesson
On To
Grade Book

13. Once you reach this page, locate in the middle column
“Search lesson Plans”, and click on it
Located

14. There are a lot of different ways to search for a lesson.
-You can search the content area, and the grade, and the class, for a specific lesson for a class.
-You can also search just the content area, or just the Grade.
Or
Leave everything blank and hit search. That will bring up every lesson that you have created and saved.
Those are just a few of the search options, Play around and see what your search preferences are.
I Get The
Idea

15. This is the tip of the iceberg for my lesson results. As you can see I searched just the content area. From this
page I can schedule lessons, edit them, print out copies for myself or a sub, or delete them if needed. Lessons
are listed alphabetically and with the summary that you may have added previously in slide 10. if you did not
add a summary, the beginning of your lesson becomes the posted summary.
Content Area Search
Print,
Edit
Schedule
Delete
Lesson
Summary
I Found
My Lesson

16. Once done on the lesson search page, Click the Grade Book link again.
In the class list on the left, Click on the class that you scheduled your lesson
for. Mine will be ART: 5-1.
Clicked on
the Class

17. This takes you to that classes roster and class options. Go to the box on the
right side and click on the tab that says “Lessons”. This will show you what
lessons you have scheduled and the time frame you have allotted for them!
Lesson
Tab
Scheduled lessons
I see my
Lesson

18. Congratulations!
• You have just created and saved your first
lesson on Progress Book!
• You can now access this lesson year after year
and can make changes to it as needed!
• © Rachel Silasi 2012- All Rights reserved. To be used for educational purpose's only.