Feel free to use the guides listed on this page when you need help with Forethought. For additional assistance, view Eduphoria Help or contact your Campus Instructional Technology Specialist, Curriculum and Instruction Specialist or Emily Bourgeois. To suggest topics not yet listed on this page, please email suggestions to Emily Bourgeois . Thanks!
Teacher Materials
Changing My Profile in Eduphoria
Each year you should update your profile to reflect your campus, grade level, subject, etc. Here's how!
Changing Your Lesson Plan Template
Change the lesson plan template for a single subject or for every subject you teach.
Team Planning vs. Sharing My Planner - Which one should I choose?
Learn which way is best for you.
Copying A Shared Plan to My Planner (the entire week)
When sharing a plan, you can copy a week's worth of plans into your planner. Here's how. It's all or none, so be careful!
Copying Individual Subjects From a Shared Planner into My Planner
You might only want to copy one subject from a shared planner...not the entire set of subjects. And you might only want to copy one day's lesson. Here's how!
Creating a Team Planner
Create one planner that can be edited by several teachers in a team.
Copying The Team Plan to My Planner
Copy your Team Plan to your own lesson planner.
I Can't Enter Text Into My Planner?
When you team or share your plans, there are times that you are unable to enter text. Find out what circumstances dictate this and/or how to enter text in a Team Planner.
Can Two People Enter Text Into The Team Planner At The Same Time?
We're working on our Team Planner. Can two of us enter text at the same time on different machines?
I Can't Rename The Subjects In My Team Planner?
You've renamed your subjects in your own planner, but when you go to the Team Planner, you can't. Why not?
Deleting a Team
Once you create a team, how do you get rid of it?
Copying One Day's Plans to Another Day
Need to move a lesson to another day because of time constraints, fire drills interrupting, assemblies, etc.?
One of My Subjects Disappeared! Why? And How Do I Get It Back?
You might have accidentally deleted a subject. Here's how to get it back.
Adding a Subject, Sub Note or Special Entry to One Day
You have accidentally deleted a subject from your daily plan….or maybe you need to add a note for a substitute. How about adding a Special Entry for that day? Here’s how to do that!
How Do I Delete A Subject/Course From One Day?
When you copy a planner to your own, it might copy more than subjects than you want. You can delete a subject/course from one day if you need to do that. Here's how.
Adding and Removing A Learning Standard (Objective) From My Lesson Plan
Adding lesson objectives is a great feature in Forethought. Here's how to add and remove them from your plan.
How Do I Remove One Subject From My Day View?
When using the Copy Wizard, it copies all subjects/courses to your planner. Unfortunately, you might only want one or two of the subjects. Copy Wizard won’t let you pick and choose. It copies all or none. Here's how to remedy that.
Can I Create Content Area Templates That Are Different For Each Subject?
What if you wanted your Lesson Plan template to look different for Language Arts? But you wanted all your Math, Science and Social Studies to appear the same?
In other words, you would like to have a content-area template for one or more of your subjects. Can you edit your template text for only ONE subject? Here’s how to do it!
Printouts
Is there a printout that includes the lesson plans AND the learning standards for that week?
Printing A List of All Learning Standards Taught
I want to get a list of all the learning standards I've covered so far in my plans. How can I do that?
Attachments
Is there a limit to the attachment file size? What if I want to attach a video?
Using Learning Standards From Other Courses
I have students from multiple grade levels in my classes, or I would like to pull in learning standards from other subject areas. How do I build my schedule to use standards from multiple courses in one entry?
I Can't See The Forethought Link From Home
When I go home, Forethought is not a choice under Employee Information. What is wrong?
Creating and Managing Activities
Activities are created for your use and for publishing in the district activity bank to share with other teachers. Activities can be created from an existing lesson in your planner or may be created in the scope and sequence tab. Once you have created an activity, you can publish it to the curriculum administrator for review. Once it's approved, the activity is available for other teachers to use in their lesson plans.
Saving in Forethought
Several people have said they have worked in Forethought, but their work didn't save. Here are a few very important reminders about Saving your work in Forethought.
I Get Those Annoying Security Pop-Ups. How Can I Stop This? Is It Safe?
When you open Forethought or move from screen to screen, have you received those annoying security pop-up windows? (pictured at the right) Tired of seeing these? Not sure how to get rid of them? Is it safe to do this?
Attaching Documents to Your Planner
You can attach your own documents to each of your subjects or courses. Here's how to do it!
Creating and Managing Activities
Do you have an activity you'd like to store in the district activity bank? What is the procedure and how can you go about doing this? Here's how.
Copying Plans in Your Planner
Do you teach a semester course and want to copy weeks in your planner so you don't have to retype them? Here's how.
Viewing and Attaching Resources to Your Planner
There is a growing list of resources in Forethought. How do you view them? How do you attach them? When I click the resource once, it doesn't attach. What's wrong? Here are your answers.
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