Teacher Experience
Teachers check the portal between students, so their experience is one main
view: the teaching day. The teacher menu is
[Teaching Days] [Calendar] [Profile photo].
The day view
One card per lesson, in chronological order: time, student name, class name, room/location (online lessons get an icon). Two design decisions shape it:
- Navigation is by teaching day, not by date. Lessons are sparse — most dates have nothing on them — so there is deliberately no date picker. When there are no lessons today, the page shows the next day that has any, under “Upcoming Lessons.” Arrows move to the previous/next teaching day, and the Teaching Days view is the list.
- Attendance is easy to mark and easy to take back. Each card has
attended/missed marking, and an “Unmark” action with a confirmation —
because a mis-tap between two lessons should not be permanent.
(
lessons.attended: NULL = unmarked, 1 = attended, 0 = missed.)
Each card also carries the lesson’s notes and materials inline, so the
teacher never has to leave the day to write a note or attach something.
“Add a resource” attaches a file (stored in private_files) or a link, each
with a title, in a modal.
Teaching Days
Just the dates the teacher works, with where they are and how many lessons — the view that answers “am I at Bronx CC on Saturday?” Each day opens the hour-by-hour day view.
Calendar
- Semester view — the whole semester as one chronological list: every lesson with its date, time, and location, plus the holiday weeks when a location where the teacher works is closed.
- Weekly view — a plain chronological list of that week’s lessons, each clickable.
What teachers see of the schedule
A teacher’s standing weekly slots are their reservations; their non-teaching time (lunch, errands) appears as hold blocks with a title. When an admin assigns them as a substitute for another teacher’s lesson on a particular date, that lesson shows up in their day.