When plans change — bumping lessons

Move a lesson and bring the rest of the sequence with it, without touching the lessons that must stay put.

No term survives contact with reality. There is an assembly, a trip, a snow day, or a week lost to mocks. Bumping is how Skeme absorbs that without you re-planning the term.

What bumping does

Bump a lesson forwards and it moves to that class’s next period. Everything scheduled after it shuffles along by one, keeping your sequence intact.

Bump backwards and the sequence pulls back the other way.

The key point is that it operates on that class’s own periods, not on calendar days. A lesson bumped from a Tuesday lands in whenever you next teach that group — Thursday, Friday, whenever it actually is.

Locking lessons that must not move

Some lessons are fixed to a date. An end-of-topic test, a revision lesson before an assessment, a lesson built around a visiting speaker.

Lock the period and bumping steps straight over it. Everything around it shifts; the locked lesson stays exactly where you put it.

Worth locking as you go rather than in a panic afterwards — the moment you know a date is fixed, lock it.

Non-teaching days

You do not need to bump manually for training days or school closures. Switch the day to a professional or non-teaching day in Events, and lessons bump around it automatically.

That is usually the better approach for anything affecting a whole day, because it also keeps the calendar honest for everything else.

Preparation follows the lesson

Because preparation tasks are attached to the lesson rather than to a fixed date, they move when the lesson moves.

If your photocopying is set for three days before a lesson and that lesson gets bumped by a week, the reminder moves with it. You are not printing for a lesson you are no longer teaching.