View the Calendar & a Week

Calendar in the top bar has two views: Semester and Week. Where the Semester Schedule shows the abstract weekly pattern, these show real dates and real lessons.

The semester view

/admin/calendar.php is deliberately not a month grid — a month grid wastes most of its space on a program that meets one day a week. Instead it lists every class date in the semester chronologically: class days in green, breaks and holidays in purple with their title (“Holiday Week” — the class dates CSV’s Notes column), each with its hours and locations. Locations that share a date and title are listed together; a date appears twice when its locations disagree. Clicking any date opens that week.

The weekly view

/admin/calendar_week.php?date=… is the schedule-grid shape for one real week (Sunday–Saturday, with Previous/Next), showing actual lessons and hold-block occurrences instead of the standing pattern. Like the schedule it draws one grid per class day — but headed by the real date (“Tuesday, Sep 8”) and ordered chronologically within the week, each with only that day’s teachers. The differences from the abstract grid all follow from “real”:

• Cancelled lessons don’t appear — their slot is genuinely free here. (The family and teacher still see them, marked cancelled.)
• Cells are placed by each lesson’s effective teacher and location — substitutes and one-week room changes included. A substitute who has no regular column this semester gets a temporary one, so nothing ever vanishes off the edge of the grid.
• Status notes ride on each cell: Missed / Attended, Time moved (from what time), Substitute teacher: ….
• The color code is simpler than the schedule grid’s — no balance colors: scheduled = pastel blue, substitute = pastel orange, missed = white italic, hold block = grey.
• An empty week still draws the grid — that’s precisely when you want to click a slot and put something in it.

Clicking a lesson

The lesson modal collects the per-occurrence operations, each covered in its own page:

• Length — this week only (Change a Lesson’s Duration)
• Attendance — not marked / attended / missed
• Substitute teacher (Assign a Substitute)
• Location — this week only
• Cancel lesson — its own red button, since it can’t be undone (Cancellations & One-Off Changes)
• A link to the student’s page — notes, parents, and charges live there.

Saving applies the changes in sequence and stops at the first refusal (length and substitute go first, since they’re the two that can be refused by a conflict).

Clicking an empty cell, and dragging

An empty cell adds a one-off lesson or hold block on that date only (see Cancellations & One-Off Changes). Press Edit to drag a lesson to another time — or onto another teacher’s column, which makes that teacher the substitute for the week (see Move a Lesson’s Time). Grey hold-block occurrences can be clicked to retime, retitle, or remove just that week.