The Calendar is your timetable — where you book lessons, move them around and take the register. It’s the second item in the left sidebar, at /calendar, and it’s also the page you land on when you sign in.
The views, on a desktop and on a phone
The calendar opens on Today: a single-day timeline with a week strip across the top so you can see the days either side at a glance. Use the arrows (or the Today button) to move through time. Weeks start on Monday.
The set of views you get depends on the width of the screen, and the app swaps between the two sets as the window crosses:
| Where | Views |
|---|---|
| Desktop | Today · Week · Month |
| Phone | Today · 3 days · Agenda · Month |
Today is for working through one day lesson by lesson and taking attendance. Week (or 3 days on a phone) shows the shape of the week and where the gaps are. Agenda is a plain list, which is often the fastest read on a small screen. Month is for getting your bearings — tap any day to jump to it.
On a day with more than one teacher teaching, the day view splits into one lane per teacher, so you read the studio rather than a pile-up. Where a slot holds more lessons than will fit, a “+N” chip tells you how many more are there. The Display control lets you set how all of this looks — colour, density, whether weekends show, how lanes behave — per person and per device. See lanes, density and colour.
Cancelled lessons stay off the calendar unless you ask for them. When the view you’re looking at is hiding any, a small “3 cancelled hidden” chip appears by the view controls — tap it, or switch on Display → Show cancelled lessons, to see them struck through where they were. Switch it off again and they leave.
Book a lesson
The quickest way to add a lesson is straight from an empty slot:
- Click an empty slot on the timeline. A small New lesson card opens, pre-filled with that date, time and a default length.
- Add the student. Start typing a name and pick them from the list.
- Save. That’s the three-click booking — done.
Need more than the basics? Choose More options on that card to open the full lesson, where you can set:
- Private or group — a private lesson takes one student; switch to group to add several.
- Teacher, Location and Room.
- Length — pick one of your studio’s lengths, or Other for any length from 15 to 240 minutes.
- Whether it’s a one-off or a repeating series.
Good to know LessonLoop checks for clashes as you book — a double-booked teacher or room is flagged before you save, and closure dates are taken into account.
Book a whole term at once
You rarely want to add lessons one by one. In the full lesson, turn on a repeating series and choose the days and an end date (or leave it ongoing) — LessonLoop creates the whole run in a single step and shows you a preview of the first lessons, with any closures already skipped. See Recurring lessons for the detail.
Move or change a lesson
Drag a lesson to a new time to reschedule it — on Today, and on Week and 3 days too, where you can drop it onto another day. Click it to open and edit the details instead. On a day showing teacher lanes, dragging a lesson into a different lane also moves it to that teacher. From the keyboard: focus the lesson, use the arrow keys to move it (left and right change the day, up and down the time), then press Enter. For a repeating series you’ll be asked whether the change applies to just this lesson or this and all future ones.
Take the register
When it’s time to mark who turned up, use the Take attendance button on the calendar — it opens the register for the day you’re viewing. Full walkthrough in Take the register.
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