Improve the snow day
There should be a simple option for "snow day" or "unexpected cancellation" for inclement weather or other reasons. Within that option, there should be a simple checkbox to either count the school day or not (this matters to elementary school teachers who count the days and celebrate 100 days). Secondly, there should be an easy checkbox to continue or skip the cycle day. Finally, there should be an easy checkbox of what to do with the lessons (deleted or pushed to the next day or even saved on that day to be used when the teacher can make up the lost time).
While my colleagues and I are rather adept at using new technology and programs, we have found that the process has too many steps. I had to add an event and check "no school day." Separately, I had to go under "School Year" and restart the cycle day. It is not user-friendly and often results in teachers still having to manually move their lessons from one day to another in order to avoid all the lessons getting rearranged in the case of a snow day. Forget about convincing those who are less technologically inclined to use planbook.com. Literally cutting and pasting in a paper planbook would be easier.
Good news! On the Add drop down, you can select to add a “No School Day”. You’ll see two check boxes, both automatically selected, to mark this day as a No School and a No Cycle day. This will ensure that all lessons are automatically adjusted, and your school day counter is correct. Hope that helps, any questions please let us know!