Instructor Field

I agree. I tried to "add class". Not able to save. Don't see an "activate" box. Nothing shows up.
Some suggestions on the "add class" screen.:
1. Instructor field only allows (1) name. What about classes such as "Marriage and Family Relations" where we have a husband and wife team teach.

Moderator note: This thread has been moved from the "New post: New Lesson Schedules Application Now in Beta."to comply with instructions to provide feedback in separate threads of the Beta Lesson Schedules forum. The original post has been split into three threads for each of the issues reported.

In addition to this - we have different instructors for different weeks. I can see how we could have a "Teachings of the Prophets" class and "Teachings For Our Times" class with the weeks marked as 2nd-3rd and 4th respectively, but would we have to create two "Teachings of the Prophets" classes if we had two instructors for it? Sometimes there are different assignments for the first Sunday lesson as well. Would that have to be reassigned manually?

As a member of a ward Sunday School Presidency, I would agree with the two comments above. If there is a teacher option, there needs to be more flexibility with it. One other thing that I would add to making it possible to have multiple teachers, is it would be nice to be able to have the system set a teacher as the teacher every other week or however the individual ward does it.

I did find that the instructor field does support free-form name entry - you do not have to select from the member list. As SS Pres in our ward, we keep the 14-Adult classes on the same lesson schedule, so I simply entered 'multiple' for the instructor name.

At the same time, my concern is that the FULL name of the members is shown. Not the preferred names from the directory. This can often be very confusing - particularly when the name a person goes by is not one of their given names.

I agree with the original poster. It would be nice to add more than one instructor for team-teaching classes (where both instructors teach on the same Sunday).

carlwood wrote:I did find that the instructor field does support free-form name entry - you do not have to select from the member list.

Be aware entering a "free-form" instructor, such as "multiple," would not allow the system to recognize that instructor, and would limit the instructors abilities within the system. For example, the help says that "Instructors can edit the lessons for classes they teach. " While it may not have any adverse effects in your youth Sunday School example, you should be aware of such a limitation if you use "free-form" name entry in another situation where you would like the instructor to have those (and perhaps future unknown) abilities.

I agree with the other posts, in that it would be nice to have an option to add more than one instructor. Also, when selecting the name of the instructor it was giving me their full legal name, however, when viewing the details after saving it is showing their preferred name. Can it be setup to show the preferred name when selecting the instructor?

I concur. I would (also) recommend the following features:

• Ability to enter in multiple instructors for a class (overall)
  • Example: Teacher A, Teacher B, Teacher C, etc.
• Ability to create recurring instructor schedule
  • Example: Teacher A teaches every 1st and 3rd Sunday, Teacher B teaches 2nd and 4th Sundays, Teacher C teaches 5th Sunday, etc.
• Ability to enter in multiple instructors for single lesson
  • Example: Teachers A and B take turns teaching parts of each lesson
• Ability to create recurring instructor schedule for co-instructors
  • Example: Teachers A and B teach every 1st Sunday, Teachers C and D teach every 2nd Sunday, etc.

I'm from a small singles ward and, as such, some of our instructors are out-of-unit members (members of the Bishopric and their wives). It would, therefore, be very helpful and much-appreciated if there was some way to add an out-of-unit instructor to classes.

I agree that we need multiple instructors for team taught classes.

ggconrad wrote:I'm from a small singles ward and, as such, some of our instructors are out-of-unit members (members of the Bishopric and their wives). It would, therefore, be very helpful and much-appreciated if there was some way to add an out-of-unit instructor to classes.

Interesting. I tried adding a name of someone who was "Out-of-Unit", and it worked fine for me. Is it not working for you? If they have a calling in MLS, then they should be able to be added. Wives of members of the Bishopric may have to be added as "Out-of-Unit" callings.

AileneRHerrick wrote:Interesting. I tried adding a name of someone who was "Out-of-Unit", and it worked fine for me. Is it not working for you? If they have a calling in MLS, then they should be able to be added. Wives of members of the Bishopric may have to be added as "Out-of-Unit" callings.

It's still not working for me. I plugged in first name, last name, and preferred name for all eight "Out-of-Unit" individuals, and nothing ever came up. I double-checked the online directory and all individuals were listed under their respective organizations inside "Ward Leaders".

ggconrad wrote:It's still not working for me. I plugged in first name, last name, and preferred name for all eight "Out-of-Unit" individuals, and nothing ever came up. I double-checked the online directory and all individuals were listed under their respective organizations inside "Ward Leaders".

That is strange.

If you go to the online directory, click on "Ward Leaders" and then click on "Out of Unit" at the bottom of the list, do any of these members appear there?

AileneRHerrick wrote:That is strange.

If you go to the online directory, click on "Ward Leaders" and then click on "Out of Unit" at the bottom of the list, do any of these members appear there?

That's a different kind of out-of-unit member. Those are members who have their records in your ward but who are serving another unit. ggconrad is talking about leaders whose records are located in another ward but are serving in the ward where the lesson is taught. Basically the reverse situation from the ones listed in the 'Out Of Unit' section.

eblood66 wrote:That's a different kind of out-of-unit member. Those are members who have their records in your ward but who are serving another unit. ggconrad is talking about leaders whose records are located in another ward but are serving in the ward where the lesson is taught. Basically the reverse situation from the ones listed in the 'Out Of Unit' section.

Okay, that makes more sense then. I am able to successfully add people from that "Out-of-Unit" section, so my situation isn't the same as ggconrad's. My apologies!

ggconrad, since this thread seems to mainly discuss wanting to add multiple instructors to the instructor field, I would recommend starting a new thread and explaining your out of unit situation. The programmers may be more likely to see it (since they may assume that everything in this thread pertains to the multiple instructor issue).