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title: "Instructional Calendars"
slug: "instructional-calendars"
updated: 2026-05-28T21:28:21Z
published: 2026-05-28T21:28:21Z
canonical: "support.eduphoria.net/instructional-calendars"
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# Instructional Calendars

Users with the **Create District Curriculum Courses** right can enable planning for the next school year on the **Instructional Calendar Management** screen. There are two steps to enabling future planning:

1. **Curriculum Planning** - First, you enable open the instructional calendar to curriculum coordinators and administrators. This allows users with the **Create District Curriculum Courses** right to create the scaffolding of next year’s curriculum by building out courses and units.
2. **Teacher Planning** - Next, you open the instructional calendar to all users so that teachers can begin building lesson plans for the next school year.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** To start planning for next school year, the instructional calendar must be set up in [**Management**](/v1/docs/management). To learn how to set up the instructional calendar, see [Creating the Instructional Calendar](/v1/docs/creating-instructional-calendar). If you do not have access to creating instructional calendars, contact your Eduphoria System Administrator to get this set up.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** The **Create District Curriculum Courses** right is required to access **Staff Search**.

## Statuses in Instructional Calendar Management

Each instructional calendar listed on the **Instructional Calendar Management** screen includes the school year, a status bubble, and an expand/collapse arrow. The status bubble provides an at-a-glace view of the calendar’s current stage in the planning process.

- **Inactive** - The calendar has been created in **Management**, but neither Curriculum Planning nor Teacher Planning are enabled.
- **Planning** - Curriculum Planning is enabled. Teacher Planning is not enabled.
- **Active** - Both Curriculum Planning and Teacher Planning are enabled.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/image-O99B46TL.png)

Expand a row to view the current stage in more detail and to manage the calendar.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/image-TQGUK66Q.png)