Classmaker addresses five major lesson planning problems:

1. Many teachers use a hand written Weekly calendar for their planning, but these change so frequently, that by the end of the week's teaching they are illegible and useless for referring to in future.

2. The planning process generates huge volumes of paper. Most teachers rely on Microsoft Word documents for their planning, but do not have a robust file management process in place when storing them. It doesn't take long before they cannot find their previously taught lessons or their laptop crashes and they lose the lot!

3. Effective teachers use detailed plans before they teach, created using a standardised methodology, which can be an onerous process to follow. Classmaker keeps this as simple as possible with the final output being an easy to follow printed plan of the day's lessons that a teacher can take to class as a hard copy for their day's teaching.

4. All forward planning can be done directly inside Classmaker, but you cannot plan at a Weekly level without first forming a higher level view of the weeks ahead. Enter the concept of hierarchical planning using Long Term plans (the Book), Unit plans (the Chapters) and Lesson plans (the Pages) on calendars. The idea behind the Long Term calendar, is to obtain a high level view of your term's teaching by subject to ensure curriculum coverage over a user definable "season" of time, usually terms, semesters or quarters. The Unit plan aggregates your lessons and other supporting material into a "folder" that can be copied between databases, while the Weekly calendar displays your detailed Lesson plans over a week.