School Bulk Pacing for Teachers & Administrators
School Bulk Pacing allows schools to apply consistent pacing rules across the entire school, ensuring a shared approach to pacing and progress expectations for students. This release introduces new tools that make pacing easier to manage, more transparent, and simpler to adjust at scale.
What Is School Bulk Pacing?
School Bulk Pacing is a school-level configuration that establishes pacing expectations across the entire school. It provides a single, consistent pacing structure that applies broadly, rather than being managed on a course basis, a section for a specific course or a student enrolled in a course.
This feature helps schools maintain alignment on pacing expectations while giving educators visibility into how pacing is applied.
Key Features
School-Level Pacing Configuration
School Bulk Pacing is configured at the school level, creating a single source of truth for pacing expectations across the school. Any course and course within a section without existing pacing will now inherit this configuration by default. Custom pacing can also be reset to the School-wide pacing.
Improved Visibility Into Pacing and Blackout Dates
Teachers and administrators can view pacing-related information to better understand how pacing expectations apply across students and courses.
Consistency Across the School
By applying pacing at the school level, schools can ensure consistent expectations without managing pacing individually at the course level.
Automatic Pacing Distribution
Automatic Pacing Distribution uses intelligent pacing logic to calculate due dates for course content and spread assignments evenly across the course timeframe. This helps ensure students have a consistent workload from the beginning of the course through completion.
What’s Included
Even distribution of assignments: Lessons are automatically spaced across the available course days so work is not clustered too closely together.
Flexible scheduling options: Schools can choose whether weekends are included as valid due dates using the “Allow target dates to be set on weekend.” This is an existing functionality.
Blackout dates: Specific dates such as holidays, breaks, or school closures can be excluded so no assignments are due on those days (see section School-Level Pacing Configuration)
Aligned topic and chapter dates: Chapter and topic due dates automatically align with the final lesson in that section.
How Automatic Pacing Distribution Works
Administrators configure the course timeframe by setting a start date, end date, and any dates to skip. The system then calculates due dates automatically, distributing lessons evenly from the start of the course to the end.
To ensure even spacing, the system may vary the number of days between due dates (for example, alternating between one-day and two-day gaps) so that assignments are spread consistently across the full course period.
Navigate to the Pacing tab in Course Manager. The new School Settings section is now available.
2. Select your Start and End dates, along with the Time you want to use for pacing.
3. Add blackout dates under Excluded Dates to account for holidays or non-instructional days. Select your dates and click Set Excluded Dates.
4. To apply the school default pacing, click Save School Pacing.
Configuration Options
Start Date: The date the course begins
End Date: The date the course should be completed
Due Time: The time of day items are due (defaults to 11:59 PM)
Allow Weekends: Determines whether Saturdays and Sundays are counted as valid due dates
Excluded Dates: Dates to skip, such as holidays, breaks, or closures
Good to Know
Topic or chapter due dates will match the due date of the final lesson within that section.
Topics or chapters without lessons receive their own due date.
How School Bulk Pacing Works
An administrator enables School Bulk Pacing at the school level.
Pacing expectations are applied consistently across the school.
Teachers and administrators can reference pacing information as students progress.
Who Can Manage School Bulk Pacing?
Administrators: Enable and manage School Bulk Pacing at the school level.
Teachers: View pacing information to better understand student progress within the school’s pacing framework.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is School-Wide Pacing applied per course?
No. School Bulk Pacing is applied at the school level and is not managed on a course-by-course basis.
Does School-Wide Pacing change course content or assignments?
School Bulk Pacing defines pacing expectations only. It does not modify course content or assignment settings.
Can teachers change School Bulk Pacing?
School Pacing is managed by administrators. Teachers can view school pacing information but cannot configure or modify school-level pacing. Teachers can, however, reset student pacing to the school-wide default when needed.
Will enabling School-Wide Pacing affect students already in progress?
School Bulk Pacing establishes consistent pacing expectations moving forward. Existing student progress is preserved.
What happens if section-level or student-level pacing already exists?
If pacing is already set at the course or individual student level, those settings remain unchanged. School Bulk pacing only applies where no more specific pacing has been configured.
How do I reset a custom pacing to the default pacing?
From the course, section, or student level, open the pacing settings and select Reset to Existing Pacing. This will apply the appropriate default pacing based on the most specific level available:
Student-level pacing (if set)
Otherwise, section-level pacing
Otherwise, course-level pacing
Otherwise, school-wide pacing
The most granular pacing configuration always takes precedence.