Sunday school classes and teaching

The Sunday school page shows members their own class, this week’s passage, and who is teaching. The office sets up the classes and lessons. Teachers plan their own teaching turns.

Before you start

The secretary or webmaster (or whatever your church calls those roles) sets up classes and lessons in Administration → Sunday school. It has two tabs: Classes and Lesson schedule.

Set up classes

1. On the Classes tab, type a name under Add a class, choose Adult class or Children’s class, and choose Add class.
2. Open the class to add its Ages or grades and Room, then choose Save.
3. To add people, choose a role under Add as (Class member, Teacher, Assistant or Moderator), then type a name in the search box. Pick someone from the directory, or choose Add “…” (not in the directory). The directory search lists adults; type children’s names in. Only people linked to the directory see their class on the Sunday school page.
4. To change someone’s role later, open their name and pick a new one. A person is a Class member in only one class, but can also teach, assist or moderate in other classes. Someone in the women’s class who takes turns teaching the juniors is a Class member there and a Teacher in the juniors’ class.

Add the lessons

1. On the Lesson schedule tab, type a Study title and choose Save title.
2. Under Add a Sunday, pick the date, type the passage (like “Acts 5:1-16”) or a note (like “Easter Sunday”), and choose Add Sunday.

Members can tap the passage to read it. Show past Sundays lists earlier lessons.

Plan teaching turns

Teachers, assistants and moderators of a class can do this, as can the office, anyone listed in Church offices as a superintendent in the “Sunday School” group, and anyone already on that class’s upcoming teaching schedule.

1. On the Sunday school page, open Set up turns for your class.
2. Choose how teachers take turns: Take turns each Sunday, A few Sundays at a time, A month at a time, By Sunday of the month, or One teacher every Sunday.
3. Choose the teachers in order and the Starting Sunday. Check the preview.
4. Choose Fill the schedule.

Sundays with only a note get no teacher. To change one Sunday, choose Edit beside it.

Ask for a cover

If you can’t teach on your Sunday, choose Need a cover. Ask One person or Anyone in your class, then choose Send request. The first person to say yes takes the Sunday.

If something goes wrong

• “That person is already a class member in another class.” Add them here as Teacher, Assistant or Moderator instead, or remove them from the other class first.
• The passage won’t save. Write it like “Acts 5”, “Acts 5:1-16” or “Acts 21:37-22:29”.
• A teacher can’t plan turns. Make sure they’re on the class list as Teacher, Assistant or Moderator, and linked to the directory.