Step 3: Check What's on the Session

You do not plan your sessions. Spark tracks where your group is in the curriculum and puts a lesson or an assessment on the group’s next session before you open it. This step is a check, not a decision.

Try it yourself

Open the Session Plan form in the interactive demo to see what you would change if you wanted something different.

Why It Is Already There

Every group moves through the same phases in order, and the phase decides what gets assigned:

Icebreaker -> Pre-assessment -> Building blocks -> Lesson sequence -> Post-assessment -> Complete

Only the group’s next scheduled session gets filled in, not the whole term. That is deliberate: a session that runs long or gets rescheduled does not knock the rest of your calendar out of order. The full rules are in How Content Gets Assigned to Your Sessions.

What to Check

• Does it match where you think the group is? If the group has moved faster or slower than the platform thinks, this is where you would catch it.
• Is anyone working something different? On pre-assessment sessions, assignments are per student. Two students in the same session may be working different assessments, and one student may have several.

If You Want Something Else

Auto-assigned content shows as read-only, with edit controls appearing when you hover over it. That is on purpose, so the screen reads as a decision already made rather than one waiting on you.

To change it, open the Assign Lesson form.

Two things to know before you override

Your change sticks. Once you set a session’s content by hand, Spark won’t overwrite it. Later sessions keep getting content assigned as normal, so overriding one session doesn’t switch anything off.

And if you assign something further ahead than the group’s current phase - a lesson while the group is still on pre-assessments, say - the whole group’s phase moves forward to match. That’s useful for a group held up by absences, but it’s a bigger action than it looks.

Full steps: Assigning a Lesson to an Upcoming Session.

Next

Step 4: Join the Session

Related Reference

• How Content Gets Assigned to Your Sessions
• Assigning a Lesson to an Upcoming Session
• How Pre-Assessments Get Assigned Automatically