ZoltarScript: A small program for class session planning

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0

Last week, I was imagining an ideal application for planning and improving training sessions. As I couldn’t find one, I decided to create a small script¹ that I could use for this purpose.

Although it has many flaws and limitations due to the minimal time I could dedicate to it, for now it decently fulfills most of the things I was looking for to plan the course. It currently has two main functions:

• It generates all the sessions of a subject for an entire academic course. By indicating a course start date, an end date, holidays, and the days and hours of the week when there’s a class session, it shows all the sessions that will take place throughout the course, creating a row for each one with the session number, date, day of the week, and specific time. In each session’s row, there’s a column to plan what will be done in it.
• It transfers all the subject sessions to Google Calendar², including the development of that session in the event description. This way, having the calendar synchronized, I can check what I have to do in the next session at any time, looking at the clock, tablet, or computer. It can also be exported in .icalc format, in case you want to take it to your favorite application.

Everything is done in a Google Sheet³, as it’s a very easy format to manipulate. For the next course, you can simply copy the column of the sessions into the new ones that are generated, taking into account the comments that have been made to improve them.

Would you like to try it out to plan your classes? You can do so by following the instructions you’ll find in the project repository⁴.

If you’ve found it useful and want to collaborate on the project, you can do so in different ways:

• Write a comment, always constructive, on this post.
• Create an issue⁵ to propose a new function or report an error.
• Improve the script and submit a pull request⁶.
• Buy me a coffee⁷ (support my work).