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How to Set Tasks in Toddle's Calendar for MYP Teaching: A Practical Playbook

If you teach the IB Middle Years Programme and use Toddle as your learning management system, setting tasks through Toddle's calendar is one of the most powerful ways to keep your MYP classes organized, transparent, and on schedule. This guide walks you through everything from initial setup to advanced workflow strategies.

Key Takeaways

• Toddle's calendar centralizes task creation, making it easy to link assignments to MYP objectives, criteria, and units of inquiry.
• Setting tasks directly in the calendar improves student visibility and reduces missed deadlines in fast-paced MYP courses.
• Best practice: align every task with MYP criteria and attach rubrics before publishing to the class calendar.
• Workflow tip: batch-create tasks at the start of each term to save time throughout the cycle.
• Use tags and color-coding to differentiate between summative assessments, formative tasks, ATL skill work, and service-as-action entries.

What Is Toddle's Calendar and Why It Matters for MYP

Understanding the Toddle Calendar Feature

Toddle is a purpose-built platform for IB educators. Its calendar feature allows teachers to create, schedule, and manage tasks across all their classes from a single dashboard. Tasks can be linked to units of inquiry, tagged with MYP criteria, and published so students and parents can view them in real time.

Why the Calendar Is Essential for MYP Teaching

• Transparency: Students and parents see upcoming deadlines clearly, which supports the IB's emphasis on learner agency and self-management.
• Alignment: Tasks can be mapped directly to MYP subject-specific criteria (A, B, C, D) and ATL skills.
• Efficiency: One calendar view across multiple classes eliminates the need to check individual class folders separately.
• Assessment tracking: Summative tasks appear alongside formative check-ins, giving a complete picture of the assessment cycle.

Step-by-Step: How to Set Tasks in Toddle's Calendar

Prerequisites

• Ensure you have admin or teacher-level access to your Toddle school instance.
• Verify that your MYP classes are already set up in Toddle with students enrolled.
• Confirm that your MYP units of inquiry are created and linked to the relevant subjects and grades.

Step 1 — Navigate to the Calendar

• Log in to Toddle and select your school workspace.
• Click Calendar in the top navigation bar (or the sidebar, depending on your layout).
• Choose the relevant view: Day, Week, or Month. The Month view is recommended for MYP planning at the start of a term.

Step 2 — Create a New Task

• Click the + button or Add Task on the desired date.
• A task creation panel will open on the right side of the screen.
• Fill in the following fields:

Field	What to Enter	MYP-Specific Tip
Task Name	Clear, descriptive title (e.g., "Science Investigation — Criterion B Draft")	Include the criterion letter so students know exactly what is being assessed.
Description	Instructions, context, and any success criteria	Reference the MYP statement of inquiry and key concepts where applicable.
Class	Select the relevant MYP class(es)	Choose all sections that share the same task to avoid duplicate entry.
Unit of Inquiry	Link to the MYP unit this task belongs to	This ensures alignment reporting is accurate for your portfolio.
Due Date & Time	Set the deadline	Allow buffer time around mid-term exams or concurrent summative deadlines.
Task Type	Homework, Quiz, Project, Lab Report, etc.	Use consistent labels that match your school's MYP assessment terminology.
Attachment	Upload rubrics, worksheets, or exemplars	Always attach the MYP criterion-specific rubric for transparency.
Tags	ATL skills, subject areas, service-as-action	Tag with specific ATL skill clusters (e.g., "Self-Management — Organization").
Publish StatusPublish or Draft	Save as draft while you finalize instructions, then publish when ready.

Step 3 — Link to MYP Objectives and Rubrics

• Within the task panel, locate the Assessment or Criteria section.
• Select the relevant MYP criteria (e.g., Criterion A for Knowing and Understanding, Criterion C for Processing and Evaluating in Sciences).
• Upload or link the criterion-specific rubric so students can access it directly from the task card.
• If your school uses the new MYP assessment model (post-2025 updates), ensure you're mapping to the correct updated descriptors.

Step 4 — Save and Publish

• Review all fields for accuracy.
• Click Publish to make the task visible to students and parents on their Toddle dashboards.
• A notification will be sent to enrolled students (verify your school's notification settings).

Step 5 — Verify Student Visibility

• Switch to a student view (if your school enables a preview mode) or ask a colleague to confirm the task appears correctly.
• Check that the due date, attachments, and criteria links display properly.

Advanced Strategies for MYP Teachers Using Toddle Calendar

Batch-Scheduling at the Start of Term

At the beginning of each six-week cycle, block out your calendar with all known summative deadlines first. Then fill in formative checkpoints. This prevents date collisions across your MYP subject areas.

Using Color-Coding by Assessment Type

• Red: Summative assessments
• Blue: Formative checks and practice tasks
• Green: ATL skill development activities
• Orange: Service-as-action and CAS entries
• Purple: Extended essay (MYP Year 5) or Personal Project milestones

Integrating ATL Skills into Every Task

Every MYP task should explicitly reference at least one ATL skill. When creating tasks in Toddle, always use the tag feature to link tasks to the five ATL skill sets:

• Thinking skills
• Communication skills
• Social skills
• Self-management skills
• Research skills

Sharing the Calendar with Colleagues