Schedule recurring practices: a whole season in one go

Scheduling recurring practices saves you a season of typing. You set up your regular practice night once, up to the end of the season, and after that you only deal with the exceptions: a public holiday, a holiday week or an evening when the gym is closed.

How do you schedule a regular practice night for the whole season?

In Koach you set up a series from the Schedule tab. Only the coach can do that; players and parents then simply see the practices appear in their own schedule.

1. Open the sheet. Go to Schedule, tap More (the three dots) at the top right and choose Recurring trainings.
2. Check the five rows. Everything is already filled in. Every shows the weekday of your last practice, From the next time that day comes around, Until the end of your season (if your team has no season, 1 July) and Time the start time of your last practice. Focus is optional: whatever you type there is added to every practice.
3. Pick a template if you like. If your team has practice templates, there is also a Template row. If you pick one, every new practice gets that plan right away.
4. Tap the button. It counts how many practices will really be added, for example Add 35 trainings. Then the message 35 trainings added appears.

Two things to know. A series has one weekday; if you practise on Tuesday and Thursday, you make two series. And Koach skips days that already have a practice: they do not count in the button and are not overwritten. If no new practices would be added, the button is disabled. So you can safely lay a series over the same period again, for example if you made it too short.

Which dates drop out? Public and school holidays

A series puts a practice on every chosen weekday in the period, including public holidays and school holidays. In the example above, 24 and 31 December fall on a Thursday, so they are in there too. For evenings like that you have two options, both via More at the top right of the practice:

• Cancel training. The practice stays in the schedule as cancelled, so players and parents see that nothing is on. Players get a notification if the date is today or later. Plan and attendance are kept, but the practice does not count towards attendance. If it goes ahead after all, choose Reinstate training.
• Delete training. If the practice is part of a series, Koach first asks how far it should go: This training only, This and all following or All trainings in the series, with the number of practices. Only then comes the confirmation.

For a holiday week, cancelling is usually the better choice: the week stays visible, and nobody wonders whether the practice was forgotten.

Changing the time or focus of the whole series

If the gym time moves by half an hour, you do not change thirty evenings one by one. Open a practice from the series, tap the pencil (Edit training) and change the time or the focus. When you save, Koach asks in the Edit training sheet whether the change is for this practice only, this one and all following, or all practices in the series. How to make that choice and what does and does not carry over is covered in detail in editing a recurring practice.

Does your club use a hall schedule? Then it starts on your dashboard

If your club's board uses the halls in Koach, you do not have to copy the day and time yourself. After Publish schedule you get a card on your dashboard: Hall time from your club, with Your hall slot for your team is set, the day, the time and the hall with the court. Schedule as recurring training opens the same sheet, already filled in with the weekday, the period of the hall rental (or otherwise up to the end of your season) and the start time. The hall and the court go into the Focus field.

• The schedule plans nothing by itself. Only when you tap the button with the number of practices are they in your schedule. After that the card disappears.
• Not now closes the card for good. It only comes back if the board changes your block and publishes the schedule again.
• Changes for a single week also come as a card. If the hall is closed one week, you see No hall on that date, with the choice Cancel training or Keep it.

How the board sets up such a schedule is covered in making a practice schedule for your club. The halls are part of the Club plan; more on the page for clubs.

Once added, the series is in the team calendar, next to your matches. If you want every practice to have a plan right away, first save a good plan as a template; how that works is in copying a volleyball practice plan. More about the rest of your season preparation is in organising the volleyball season, and what Koach costs after the trial is on the pricing page.

Frequently asked questions

Further reading

The whole series or just this evening? Editing a recurring volleyball practice The team calendar: practices and matches in one schedule Club practice schedule: sharing court time fairly between teams

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