Curriculum

The curriculum is the set of playbooks your team is actively working on. It answers a simple but critical question: what should we be practicing right now?

Instead of pulling from your entire playbook collection every time you build a practice plan, the curriculum narrows your focus to the plays, formations, and concepts that matter this week, this month, or this season. It’s how you turn a library of plays into a structured learning path for your team.

What Is the Curriculum?

The curriculum is a curated subset of your team’s playbooks. It might include:

• Your primary offensive set (e.g., a vertical stack playbook)
• A defensive playbook you’re installing this month (e.g., zone defense)
• A special situations playbook for endzone offense
• A scouting playbook for an upcoming opponent

The curriculum is not a separate copy of these playbooks — it’s a reference to them. When you add a playbook to the curriculum, you’re saying “this is what we’re focused on.” The plays inside stay in their original playbooks and stay up to date with any edits.

Adding Playbooks to the Curriculum

To add a playbook to your team’s curriculum:

1. Navigate to Practice Planning > Curriculum.
2. Tap + Add Playbook.
3. Browse or search your team’s playbooks.
4. Select the playbook you want to add.
5. Tap Add to Curriculum.

The playbook now appears in your curriculum list, along with all its plays.

What Can Be Added?

You can add any playbook that your team has access to:

• Team playbooks — playbooks created by your team
• Shared playbooks — playbooks shared with your team by collaborators or other teams
• Scouting playbooks — opponent playbooks your coaching staff has created for game preparation

Removing Playbooks from the Curriculum

To remove a playbook from the curriculum:

1. Navigate to Practice Planning > Curriculum.
2. Find the playbook you want to remove.
3. Tap the More menu on the playbook card.
4. Select Remove from Curriculum.

Removing a playbook from the curriculum does not delete it from your team’s playbook collection. It simply removes it from the active focus list. You can always add it back later.

How Curriculum Informs Practice Planning

The curriculum isn’t just a list — it actively helps you build better practices.

Curriculum-Aware Practice Plans

When you create a practice plan, UltiStackr highlights drills that are connected to your current curriculum. This makes it easy to prioritize drills that reinforce the plays and concepts your team is supposed to be learning.

Drill Suggestions

When browsing the drill library from within a practice plan, you can filter by curriculum-related drills — drills that are linked to plays in your current curriculum. This saves time and keeps your practices aligned with your teaching plan.

Coverage Tracking

UltiStackr tracks which plays in your curriculum have been practiced and which haven’t. On the curriculum page, each playbook shows:

• Total plays — the number of plays in the playbook
• Practiced — how many plays have been included in at least one practice plan (via linked drills)
• Not yet practiced — plays that haven’t been covered yet

This gives you a clear picture of your team’s progress and helps you identify gaps. If your endzone offense playbook has 8 plays and you’ve only repped 3 of them, it’s time to build some new drills.

Curriculum-Based Drill Selection

One of the most practical benefits of maintaining a curriculum is streamlined drill selection.

Finding Drills by Curriculum

1. Open your drill library.
2. Tap Filter.
3. Select Curriculum as a filter category.
4. Choose a specific playbook from your curriculum, or select All Curriculum Playbooks.
5. The library filters to show only drills linked to plays in the selected playbook(s).

This workflow is especially useful when you’re planning a practice focused on a specific concept. If tonight’s theme is “zone offense,” filter your drills by the zone offense playbook in your curriculum and you’ll see every drill that directly practices those plays.

Creating Drills from Curriculum Plays

You can also create drills directly from a play in your curriculum:

1. Navigate to Practice Planning > Curriculum.
2. Open a playbook and find the play you want to drill.
3. Tap Create Drill from Play.
4. UltiStackr creates a new drill with the play already linked. Fill in the drill name, description, duration, and tags.
5. Tap Save.

This is a fast way to build out your drill library around your current curriculum.

Managing the Curriculum Over the Season

Your curriculum should evolve as the season progresses. Here’s a typical pattern:

Early Season

• Focus on foundational playbooks: primary offense, primary defense
• Add 2-3 playbooks to the curriculum
• Build drills around core concepts and basic plays

Mid-Season

• Rotate in advanced playbooks: endzone sets, zone offense/defense
• Remove playbooks your team has mastered (or move them to a “maintenance” review cycle)
• Add scouting playbooks for upcoming opponents

Late Season / Tournament Prep

• Narrow the curriculum to your strongest and most reliable sets
• Add opponent-specific scouting playbooks
• Focus drills on execution and polish rather than installation

Permissions

The curriculum is managed by owners, coaches, and team managers. All team members can view the current curriculum and see which playbooks are in focus, but only users with the appropriate role can add or remove playbooks.

For more on team roles and permissions, see the Admin Guide.