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When you change or delete a session that repeats, SmartCookie asks which sessions it affects. You can choose between three options:
  • This session: only the session you opened. If you add or remove Google Meet, it still changes for the whole series.
  • This and following sessions: that session and every one after it. Earlier ones don’t change.
  • All sessions: the whole series, including past sessions.

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Edit a recurring session

If you choose This and following sessions or All sessions, you lose changes you made earlier to single sessions in the series. Sessions you moved go back to their time, and sessions you deleted on their own date (with This session) come back.
  1. In Calendar, click the session.
  2. Click the pencil (Edit session).
Calendar session window with the Edit session pencil numbered 2

A session opened in the calendar

  1. Change the date, the time or the repeat rule. To change the rule, click the button that shows it, below the time: the Custom recurrence rule window opens.
  2. Click Save, in the session window. The Edit recurring session window opens.
  3. Choose which sessions the change affects.
  4. Click Continue. You’ll see the change in your calendar.
Edit recurring session window with the options This session, This and following sessions and All sessions, and the Continue button, numbered 5 and 6

Window to choose which sessions the change affects

You won’t always see all three options:
  • If you change the repeat rule, This session doesn’t show.
  • If you change the date, All sessions doesn’t show.
You can also edit from the course page, with the pencil (Edit session) on each session. There, the window is called Update session and you click Update session instead of Save. Then you choose which sessions it affects, just like in the calendar.

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Delete a recurring session

  1. In Calendar, click the session. You can also do this from the course’s session list.
  2. Click the bin (Delete session). The Delete recurring session window opens.
Calendar session window with the Delete session bin numbered 2

The bin, in a session opened in the calendar

  1. Choose which sessions to delete.
  2. Click Delete.
This is what happens with each option:
  • This session: the session is cancelled, not deleted. It disappears from the calendar and stays crossed out in the course’s session list. SmartCookie keeps its notes and attendance.
  • This and following sessions: that session and the following ones are deleted, with their notes.
  • All sessions: the whole series is deleted, including past sessions and their notes.
Deleted sessions can’t be recovered. A cancelled session has no button to bring it back. It comes back if you edit the series with This and following sessions or All sessions.

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Stop a session from repeating

The Custom recurrence rule window has a red bin at the top right (it’s not the Delete session one). If you click it and save the session, SmartCookie keeps only that session. It deletes every other session in the series, including past ones, with their notes.
To end a series and keep the past sessions, delete the first session you no longer want and choose This and following sessions.

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When the series reaches its end

A series has at most 52 sessions, and SmartCookie doesn’t extend it on its own or warn you when it ends. Check in your calendar when the last session is. Before that date, create a new session that repeats and starts after the last one: Repeat a session (recurring sessions).

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What you can’t do

  • You can’t move the whole series by dragging it in the calendar. Dragging only moves that session. To move the series, edit it.
  • SmartCookie doesn’t email your students when you change or delete a session. If you have Google Calendar connected, Google tells your students who have an email. If not, let them know yourself.
Last modified on September 30, 2026