A digital academic planner follows the school year instead of the calendar year, from August or September to the next summer: semester overviews, monthly calendars, weekly pages and assignment trackers. Academic planner templates for iPad open in GoodNotes or Notability.
The 6 best digital academic planners for iPad and GoodNotes: a semester planner for college, student planners with class schedules and grades, subject notebooks, plus academic planner ideas and a one-evening semester setup.
A school year does not start in January, and a planner built around the calendar year can feel out of step by October. An academic planner runs from late summer to the next summer, with semester overviews, monthly calendars and weekly pages that line up with your classes. Below are my picks and related student roundups.
Weekly academic layouts with a column per class suit busy schedules. Monthly academic pages work for tracking exams and breaks. A semester overview at the front is handy for seeing every big deadline at once.
Copy every syllabus date into the monthly pages before classes get busy. Give each course one color and use it on the weekly pages too, so a glance shows which subject needs time. A short list of office hours and contacts on the first page saves searching later.
College and high school students, and parents who plan around the school calendar. Teachers often prefer a dedicated teacher planner with lesson grids instead.
Usually in July or August and ends the following June or July. Check the listing for the exact months before buying.
They work if your term starts at an unusual time or you want to reuse the file. You write the month names yourself.
Yes. Open the PDF from Files and choose GoodNotes, or import it from inside the app. Notability works the same way.