One place to hold your whole course: the schedule, the team, the deadlines, FAQs, and the materials you inherited from previous instructors.
How to use this planner
- Fill in the tabs. Start with Overview, then add your teaching team, schedule, assignments, materials, student FAQs, meetings, and key deadlines. Everything is optional; fill in whatever helps you.
- Save your work with Download draft. Nothing you type is stored on this website. Download draft saves a small .json file to your computer, and that file is your saved copy.
- Continue later with Upload a saved draft. A saved draft means a file you previously downloaded with the Download draft button. Click Upload a saved draft, choose that .json file, and the planner fills itself back in exactly where you left off.
- Reusing last year's course? Open the Update dates tab, enter one date from last year and the day it becomes this year, and every date in your schedule, assignments, and key deadlines moves by that amount, with weekdays preserved.
- Generate documents. The Syllabus tab builds a print-ready syllabus from what you entered, Print summary makes a compact reference for your teaching team, and Download Excel exports the whole plan as a workbook with one sheet per tab.
Everyone who touches the course: co-instructors, TAs, graduate assistants, graders, and course support staff, along with what each person owns.
Every class meeting, live lecture, and asynchronous module. For live sessions, record who is leading and what will actually happen in the room.
Track each deliverable twice: once for the students (when it is due) and once for the team (who grades it and when grades must be posted).
Slides, readings, shared documents, videos, and quizzes, with where each one lives, who owns it, and whether it still reflects the current state of the field.
Questions that keep coming up. Once a question has appeared twice, write the answer here so the whole team gives the same one, then post it where students will see it.
The internal machinery: recurring staff meetings, Teams or Slack channels, shared drives, and mailing lists, so new team members can find everything on day one.
The dates that cannot slip: midterms, final projects, grade submission, add and drop dates, and anything the registrar cares about.
Add the narrative pieces here, then Generate syllabus assembles them with your schedule, team, assignments, and key dates into a print-ready document. Use your browser's print dialog to save it as a PDF. Sections you leave blank are simply left out.
Reusing last year's course? Enter any date from last year's schedule and the day it becomes this year, and the planner moves every date in your schedule, assignments, and key deadlines by that amount. Shifting by exactly 364 days keeps weekdays aligned, so Sundays stay Sundays.
Download a draft before you shift, just in case. Dates typed inside item titles, like "[Due Aug 31]", are plain text and stay as written; update those by hand in your learning platform when you copy the course forward.