Planning tools that students will actually use
Most planning fails on the second week. A paper planner is forgotten in a locker; an app needs a login the student cannot remember; a spreadsheet is too much work to set up. The four tools on this page are built to be started in under two minutes and to produce something that can be printed and stuck to a wall, because a plan on the wall is the one that gets followed. They were four separate pages; they are now one because a student setting up a term needs all four in the same sitting, and a teacher recommending them needs one link.
The tools are aimed at the student, and they work for a parent or a teacher setting them up on a student's behalf. Nothing needs an account. Each tool keeps its work in the browser it was made in, so a student who uses the same laptop each day finds the list, the plan or the timetable waiting; the reading log and the blank planners print and are done.
The homework tracker
Add an assignment with its subject, a short name, a due date, a priority of high, medium or low, and a status of not started, in progress or done. The table sorts by due date, priority or status, and any unfinished row whose date has passed is marked overdue in red. That one feature is the point of the tool: a student who can see three overdue rows at the top of a list behaves differently from one who has a vague sense of being behind. Print the list without the buttons, print a blank weekly planner for a folder or a parent's fridge, or download the due dates as a calendar file.
For teachers, the tracker is a useful thing to set up with a student during a mentoring conversation. Enter the next two weeks of work together, print it, and review it at the next meeting. Because the data lives in the browser, do this on the student's own device rather than a shared classroom machine, or the list will not be there the next day.
Weekly study plans for exam season
The study plan is a grid: subjects down the side, the seven days across the top, hours in each cell. It totals each row and each column as you type. That arithmetic is the lesson. Students often plan more revision than a week that also contains school, sport and sleep can hold, and a total at the bottom of the column makes the problem visible before Monday. The planner starts from two hours on a school day and three at the weekend; change those to match the student.
Add each exam with its date and the list shows the days remaining, turning amber two weeks out and red in the final week. Auto-plan then fills the grid from today to the last exam, giving more time to the nearer exams, and Undo puts back what was there. A good routine is to make the plan on Sunday, print it, and tick cells as they are completed; a plan that is never adjusted was not a plan. Pair it with a spaced revision approach, revisiting each subject every two or three days rather than in one long block, which the grid makes easy to see.
Reading logs and class schedules
A reading log records what a student read and, ideally, what they thought of it. The maker lets you switch columns on and off, because the right log depends on the age: a first-grade log needs the title and a star rating a child can colour in; a middle-school log needs author, pages and dates so the teacher can see pace; a high-school log needs a notes column for a sentence of response. Choose a weekly log, a full page of rows or a monthly calendar, add a student name header, and print a class set. It prints blank and is filled in by hand; it can also be saved as a PNG.
The class schedule maker is the simplest tool on the page and the one students keep longest. Click a cell in the weekly grid, type the class name, and the tool gives that subject a colour and uses it wherever the subject appears. Time slots are flexible, so a school with fifty-minute periods and a college with ninety-minute blocks both fit. Save the finished timetable as a PNG and it becomes a phone lock screen; print it and it goes inside the front cover of the planner.
A note on privacy and on what these tools do not do
None of the planners sends anything to a server. Each one stores its work in the browser's local storage, which means it stays on that device and disappears if the browser data is cleared. None of them syncs between devices, sends reminders or integrates with a school's learning platform; they are paper-shaped tools that happen to be filled in on a screen. For quizzes and revision questions, the same site offers an AI quiz maker that turns notes, a PDF or a topic into a practice quiz, which is a natural next step once the study plan says it is time to revise.