Filling it in at the start of term
- Find your schedule as the school gives it out, on paper or in the student portal, and the bell times if your school publishes them.
- Pick By period if every day follows the same numbered periods, or By time if your classes start at different times on different days. Set the number of periods and the lunch row, or the first and last hour of the grid.
- Open Bell times and enter the start of the first class, the class length and the minutes between classes, then press Fill in times. Correct any period that runs differently, such as a longer first period.
- Type your classes, one per line, like "Mon Wed Fri 2 Math, Room 12, Ms Lee". Check the line under the box: it says how many classes were read and lists every line it could not place, with the reason.
- Download the PDF and print it at 100 % or actual size, so the rows keep their height for handwriting.
You can also print the grid blank and fill it in by hand during the first week, while rooms and timetables may still change.
Color coding your classes
Each class you type gets its own shade of the color you choose and a small shape in the corner of its cells. The shade lets you spot a subject across the week at a glance; the shape keeps two classes apart when the printer only has black ink. The same shade and shape appear in the teachers box or in the key under the grid.
If you fill in a blank grid by hand, you can do the same with highlighters: one color per subject, used on the schedule, the folder or binder tab and the notebook for that class. Keep the list of colors in the Notes box so you use the same ones all term.
A copy for the binder and a copy for home
Print two copies. One goes in the front of the binder or planner you carry, where you can check the next room between classes. The other goes on the fridge, a desk or the inside of a closet door at home, so the people you live with can see when you have a late class, a practice or a free period without asking.
Use the teachers box for the details you need when you are not at school: how to reach each teacher, their office hours or the day they offer extra help. Write in only what the school itself shares with you, such as a school email address. With more than one child at school, print one schedule per child in a different color.
College schedules that change from day to day
On a college or university schedule a class may meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday for 50 minutes and another Tuesday and Thursday for 75. That is what the By time grid is for. Set From and To so that your earliest class and your latest one fit, and type each class with its days and times, like "TTh 10:30-11:45 Calculus I, Room 210" or "Mon 1:30pm-4:20pm Chemistry lab". If your course listing uses letter codes such as MWF or TR, you can copy them as they are.
Times without am or pm are read in the way that fits your grid: "1:30-2:45" on a grid from 8 am to 5 pm lands in the afternoon. Labs and office hours can go on the grid too. When two entries overlap on a day, they share the column side by side, which is also a quick way to see a clash before you register.
When your schedule changes
Schedules change: a class moves to another room, a section closes, you switch an elective in the first weeks or a new term starts. Keep the lines you typed in a note on your phone or computer. When something changes, paste them back into the box, edit that line and print a new copy, and throw the old one away. Write the date of the change in the Notes box to know which copy is the newest.
For a one-off change, like an exam in a different room or a shortened day, a pen note on the printed copy is enough.
Tools and templates that go with it
The study planner is the other half of the schedule: its weekly study schedule is an hour grid for planning your own study time around your classes, with an assignment tracker, an exam overview and a term overview on further pages. Copy your fixed classes into it first, then block study time in the gaps.
For study sessions, the focus timer switches between focus time and breaks for you, 25 minutes of focus and a 5-minute break by default with a 15-minute break after every fourth session, and you can change each length. The online timer is a plain countdown: set minutes and seconds or pick a preset, and an alarm rings when the time is up.
For grades, the GPA calculator works out your unweighted and weighted grade point average from letter grades and credits, with extra points for honors, AP and IB classes, and your cumulative GPA. The final grade calculator shows the score you need on a final exam to reach the class grade you want, from your current grade and how much the final counts.
Frequently asked questions
Is the class schedule free?
Yes. Print it at the start of every term, for every child in the family or for a whole class, as often as you need. There is no signup and no watermark; one small line at the bottom of the page names our website.
Do I have to type in my classes?
No. With the box left empty you get a clean grid to fill in by hand, with the period numbers or the hours already printed. If you do type your classes, put one per line: the days, then the period or the time, then the class, with the room and the teacher after commas, like "Mon Wed Fri 2 Math, Room 12, Ms Lee". The preview shows each line in its cell as you type.
Should I pick the grid by period or by time?
Pick By period when your school day is split into numbered periods that repeat every day. You can add the bell times for each period, and a lunch row. Pick By time when your classes start at different times on different days, for example a college timetable with some classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and others on Tuesday and Thursday. Classes then become blocks on an hour grid, from the start to the end time you type.
How do I type a class that meets on several days or runs for two periods?
Put all the days at the start of the line: "Mon Wed Fri", "Mon-Thu" or the letter codes from a course catalog, like "MWF" or "TTh" (R also works for Thursday). Leave the day out, or write "daily", and the class goes on every day of the grid. For a double period write both numbers, like "Tue 3-4 Chemistry lab"; the two cells merge into one. On the time grid, two classes that overlap on the same day sit side by side in the column.
What do the shades and small shapes mean?
Every class you type gets its own light shade of the color you pick and a small shape in the corner of its cells: a filled or an empty circle, square, triangle or diamond. The same shade and shape stand next to the class in the teachers box, or in the key under the grid when that box is off. The shapes keep the classes apart on a black and white printout too.
Why are some characters missing from my classes?
The PDF uses a standard font that covers English and most Western European letters, but no emoji and no other scripts such as Greek, Cyrillic or Chinese. Those characters are left out, a few rare accented letters lose the accent, and a note under the fields tells you when that happens. The preview shows the text exactly as it will print.