• View by the month, week, or day.

• Automatically download lesson plans from a large number of curriculums. Yes, this saves all the work of adding them in manually!
• Adjust them easily to accommodate your schedule.
• Get separate calendars and logins for each member of the family. Parents can add assignments or chores, and each student only sees their calendar.
• Available on tablets and mobile devices.
• Send emails or texts to your students’ phones to remind them of their assignments.
• Add links for your students to click and access their online materials seamlessly. Want to add a documentary to watch? Add the web link easily if you need to add a book to read or a project to do, describe and list all required materials with the click of a button.
• Cancel, reschedule or move assignments around as your day or week changes.
• Fast and simple integration with Google Calendar or iCal for Apple devices
• Custom Grading by grade percentage, class, or group of grades and automatically computers average grades based on your customizations.
• Color-code your calendar by class, activity, category, or student
• Share your calendar with friends doing a similar curriculum. In addition, teachers can also easily share it with their students using daily automatic emails.

• Organize and name your classes. When you add a class, you can add helpful information such as the time it starts/ends, teacher, and room.
• Organize your assignments. When adding assignments to your schedule, myHomework allows you to determine their importance, how often it occurs, the due dates, and assign it to a class.
• View your calendar by the week or day. It shows upcoming classes and assignments.
• Find your teachers in the app. Some teachers use this app to share their calendars for assignments or send out announcements.
• View your assignments by priority or due dates. Get your most important work done first.
• Integrate with Google Calendar and sync across all devices. Get fast and easy access to your schedule right at your fingertips.

In short, they are both excellent options for students and teachers to keep up with schedules, grades, and assignments.  

A Traditional To-Do List

Sometimes a simple to-do list is what you need. If dealing with apps is too time-consuming or you don’t know what you’re doing a week from now, it’s a great idea to have a goal for the day. Additionally, if you’re like me and checking off a box gives you a rush of serotonin, then this is the way to go.

While many apps act as virtual to-do lists, such as Google Tasks, there are still the traditional pen-to-paper routes. Ultimately, both are great options as long as they work for you! But here are some benefits to using a to-do list:

• You’re free to delegate and organize your time freely. You’re not stuck in your plan and can arrange your list based on your own priority or how your day shifts.
• Accountability. You wrote it down as a goal, and now you have to decide to achieve your goals.
• A sense of accomplishment. You feel accomplished as you visibly see your list diminish as you complete tasks.

Sometimes, breaking your day into manageable activities can keep you from becoming overwhelmed. For instance, breaking an essay into separate tasks like researching, intro, separate paragraphs, and citing sources can help make each section a short, easy task instead of a long grueling one.

The same goes for parents in any aspect of your life. Breaking down massive chores, like cleaning the entire kitchen, seems less daunting when divided into smaller tasks like doing the dishes, wiping the counters, sweeping the floor, etc.

Note Taking

Keeping your information organized is also key when learning and completing assignments. Finding the information you need with ease will help you streamline your process.

And sometimes, it’s hard to keep papers organized or safe from external impacts such as water damage or simply losing information because of disorganization.

Digitizing Documents

One way to remedy this problem is to digitize your notes and documents.

JotNot is an app that is available on iOS and Android. This app takes clear images of your documents so that they’re safe and searchable right from your device without having to shuffle through papers. By filing your notes and documents into folders on your phone, you can easily access them later when needed.

In addition, taking pictures with JotNot allows you to create your child’s portfolio and save them for future reference. Try naming each year for each child as a separate file.

Aside from schoolwork, JotNot is also great for parents to digitally keep pictures of art or projects, doctor’s notes, report cards, transcripts, or receipts for taxes.

Similar programs like Scanner Pro are also very useful.

Organized Binder

If you prefer physical properties, then keeping an organized binder with separate sections for your classes or each student is the way to go. You have a lot of different options for managing a physical binder. When choosing which to use, keep in mind your child’s “neatness” and organizational strengths based on age and educational level. For instance, young children can start with spiral notebooks. Eventually, you can place them in a larger organizer to keep them together.

• One big binder. You can have a catch-all binder for all of your classes and designate a section for each class. However, the downside is that your syllabus, notes, and assignments are all shuffled together.
• Multiple separate binders. This feature is an excellent option if you need to break a class down into individual sections within itself. For example, you can separate chemistry into labs, notes, assignments, and extra notepaper.
• Separate binders for particular days. Some brick-and-mortar schools and homeschoolers learn certain subjects on certain days. You could break your binder up into different days and their subjects.

Be sure to label each binder with the subjects, your name, and the day that you’re using the binder.

For children in brick-and-mortar schools, options may depend on the requirements given by the school system. For homeschooled children, consider how best to easily access information for end-of-year portfolio reviews and record keeping as required by your state (be sure to check your state’s requirements).

Finally, there are many ways to stay organized for learning or planning. Whether online or on paper, parents, teachers, and students can all benefit from organized learning schedules. Use what works for you or your family. Be sure to file what you have in the correct place and set reminders for your assignments, so you’re prepared.

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