Setting up a Notion Dashboard for University

Setting up the Workspace

First click to create a new workspace and it’s going to ask you this question (above). I’d choose school so some things will be set up for you (more on that later!).

Then create a new page and drag it to the top — I also favourite my home page so it’s easily accessible.
Also remove any pages that are unnecessary — so for me this was the journal page — this isn’t a workspace for that.

Main page

What you want from a main page is a good overview of everything that you have without it being too cluttered.

My advice is to create 4 sections:

1. Course notes
2. Deadlines and important dates
3. Tasks to work on
4. Schedule

Course notes simply links to the pages / sections for that module. I’ve included course code and the title for that course.
If you’re in second year and have had notes from first year, or, if you’re wanting to organise by semester then you can make a separate page here for say “Year 1” and move those links for the previous courses inside it. This would leave you with the current courses showing.
E.g

Deadline and important dates

List in order when things are due whether that’s returning library books, essay deadlines, exam times or other specific dates you need to remember.

I used this for relevant tv show airing dates and times when I was at university too — like there being a showing of a Shakespeare production, or someone talking about the history of the English language.

Schedule is what it says on the tin.
What courses you have and when.
But I’d also build in study times, extracurricular and any other set-in-stone activities (like I did martial arts 3x a week so this was listed here).

This is just a quick example so you can see how it works. I also recommend making a page where you can have a more detailed schedule set up

Tasks to work on is a checkbox list with the top 3 or 5 Tasks you’re needing to work on. I used 3 personally because that made it less intimidating to look at and helped me focus in on what I really needed to be working on

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Course Pages

What you want here is again 4 main sections:

1. Important dates
2. Course info at a glance
3. Assignments
4. Class notes

Important dates are ones specific to that class eg deadlines, trips, relevant material dates like other seminars and conferences

Info at a glance is lecturer, any TAs and their info. Weighting if assignments, days class is on, course name and code

Table showing deadlines and assignment titles

Class notes table showing dates of note taken, specific topics covered that week and note title

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Assignment Pages

1. Deadline
2. Course title and code
3. Lecturer
4. How to submit
5. Assignment title
6. Assignment brief
7. Mark scheme if applicable
8. Relevant class notes
9. Relevant wider reading
10. Assignment outline
11. Bibliography
12. Link to page with written assignment

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