35+ FREE back-to-school Notion templates: university & college students [Autumn Semester 2023]
Back to school season is coming, and if you are a student in 2023, you should consider upgrading your study on Notion.
In summary, they are great for both school and university uses.
The platform is widely used by so many learners in the world as it is so versatile, and can be accessed anywhere, any time as long as you have wifi.
PLUS, if you are a planner that likes to plan your semester ahead, taking notes, tracking grades and have multiple extracurricular activities or you love to organize your life together before the semester starts, Notion is a platform worth considering.
But setting up a new one could be time-consuming and to be fair, we are still in our summer era SO I’ve organized the best Notion templates for you and they are all FREE for your broke-asses :).
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Dashboard Templates for Students — 20 templates total
Modern & Aesthetic Notion Student Template (1)
Best Use For:
- Organize your assignments, classes, and notes
- Keep track of your day-to-day tasks
- See your upcoming assignments at a glance.
What’s included:
- Classes pages
- Semesters pages 🏫
- Notes Organizer
- Assignments Tracker
- To-Do List
- Clubs + Activities mark
- Job Applications
Personal experiences:
I’ve used this already in my school day, I love that it has so many essentials for all the basics you need for your study.
Very simple and easy to navigate while also have more complicated functions that can help you learn more about Notion.
Rate: 5/5
Free Sakura-Themed Study Zone Notion Template for Students (2)
Best Use For:
- All-in-one views of all your schedule and to-do list
- Organize your subjects
- Very beginner-friendly if you just start Notion
What’s included:
- Subject pages
- Flip clocks
- All-in-one dashboard
- to-do lists
- Pomodoro clock
- Clock and Life Progress Widgets
Personal experiences:
It’s one of the basic templates for learners of all ages: middle school, high school, colleges.
I’m not a fan of pink but all the colors really sync together which I appreciate.
But if you are looking for something more complicated for more needs, this is not for you.
Rate: 3/5
no-stressed second brain(3)
Best Use For:
- Managing tasks effectively in your day to day
- Tracking progress towards goals
- Noting and Organizing important ideas and thoughts
- Maintaining and keeping track of good habits
What’s included:
- All-in-one navigation for PARA methods
- Goal and Project Pages
- Task Pages
- Notes and Resources Pages
- Habit Tracker
- Progress chart
- Daily Journal Section
Personal Experience:
This is a template that I created myself, it is very powerful and based on years of Notion-using experiences and hours of researching.
I’ve used it on my day to day because I have many projects going on in my life and if you have a busy lifestyle where you are continuously having different projects. This template will be a game changer for you .
Although this is not an ALL-FREE template, I usually open giveaway to access it so please check this link on how you can get it.
Notion Template: School Dashboard (4)
Best Use For:
- Those who have many online classes
- All learners from middle school and up to Post grads
- Timebox schedule lovers
- Those who have a hard time to focus on their tasks
What’s included:
- Timebox section
- Subject pages
- Class notes pages
- All-in-one-place dashboard
Personal Experience:
I absolutely love the time-box method, if you are struggling to finish all the tasks in your to-do lists, you should definitely try this method. In a nutshell, you plan your tasks with a duration in mind, with this method, you are guaranteed to finish all tasks by correctly estimating the time you finish a task.
Rate: 3/5
| medicine | (5)
Best Use For:
- Med students or pre-med students
- Academic-heavy students
- Aesthetic lovers but not too overwhelm
- Exceeding the basic function of a student template with more personal pages
What’s included:
- Course & Assessment Tracker
- Lecture Database
- Clinical Skills & Placement Database
- Extra-Curricular Database
- Manuscript & Abstract Tracker
Personal Experience:
This template is helpful even if you don’t have a med background, with basic functionalities that you look for in a student template like class, notes, subject, etc — you will definitely find it helpful. In addition, you can also have a lot more pages like CV, references, apartment hunting and journaling.
Rate: 4/5
A+ Student Planner (6)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginners
- Those have a hard time to focus
- Minimalist
What’s included:
- Notebook page
- Assignment and Exam databases
- Grades database
- Contact database
- Homework database
Personal Experience:
Another simple template for students that’s worth considering for Notion beginners as it has all the basic functionalities for your day-to-day student life. However, as your life becomes more complicated like additional projects, club activities or internships, this template will grow out of your interest.
Rate: 2/5
Aesthetic (7)
Best Use For:
- Intermediate Notion users
- Students with complicated needs
- Planner lovers
What’s included:
- Course database
- Calendar schedule
- To-do list (tagging according to subjects)
- Class notes database
- Task management
- New skill approach tips
Personal Experience:
This template is honestly a bit messy for new Notion users, however, they have a lot of gems with advanced filter options on your to-do list and task management. Hence, you will also have a step-to-step framework when you are planning to learn new courses, skills.
Rate: 2/5
Janice Studies’ student dashboard (8)
Best Use For:
- New to Intermediate Notion users
- Aesthetic lovers
- Note lovers
What’s included:
- one easy-to-use central dashboard
- Section for daily tasks and to-dos
- Course database
- Notes database
- Upcoming assignments & exams (with alerts)
- embedded pomodoro time and study playlist, and many more widgets
Personal Experience:
I really love the minimalist but also cute aspect of it. Even though the template is quite simple and does not touch on many areas of student’s life besides their study, I really love how the creator organizes each page so each is optimized to jot down information instead of the hassle of running through different databases. Plus, super easy to navigate — perfect for new Notion users.
Rate: 3/5
Seasonal work+life space (9)
Best Use For:
- Intermediate Notion users
- Aesthetic lovers
- Want to incorporate study, personal and work lives in one template
- Productivity enhancement needs
What’s included:
- All-in-one dashboard
- Project, task and goal management
- Knowledge tracker
- Timebox planner
- Schedule planner
- Habit tracker
- Journal tracker
- Trip, Movie list tracker
- Manifestation page
- Career enhancement page
Personal Experience:
This is a template that I’ve created for those who love both aesthetic and functional space. I’ve combined both work, study and personal area so you can enhance your productivity, uplevel your skill and your career while also having the space for you to take on your personal life. This template is FREE with a discount code if you follow instructions on my social media.
Rate: 4/5
Pre-med dashboard (10)
Best Use For:
- Pre-med preparation
- Notion beginners
- Step-by-step pre med guide
What’s included:
- GPA/ classes tracker
- MCAT step-by-step guide
- Experience/ Leadership/ Community Service/ Research/ Recommendation pages
- Detailed guide on how to get into medicine
Personal Experience:
This template is really designed for pre-med students so skip if you want :)) But I really appreciate each section the creator does for pre-med students and their template also proves a point on why Notion is so worthy to consider because it is not only a planning tool but it also acts like a mini e-book, guide.
Rate: 1/5 (only because it’s only for pre-med)
Christine Tay’s all-in-one planner (11)
Best Use For:
- Cute aesthetic lovers
- Love to see all-in-a-glance dashboard
- Only need basic features
- Intermediate Notion users
What’s included:
- To-do lists
- Daily check-in
- Monthly overview
- Habit tracker
- Brain dump
- Wishlist, recipe
- Book list
Personal Experience:
It’s so pretty — I can’t — I just love a pretty dashboard. However, on the functional side, it only has basic features such as planner, several databases and several to-do lists. Moreover, the navigation from one page to another could be quite confusing and that’s the reason why it might not be for Notion newbies.
Rate: 2/5
[Free Template] Student starter pack (12)
Best Use For:
- Notion newbies
- Simplistic and Functional lovers
- No-direction-for-new-semester students
- Notion new users
What’s included:
- Preparation with Intentional objective building page
- Information tracker
- Class/ Assignment schedule
- Reading list
- Pomodoro study session
- Backpack list
Personal Experience:
This is a very straightforward template, a very cool point that I appreciate about this template is it guides students to set one goal to one skill and simple ways to meet their goals. Because of that, all of the pages are connected to each other as well and they are very easy to navigate. That’s why Notion new users with specific uses for a FREE student template would appreciate this template.
Rate: 3/5
Student Dashboard by Jan Kella (13)
Best Use For:
- Notion intermediate users
- Simplistic-dashboard lovers
- All-in-one-dashboard lovers
- Basic student template features
- Middle school and High school students
What’s included:
- All-in-one dashboard for subject, Timebox schedule, Upcoming assignments
- Subject list
- Class schedule
- Upcoming assignments list
- Upcoming quizzes +exams list
- Pomodoro widget
- High School’s admission list
Personal Experience:
Another straightforward template for your study’s basic features. But unlike Template (12), the dashboard is designed in a very interactive way and you can almost see what’s coming next in class schedule, exams and quick links to different subjects. However, the template is really heavily designed for students in middle school and high school as they don’t have much complication in their lifestyles like university students do but overall, a very great template.
Rate: 4/5
Life and school management for students (14)
Best Use For:
- Notion newbie users
- Simple to-do list lovers
- Students of all ages
- Plant lovers
What’s included:
- All-in-one dashboard with lots of memo notes and to-do lists
- Lots of cute widgets
- Week view, database and planner
- Course database and calendar view
- Library database
- Product, Wardrobe, Expense trackers
Personal Experience:
Another cute and aesthetic template. I really love all the gifs and widgets placed across different pages. All the features are quite basic but they are organized in a very functional way. For example, under week view, you get both the calendar view and your own planner for each day. Hence, everything is easy to navigate and understand — so it is very easy to learn for Notion newbies. However, as I said, there are only a few basic functionalities and setup so it is not that useful for students/ individuals with a more complicated lifestyle besides their study.
Rate: 3/5
Notion School OS (15)
Best Use For:
- Notion newbie users
- Minimalistic style
What’s included:
- Clean Dashboard to keep track of your pending assignments, classes and subjects.
- Teachers CRM, so you can easily find their contact information.
- Lecture notes hub and assignments tracker
Personal Experience:
This is again a very simple Notion template that is basic, easy to navigate and easy to learn for Notion newbies. But to be honest, because I have come across too many templates, this is not particularly a strong one.
Rate: 2/5
School Dashboard (16)
Best Use For:
- Notion newbie users
- Galaxy style
What’s included:
- Course database
- Assignment database
- Academic long-term planning page
- Course schedule for each semester
- Class notes for every course.
Personal Experience:
This “galaxy” template works best when you turn your Notion to dark mode — it will look Magical. Beside the aesthetic part, it is a very simple and basic-functional template with all the features you need for your semester’s study plan.
Rate: 2/5
University Hub (17)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginner — intermediate users
- University students
- From-freshman-to-graduation students
What’s included:
- At-a-glance dashboard
- Courses database
- Lessons database
- Chapters & Modules database
- Exams database
- Tasks database
- Professors database
- Job Search page with a free Canva Resume template
Personal Experience:
5,274 downloads with 34 ratings, I must say this template is one of the most impressive templates out there. It has so many useful features that are necessary for your university life especially if you plan to take it seriously. But I think the coolest point must be the dashboards,they are built in a way that you can see what’s coming next and plan according to that.
Rate: 4/5
Student Dashboard (18)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginner — intermediate users
- Students of all ages
- Step-by-step planner
What’s included:
- Semester View
- Daily Planner with Note taking
- Organize your classes
- Plan long term course plan
- Task Tracker
- Campus Involvement Dashboard
Personal Experience:
This is actually one of my favorite Notion creators. Beside the very basic functionalities that need to have for a Student Notion template, what I really appreciate about this template is the task tracker — helping you to plan step by step to reach your goal.
Rate: 5/5
Course schedule (19)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginner — intermediate users
- Calendar lovers
What’s included:
- Course database
- Calendar view
- Kanban view
- Advanced filter for subject, lesson, exam, assignments
Personal Experience:
For those who just like to see everything on a calendar view, this template is for you. But beside that, I don’t think it is that exciting but I used to use it during times I just need to see all my school deadlines on one calendar so that’s why I think it is worth mentioning.
Rate: 1/5
Notion Planners (20)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginner — intermediate users
- Timebox planners
- Minimalistic lovers
What’s included:
- Daily planner page with timebox
- Weekly planner page with a week agenda
- Monthly planner page with a month agenda
Personal Experience:
It is so straightforward to use, you won’t need any minute to figure it out — that’s why you will love it if you like to open a new page to plan (imagine it like a book of your own). However, all of these pages are not linked together or a database for you to track your plans. Plus, it is not specific designed for students, it’s more of an overall life planner.
Rate: 1/5
Ultimate Tasks (21)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginner — intermediate users
- Emoji aesthetic lovers
- Task management
What’s included:
- master task database, along with all of the “smart views” that a user coming from traditional task management apps would expect — Today, Tomorrow, Next 7 Days, etc.
- Projects database
- Tasks database that sync to a big project
- Sub-tasks databases with task priorities, recurring tasks, tagging
- Archived tasks for unused tasks.
Personal Experience:
This is made by the Notion KING, Thomas Frank is well-known Notion and productivity guru so his template is proven to be useful — which it is. I love how it is packed with instructions and how every databases, page are linked together so you know you are on the right track and doing everything intentionally. But again, not specifically designed for students’ life.
Rate: 4/5
Free Notion Templates for Students with More Specific Purposes — 16 templates total
Due to each of these templates being designed with specific purposes in mind, I think it’s quite unfair to rate them with my personal experience so there’s no rating here. Just scroll and see which one matches your needs.
Grade Calculator (22)
Best Use For:
- Grade-conscious students
- Want to calculate how each assignment contribute to your overall score
What’s included:
- Essay page with grade calculator
Notion Smart Goals Tracker (23)
Best Use For:
- SMART goal enthusiasts
- Framework lovers
- Habit Tracking
What’s included:
- Goals Tracker
- Goal evaluation template (S.M.A.R.T)
- Habit Tracker
- Template available in 2 themes: Minimal and Emoji Funky
Personal experience:
If you are a person struggling to keep track and follow your planned goals, you should consider using this framework. This template is perfect if you have a certain goal with constant milestones to maintain. I’ve had a great time using it when I lacked some consistency in my life and 7,003 people found the same.
Notion Book Tracker (24)
Best Use For:
- Building your own digital library of all your books
What’s included:
- Book database with filters and tags for genres, statuses
- Quote capture database
Weekly Dashboard + Task Database (25)
Best Use For:
- A weekly planner
- Hard to keep track their tasks and projects
- Want to have an all-in-one task+project management system
- Notion beginner-intermediate users
What’s included:
- * Weekly Agenda
- * Task and Project Database
- * Master Tags Database
- * Notes Page
- * Habit Tracker
Personal experience:
As the person who built my task/project/goal management template myself (you can see my 100% free discount in my Second Brain template and $3 paid template Seasonal work+life space, I really want to comment on the ease of this template. Everything is really easy to navigate, plus your weekly agenda which connects with a master task, project, and tags database so you can improve your task management journey better. However, all features are a bit outdated because the creator uploaded quite long ago so not much new and exciting functionalities are added.
Rate: 3/5 (a pretty decent FREE template for you to use)
Friends agenda Notion template (26)
Best Use For:
- Extroverts ( so not me haha)
- Networking purposes
Actually I think this template is really helpful if you are seeking to maintain several friendships to help you build your connection circle in the future.
What’s included:
- Friend database with name, phone, email, address, birthday and last meeting.
- 3 views provided: Birthdays calendar, Get in touch: a list of your friends sorted by last meeting, Next birthdays: birthdays in the next 30 days.
Pomodoro Task manager for Notion (27)
Best Use For:
- Struggle-with-focus individuals
- Pomodoro techniques lovers
- Struggle-with-completing-tasks individuals
- Notion beginners
What’s included:
- Different Pomodoro sections for each task database
Notion Bullet Journal (28)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginners
- Love-to-track their daily people
- Journaling lovers
What’s included:
- Daily Journal database
- Habit tracker
Spaced Repetition For Students (29)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginners
- Spaced repetition methods
- Struggle to remember or apply learned knowledge
Introduction of the Spaced Repetition Method: Simply reviewing your lessons in a pattern, like after a few days and coming back to review it again. This helps you remember things better and longer and less hard, especially so you don’t have to pull a full-nighter for your exams — please make your lives easier haha.
What’s included:
- Lecture with repetition database
- Review Tracker on Calendar view
Spaced Repetition Flashcards For Students (30)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginners
- Spaced repetition methods
- Struggle to remember or apply learned knowledge
- FLASHCARD lovers
It’s the same like the above version but in flashcard version
What’s included:
- New flashcard button
- Flashcard database
- Archive flashcard database
Computer Science Club Home (31)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginners
- Collaboration between club members
- Club organizers
- Middle-school to University students
Although this is named for the computer science club, by simply changing the name and some details in the template, you can use it for any club you are joining or organizing but again it will work best for a programming/science related club.
What’s included:
- News database
- Event database
- Resources page
Club home page (32)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginners
- Collaboration between club members
- Club organizers
- Middle-school to University students
I felt guilty for not being able to find a proper template for club users so after a few hours digging on the net, here is a one-fits-all club homepage for you.
What’s included:
- Club Mission page
- Members database
- Ideas database
- Meeting notes database
- Tasks database
- Finance & sponsorship page
- Promotional materials page
- External contacts database
Assignment Board (33)
Best Use For:
- Notion beginners
- Assignment tracker
- Minimalistic lovers
What’s included:
- New assignment button
- Assignment database with statuses, weekly, monthly and courses tags
Resources: Studies Hub (34)
Best Use For:
- Resources tracker
- Storing and tracking all your notes and study materials
What’s included:
- Timeline view of resources added
- Assignment database
- Note database
Notion Knowledge Vaults (35)
Best Use For:
- Resources tracker
- Storing and tracking all your notes and study materials
What’s included:
- Timeline view of resources added
- Assignment database
- Note database
Class notes (36)
Best Use For:
- A simple note database to capture all your notes
What’s included:
- Note database filtered by ‘type’, ‘class’
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