About this collection
A class schedule is the smallest, hardest-working printable in a student's binder. It is the answer to "what room am I in next?" and it deserves to be designed well.
Our schedules come in the major school formats: a 7-period bell schedule, an A/B-day block schedule, a college MWF/TR schedule, and a tutor or homeschool weekly schedule.
Further reading: a longer essay on building a personal planning system that pairs well with this collection.
Inside the collection are seven meaningful formats. The 7-Period bell schedule is the standard K–12 layout with seven or eight numbered periods down the left and five days across the top. The Block A/B layout alternates between two daily schedules, common in high schools that run 90-minute blocks. The College MWF/TR layout reflects the typical American college week where some classes meet Monday/Wednesday/Friday and others meet Tuesday/Thursday. The Homeschool layout has flexible time blocks rather than fixed periods. The Tutor layout has a row per student and a column per day. The Pocket-Sized format is a 3×5 index-card variant. The Wall-Sized format is sized to print on 11×17 (or two 8.5×11 sheets taped together) and is the right format for a classroom wall.
Every variant has a row for each class period (or block), a column for each day of the week, a teacher and room number cell, a locker-and-pin reminder corner, a bus and pickup time line, and a blank backside for after-school activities. The locker reminder is a small detail that the people who use these the most ask for; the bus and pickup time line is the kind of thing that gets forgotten on day one and asked about every day after.
We design these for elementary, middle, high school, college, teacher, homeschool, and tutor audiences. The elementary variant uses larger row heights and color-coded subjects; the high-school variant has smaller row heights to fit eight periods cleanly; the college variant has a half-hourly column; the teacher variant has a planning-period row in addition to teaching periods.
What's typically inside a class schedule printable
- A row for each class period
- A column for each day of the week
- A teacher and room number cell
- A locker-and-pin reminder corner
- A bus and pickup time line
- A blank backside for after-school activities
How to choose the right one
Pick a bell-schedule format for K–12 with seven or eight periods. Pick a block-schedule format for A/B-day high schools. Pick the college layout if your week mixes MWF and TR classes.
A note on the underlying practice
Study skills or study strategies are approaches applied to learning. Study skills are an array of skills which tackle the process of organizing and taking in new information, retaining information, or dealing with assessments. They are discrete techniques that can be learned, usually in a short time, and applied to all or most fields of study. More broadly, any skill which boosts a person's ability to study, retain and recall information which assists in and passing exams can be termed a study skill, and this could include time management and motivational techniques.
Background context drawn from open Wikipedia summaries; the printables themselves are the editorial work of the PlannerNest team.
Related: a deeper guide to the methodology behind these printables.