How to organise online classes using Notion
It’s been a mess. I get sent assignments over email, teams, WebUntis and some teachers just put random word docs with assignments in random folders and don’t tell us. So, to organise all that mess I use Notion. I have only had Notion for about a week but it has helped so much already so here is how I use it.
First, I made a table using a template.
Now that you have a table, click on “tags” in the first row, second column. A little window pops up. The you click on “multi select”. Now you can decide what you want to use that column for. I’m going to use “Files & Media” because that’s the what I find the most interesting about this app (other things like text or number are also available in Excel so why would you download a whole app when you can make a table in Excel as well)
Now click on a box in that column, you can add files and pictures now.
This is what it looks like of you add a picture and a file.
This is what my final table looks like:
I have a column for my classes and then for each I have my assignments that I still have to do, the once I finished and the corrections my teachers sent us. Every time now that I am sent a document by a teacher, I put it in here so that I don’t have to scroll through my mails or files to find it. Once my zoom classes start, I will probably add a column to put the links to the classes there. One could also add the teachers email addresses. Notion is also very cute looking if you want it to be. You can add emojis and headers and there are multiple colours for the background as well as the font (and there are multiple fonts). There are also many different templates so that you don’t have to start from scratch if you want to build a page. It also synchronises between devices.
(Note: I have no idea if your files are secure or anything. It’s not really something I care about (I know I should but I don’t) so if that’s important to you do your research.)