Homework Planner Printable: the Free 2-Page Homework Tracker (Print to PDF)

A homework planner earns its keep on Tuesday night, not the first day of school. This one prints on two sheets. Page one is a homework table with ten rows: subject, assignment, due date, and a circle you fill when it is done. Page two holds a this-week box for the four things that must happen by Friday and a long-project box for the paper or project that would otherwise live entirely in your head. No app, no login, no battery. If you want the same rows in software, the Notion dashboard at the bottom carries them into a linked workspace; the printable below works on its own.

How to use this page: hit print, write the week at the top of page one, and add a row the moment an assignment lands, not the night before it is due. The done circle gets filled, not the row deleted, so a finished week still shows what it cost. Page two is where the week gets shaped: the four-line this-week box forces the short list, and the long-project box holds the thing with a deadline too far out for the table. Printing to PDF from any browser works if you plan on a screen instead of paper.

Page one: the homework table

Week of:      Name:  

Homework - one row per assignment, fill the circle when it is done

SubjectAssignmentDueDone

Ten rows covers a real week: five subjects carrying two assignments each is a heavy load already, and a lighter week just leaves rows empty. The due date gets its own column instead of riding along in the assignment text, because sorting by due date is the whole point of the table. The done column is a circle, not a checkbox, so filling it in feels like closing something rather than toggling it.

Page two: this week and the long project

Week of:      Page 2 of 2

This week - the four things that must happen by Friday

Long project - three lines, three chunks, three self-set deadlines

The four lines are the point: a week with more than four must-haves is a week to renegotiate, and writing them here separates the musts from the table's ordinary flow. The long-project box takes the assignment whose due date is weeks out. Three lines means it gets broken into three chunks with a deadline you set yourself, which is the only version of a long project that ever moves. When a chunk lands inside the current week, it earns a row on page one like everything else.

Four tips for running the sheet

Opinions from use, not science - your workload, your call.

  1. Write the due date, not the date the assignment was given. A table sorted by when things landed tells you nothing on Thursday. Writing the due date in its own column means one glance down the column shows what is about to bite. If two rows share a due date, that is the week's real shape, and it is better to see it on Monday.
  2. Put an hour guess next to big assignments when you write the row. "Essay" takes however long it takes; "essay - 3 hrs, split over two nights" takes three hours over two nights. The guess is a write-in, not a promise, but it is the difference between an evening that ends and one that doesn't.
  3. Give the sheet twenty minutes on Sunday. Scan next week's due dates from the syllabi or the class pages, write the rows that already exist, and pick the four for the this-week box. Twenty minutes on Sunday beats ten minutes of late-night dread every weeknight. If the sheet only gets looked at during panic week, it is a poster, not a planner.
  4. Break every long project into three lines on day one. A project with one due date three weeks out will not be started in week three either. Three lines forces three chunks with three self-set deadlines, and each chunk that enters the current week gets a real row in the table. The box is small on purpose.

One subject, three printable planners

This site has three planners that answer different questions. The semester planner printable is term-level: course table, exam dates, and grade targets, printed once and taped above the desk. The weekly planner printable covers seven days of everything, homework or not. This homework tracker goes one level under the term sheet: it is the page that answers "what is due tomorrow" without unlocking anything. They stack: semester sheet on the wall, this one on the desk. If you would rather run the whole system in one place, the Student Dashboard below carries the same bones into Notion: an assignments database with course, due date, and status on every row, a weekly planning routine, and a dashboard that shows this week at a glance.

Honest note: this page is a homework planner sheet. It does not sync with a school portal, it does not send reminders, and it does not calculate grades; the due dates are only as good as what you copy in, and the done circle marks the row, not the learning. The sheet tracks what you give it - subjects, assignments, due dates, and the chunks you break long projects into - on paper you can read without unlocking anything.

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