Does this work on the free Notion plan?

Yes. Notion is free for personal use, and students can verify for the education plan, but relations, rollups and formulas all work without it.

What if a module changes its weightings?

Edit the Weight % on the affected rows. Because Worth is a formula, every number that depends on it updates at once.

Should I track lecture notes here too?

Only the link to them. A notes database that you have to fill in during a lecture competes with actually listening. Put the note where you write it and link it to the course.

Why sort by weight instead of due date?

Due date tells you what is urgent. Weight tells you what is expensive. You need both, and the second one is the one no planner shows you.

Can I see my predicted grade?

Add a rollup on Courses that sums Worth. That total is the percentage points banked so far in that module — not a prediction, but a real number.

How to Make a Student Planner in Notion

Database 1 — Courses

Start here, because everything else hangs off it. Type /table, choose Table view, then New database, and name it Courses. Rename the Name column to Course, then add:

Code — Text. The thing written on the timetable, not the full module title.
Term — a Select: Autumn, Spring, Summer. This is how last year disappears without being deleted.
Teacher — Text, and their email if you ever need it at 11pm.

Four to six rows. If you are tempted to add a row for a club or a part-time job, resist — they do not have assignments with weights, and they will distort every rollup below.

Database 2 — Assignments

One row per thing you have to hand in. Name it Assignments, rename the Name column to Assignment, then add:

Course — a Relation pointing at Courses.
Due — a Date.
Status — a Select: Not started, In progress, Submitted, Marked.
Weight % — a Number. Copy this off the module handbook on day one, not the night before.
Grade % — a Number, filled in after it comes back.

The formula that changes how you prioritise

Add one more property to Assignments, type Formula, and name it Worth. Paste this:

prop("Weight %") * prop("Grade %") / 100

This is how many percentage points of the final module grade you actually banked. An 80% on something worth 5% earns you four points. A 55% on something worth 40% earns you twenty-two. Seeing those two numbers side by side is uncomfortable and useful.

Database 3 — Exams, with a countdown

Name it Exams, rename the Name column to Exam, then add a Course relation, a Date, and a Formula property called Days left with this expression:

dateBetween(prop("Date"), now(), "days")

It recalculates itself every day. A number that goes down on its own is a different kind of pressure from a date sitting in a calendar you have to open.

The one view you will actually open

In Assignments, add a view called Due this week. Set two filters: Due is within the next week, and Status is not Marked. Sort by Weight % descending, not by date. The biggest thing due this week goes to the top, which is almost never the thing you feel like starting.

See open work per course

Back in Courses, add a Rollup: Relation set to Assignments, Property to Assignment, Calculate to Count all. Name it Open work. Add a filter on that rollup's view so only unmarked assignments count, and a glance down the Courses table tells you which module is quietly piling up.

What to skip

Do not build a timetable in Notion. Your timetable is fixed, repeats weekly, and already exists in whatever app your university uses — rebuilding it by hand is a weekend you will not get back, and it will be wrong by week three. Notion is for the things that change: what is due, what it is worth, and what you got.

How to make a student planner in Notion