Track Your Academics with monday.com
A Free-To-Use Website with Tools to Help You Graduate
How do you track how you are doing in school? How do you plan what classes you will take in what semester, and see when classes are available? Let me tell you this, tracking your progress is messy. You have to consistently run audits to check credits and requirements, and not always are those audits PDF-compatible. You likely have messy, cross-over lists of courses that count for what requirements that you want to take versus what will be counted as elective. My fellow students, I want to introduce you to a tool I’ve been using to track my progress here at the University of Utah: Monday.com
The best way I can describe monday.com as a multi-use workflow tracker used to track progress, see who is online and working on what, and as a home base for work. If you want to learn more about monday.com, I recommend you read their About page.
I discovered monday.com on social media one day about 2 years ago, though I can’t remember if it was on Facebook or Instagram. I was already using Google Spreadsheets at the time to watch my progress on what classes I needed to take for what major, and let me tell you it was messy. Monday.com has a free student plan so I took a plunge and poked around. I discovered I could use monday.com for a lot more than simply tracking where I am at in my degree track. I still use Spreadsheet but for scheduling only since I can lay it out in blocks.
As I said above, there is a free student plan. You need to prove that you are a student at an accredited university to gain access to the free plan. I used my student email to show proof. Keep in mind you only get access to the minimal resources and not a lot of bells and whistles. For me, though, it’s all that I need to track my academic progress.
Additionally, I’ve noticed monday.com is a universal tool not just for tracking your degree progress. It’s open to setting up a workflow to track any personal projects you may have going, extracurriculars, even to manage any clubs you have leadership. There are so many templates you can choose from! For now, the only other projects I have been using monday.com to track are for managing my blog content here as well as tracking what videos I am working on for my youtube channel. I also use monday.com to track potential contacts, so if you’re looking to be an affiliate or apply for any sponsorships, monday.com is a good tool for tracking anything you apply for (see here for a similar internships template provided by monday.com)
Monday’s basic boards are where you can track items, and there are various different columns that can allow you to customize what you want to track with the homework. There are templates that are student-friendly including a student life tracker, an internship tracker, and I have my own academic requirements layout I use versus the template the site has built.
A Snapshot of how I organized my academic schedule with my current summer semester classes as well as fall semester. The important takeaway is figuring out what metrics are important to you that you want to track. I track how many credits I’m taking and what requirements are fulfilled, as well as when those classes are available.
If you’re looking for a tool to help you manage your homework, your academic progress, or even to track where you’ve applied for internships and jobs, monday.com is a useful and versatile tool for whatever you may need. Monday.com also has their own education program where you can learn how monday.com can be applied to your department or job called Monday-U. Remember that monday.com is free to students, but if you need a specific plan to help with your needs then they have different pricing plans that can be charged annually or monthly.
I am not affiliated or partnered with monday.com in anyway, I just love using this tool for not just managing my academics, but also my website and my RoseTheWolf36© brand.