Severn Planner: the free school planner that schedules your study time

Less planning. More progress. Planner pulls in your assignments and grades, looks at the time you actually have, and schedules the studying for you.

Free for students. Works with Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom and more.

Get started (opens the Planner web app)
Setup Guide
Planner for Mac

Works with

Canvas, Google Classroom, Schoology, Blackbaud, Brightspace, Moodle, Blackboard, ManageBac, Toddle, Veracross, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook.

Assignments aren't the hard part. Knowing when to do them is.

You already have the list. What's missing is a plan for when. Planner reads your assignments, your commitments, and your free time, and puts the work on specific days.

Assignments: synced from school, with time estimates.
Commitments: practice, clubs, work, everything else.
Free time: the gaps that are actually yours.

It plans around the rest of your life

Tell Planner when you have practice, work or clubs, and add goals of your own. Plan My Week finds time for your goals first, spreads them across the week, and fits school work around them.

Commitments. Practice, work, clubs and sleep are blocked off, so study sessions only go into time that's actually free.
Personal goals. Running 3 times a week, reading 20 minutes a day, college essays 2 hours a week. Plan My Week books these first.
Goal blocks. Drag a goal to another time in the Schedule and it stays there when you replan.
Not this week. Sick, away or swamped? Skip a goal for the week and its streak carries on.
Weekly review. Each week you see how every goal went, like "Run, 2 of 3". Hit a goal two weeks running and it gets a streak.

Connect your school once. Then forget about it.

A small browser extension brings your assignments and grades into Planner and keeps them current. You never give Planner your school password.

Canvas: assignments and grades.
Blackbaud: assignments and grades.
Schoology: assignments and grades.
Google Classroom: assignments and grades.
Calendar link: assignments and due dates from Brightspace, Moodle, Blackboard, ManageBac, Toddle, and Veracross.

The extension is Severn Planner Overlay on the Chrome Web Store. Chrome extensions only install on a computer.

Study groups and classmates

Find study group time: Tap Find group time on the Schedule and send the link to your group chat. Planner shows the times this week when up to four of you are free. Only free and busy times are shared.
Class Packs: Send a class's upcoming dates to your class chat as one link. Classmates can add them to their own Planner, even before they have an account. Your grades and notes stay private.
Paste a syllabus: Copy the dates from a syllabus, an email or a class announcement and paste them in. Each line becomes an assignment you check before anything is added.

Works everywhere you study

Web app: Works in any browser, on any computer. Open Planner
Mac app: A free app for macOS, with widgets. Get the Mac app
Chrome extension: Brings in assignments and grades from your school. Add to Chrome
iPhone and iPad: Add Planner to your Home Screen and it opens like an app. See how

Free, private and no AI

Free. No ads, no trial and no paid tier. Every student gets every feature.
No AI. Your plan comes from clear rules: what's due, how long it takes you, and when you're free.
Encrypted. Set a passphrase and your planner is encrypted on your device before it's saved.
No school password. You sign in to your school as usual. Planner never sees your password.

Built for the rest of school, too

Running late: tap Running late and the rest of today moves back 15 minutes, 30 minutes or an hour. Anything that no longer fits goes to your next free time.
Heavy weeks, caught early: if a week up to three weeks out has three or more tests, projects or essays, the dashboard warns you. Start earlier moves some of that work into the week before.
Estimates from your own times: how long Planner expects something to take comes from your own times for that kind of work in that class. Recent nights count most.
Exam mode: add an exam with just the class and date. Planner shows the study plan before booking it: a review for each topic, a practice test, and a recap the day before, under a daily limit.
Grade predictor and GPA goal: see what you need on the work that's left to hit the grade you want. Set a GPA goal and Planner shows the smallest grade changes that would get you there.
Streak & Stats: your streak, personal best, and study time by week and by class. Miss one day and your streak survives, once a week.
Quick Add: one line of plain English becomes an assignment. "Lab report Friday Chemistry" is enough.
Study timer & reminders: start a session straight from your plan, and get a nudge before anything is due.

Questions

Something else on your mind? Get in touch.

What is Planner?

A school planner that pulls in your assignments and grades and schedules study sessions for you, so you know what to work on and when.

How does automatic study planning work?

Tap Plan My Week. Planner checks what you have due, how long each item should take, and where you have free time around your commitments and connected calendars. It books study sessions into those gaps and splits bigger work over several days. You can drag any session or set its exact time.

Does Planner work with Canvas?

Yes. Enter your school's Canvas address, install the companion extension, and your assignments and grades sync in. No Chrome, or on an iPhone or iPad? Connect Canvas with an access token instead. It works in any browser.

Does Planner work with Blackbaud?

Yes. Install the Planner Overlay extension and open Blackbaud. Your assignments and grades sync in. Planner is not affiliated with Blackbaud.

Does Planner work with Schoology?

Yes. Enter your school's Schoology address, install the companion extension, and your assignments and grades sync in.

Does Planner work with Google Classroom?

Yes. Install the extension, pick Google Classroom in Planner, and click Allow. Then open Classroom and your assignments and grades come in. Planner only reads them and never changes anything.

Do I have to enter all my assignments manually?

No. Canvas, Blackbaud, Schoology, and Google Classroom assignments sync in, and Brightspace, Moodle, Blackboard, ManageBac, Toddle, and Veracross assignments come in with a calendar link. Anything else, like a practice or a personal deadline, takes a few seconds with Quick Add.

Does Planner know my grades?

Yes, once your school is connected. Your current grades sync in and the Grade Predictor shows how upcoming work could change them.

How does Planner protect my data?

Once you set a passphrase, your planner is encrypted on your device with AES-256 before it is saved, so the server only stores scrambled text. Planner asks you to set one after your first school sync. Storage runs on Google Firebase under an account only you can sign in to, and we never see your school password. Read the privacy policy for the full details.

Does Planner help me study for exams?

Yes. Turn on Exam mode in Settings → Appearance and an Exams page appears. Add an exam with the class and date, or pick a test already in Planner, and preview the study plan before anything is booked. Missed sessions can be rescheduled from today.

Can Planner plan things outside school?

Yes. Add personal goals, like running 3 times a week, reading 20 minutes a day, or college essays 2 hours a week. Plan My Week finds time for them first and fits school work around them. Drag a goal block in the Schedule and it stays there when you replan, the weekly review shows how each goal went, and Not this week skips a goal without breaking its streak.

Does Planner work on my phone?

Yes. Open app.severnplanner.com in your phone's browser. On an iPhone or iPad, add it to your Home Screen and it opens full screen like an app, with its own icon. There's no App Store app to download.

Does Planner use AI?

No. Planner doesn't use AI to plan. Your plan comes from your due dates, how long that kind of work has taken you and the free time you set, by the same rules every time.

Does the extension work in Safari or Firefox?

No, the Planner extension is for Chrome. Planner itself works in any browser, and without the extension you can connect Canvas with an access token, or Schoology, Brightspace, Moodle and others with a calendar link.

Is Planner free?

Yes. Planner is free for students.

Stop planning school in five different places

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Planner is an independent student project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Severn School, Blackbaud, Instructure (Canvas), or any other school or company. Their names describe what it works with.