Free tool
Turn your syllabus into a Google Calendar.
Upload the course outline PDF. Every test, assignment and deadline goes into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, with its weight in the title and an alarm before it. No typing dates in by hand.
Three steps
- 1
Upload the outline
A PDF of the course outline, straight from your LMS or your school's outline library. One per course, or a whole term at once.
- 2
Check what it read
Every graded item with its date and weight, plus the rules that bite: late policy, missed-test procedure, opt-out deadlines. Anything worked out from “Week 6” rather than stated as a date is flagged so you can confirm it.
- 3
Press Google Calendar
It subscribes your Google Calendar to a private feed of everything you've uploaded. Apple Calendar and Outlook take the same feed from the button next to it.
The try page reads one outline without an account. Make a free account afterwards and that course is already waiting in it.
What lands in your calendar
Each item is titled with the course code and its weight, so the week view tells you what matters without opening anything:
Weekly work is expanded: “MyLab due every Sunday, weeks 2 to 12” becomes eleven dated entries, not one line you have to remember to repeat. All your courses share one calendar, so a week with three things due shows up as exactly that.
Why the syllabus, and not the LMS calendar
Avenue, Canvas, Quercus, onQ and every other LMS calendar only show what a professor entered there with a due date attached. Midterms announced only in the outline, in-class quizzes and homework on outside platforms often never appear. The outline is the document that has all of it.
You can add your LMS calendar feed too. SyllaBuddy checks it every six hours and shows anything posted there next to what the outline says, with duplicates hidden. Why LMS calendars miss assignments.
Rather do it by hand?
It takes about twenty minutes per course: find the grade breakdown, put each dated item in your calendar with its weight in the title, expand the recurring work, and add the drop and opt-out dates. The full manual method. If your school's LMS has a calendar feed, the Avenue to Learn and Canvas guides show how to subscribe to it.
Questions
Can I add my syllabus to Google Calendar without typing every date?
Yes. Upload the course outline PDF, check what was read, then press Google Calendar. Every dated item from every course you've uploaded arrives as one subscribed calendar, so there is nothing to retype.
Does it work with Apple Calendar and Outlook?
Yes. The Apple / Outlook button opens the same calendar as a webcal subscription. On an iPhone you can also paste the link under Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar.
What happens when a date changes?
Fix it in SyllaBuddy, or upload the revised outline, and the calendar follows, because it's a subscription rather than a one-time import. Google refreshes subscribed calendars on its own schedule, every few hours, so a change shows there a little later.
Will it remind me before things are due?
Each test carries an alarm 24 hours before it and each deadline an alarm 3 hours before. Your calendar app shows them like any other event alarm.
Is my calendar link private?
It's a long private link. Anyone who has it can see your schedule, so don't post it anywhere. If it gets out, Reset link makes the old one stop working.
What does it cost?
Nothing. It's free for students while it's new, with no card asked for.
One PDF in, the whole course on your calendar.
Upload your syllabi, get the whole term as a calendar, a daily to-do and a chat that knows your courses. Free.
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