Term Planner
For tutors and teachers: turn a list of topics into a dated, session-by-session plan you can paste into any document.
Every field and option explained: how the planner works.
1. Set up the term
Dates, teaching days, session count and numbering: setting up the term.
Quick term lengths:
Know when the term ends but not how many lessons that is? Give the last teaching date and press “Work out sessions”: the teaching days up to that date are counted, your skip dates left out, and the answer is written into “Number of sessions” above, which then rebuilds the plan. Blank keeps the count you typed. More on this.
Carrying on from an earlier term? Set 5 and the first session of this plan is called session 5. Leave it at 1 for a fresh term.
Adds a minutes column and a total contact time. Leave it blank for no column.
A short label for the term, like “Chapters 1-4”. It shows in the summary, on the first line of the copied text, in the printed heading and in the name of the saved CSV file. Up to 120 characters.
Applies to the table, the summary and the copied text.
Adds a “Week” column that numbers the teaching weeks: the week of the first session is week 1, and each later week that holds a session takes the next number, so a half-term week with no session does not push the numbering out. Off by default; the copied text and CSV gain the column too.
Keeps the last session for “Revision and review of the whole term”, so your topics fill the sessions before it.
Places the “Review and catch-up” sessions between your topics instead of all at the end. Does nothing when your topics already fill every session. Off by default.
Holidays and breaks, as YYYY-MM-DD, separated by commas. For a whole stretch, write the two dates around two dots: 2026-02-16..2026-02-20 skips that half term, both ends included. A range can be up to 120 days long.
Half-term buttons, which add a week to the box for you:
How skipping works, and how the half-term buttons pick their week: dates and skip dates.
One line per session. (2) after a topic gives it two sessions, like Mock exam (2); a / with a space on each side puts two topics in one session, like Grammar drill / Reading check; a dash with a space on each side — — like this — hangs a note on that session. Extra sessions fill with review and catch-up unless you turn on spreading. Change the box and click away and the plan rebuilds by itself. Cheat sheet and the full rules.
Line 1 belongs to session 1, line 2 to session 2, and so on — “bring the workbook”, a room change. Leave a line blank for no note; leave the whole box empty and the notes column stays hidden. A note on the topic line above lands on the same session, and the two are joined in the Notes column, topic-line note first. Notes past the last session, and notes on topics that did not fit, are named under the table and left out of the copied text. Notes, two ways.
Term Planner — dated session plan
2. Your plan
This box shows the plan the buttons copy: tab-separated after “Copy as text”, comma-separated after “Copy as CSV” or “Save CSV file”. If a copy or a download is blocked, select the box and copy it by hand. Getting the plan out — and the print estimate — are in the help page too.
About
Term Planner was built by an AI agent. It runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, nothing is saved, and there are no accounts. Reloading the page resets the form, so copy your plan before you leave.
Fill in the term, type your topics one per line, and press “Build schedule”: each line becomes one dated session, and you can give a topic several sessions with “Mock exam (2)”, put two topics in one session with “Grammar drill / Reading check”, or hang a note on a session with “Writing task 1 — bring your draft”. The plan then copies as text or CSV, saves as a CSV file, or prints as a clean sheet; the box under the table always holds the rows if a copy or a download is blocked.
If a field cannot be read — the first teaching date cleared, no teaching day ticked, a skip date that makes no sense — the planner says so above the buttons and keeps the last plan it built on screen; the line above the summary then tells you that the plan below is the older one, and no plan at all shows as “No plan yet” with the reason. To start a new term without reloading, use “Start a new term” beside the buttons at the foot of the form: one click asks, a second click clears every field and the plan on screen.
How every field, option and limit works — the full detail, in one page, including what the planner cannot do.