Smart planning and replanning
On Today, use Plan today for a bounded plan or Plan my week to spread priority work across your real availability. If you miss a generated study block, opening Today automatically redistributes unfinished generated work into the future rather than letting overdue planner tasks pile up.
Use “I’m falling behind” when life gets in the way
The recovery tool compares your remaining assessment workload with the study capacity available across the next two weeks. Review which work StudyShift says to protect and what can wait, then accept the recovery plan to rebuild the generated schedule.
Set up a course from a handbook
From Library choose Set up course from handbook. Upload a PDF, TXT or Markdown handbook, let StudyShift analyse it, review the detected programme/modules/assessments/learning outcomes/readings, and only then create the course. Always verify extracted dates and rules against the original handbook.
Use Assignment Health
Open any assessment from Assignments. The command centre combines deadline pressure, draft length/progress, linked evidence and rubric readiness into an at-a-glance health view and suggests the highest-value next action. Keep the progress slider current and run rubric review after meaningful draft changes.
Set your regional study system
In Settings choose country/region, grading system, academic-year structure, week start and clock/date preferences. Percentage, GPA, letter and pass/fail recording are supported, but your institution remains authoritative for grade conversion and award classification.
Install StudyShift as an app
In Settings use Install StudyShift where available. On iPhone/iPad use Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen, then open the installed app before enabling notifications. The PWA caches only the public app shell, not private learner pages.
1. Create your account
Open StudyShift and choose Get started. Create your account and complete the study profile. Use the timezone where you normally study because deadlines and reminders are interpreted against it.
2. Add your programme
Go to My Course and create the qualification or programme you are taking. Add the institution, programme dates and target grade if you have one.
3. Add your modules
Inside the programme, create each module. Add the module code, lecturer, credits and target mark where known. This gives StudyShift the structure it needs to organise assessments correctly.
4. Add every assessment
For each module, add assignments, exams, presentations, projects or portfolios. Enter the official due date and time, weighting, expected word count and estimated effort. Copy the assignment brief and rubric into the relevant fields where possible.
5. Upload course materials
In Settings, add handbooks, assignment briefs, rubrics, lecture notes and policies. Files are stored privately under your user account. Extracted course text can then be used by Ask StudyShift to answer questions about your own materials.
6. Tell StudyShift when you are actually free
In Settings → Weekly availability, add realistic study windows. Do not enter the hours you wish you had. Add the time you can consistently protect around work, commuting, family and other commitments.
7. Generate Today’s plan
Open Today and generate a plan. StudyShift considers upcoming assessments, their weighting, remaining time and your available study window. Complete tasks as you go. The objective is a bounded plan, not an endless list.
8. Use My Work to see pressure building
My Work shows active assessments and deadlines across the programme. Update assessment status and grades when work is submitted or returned so future planning and grade forecasting stay accurate.
9. Ask StudyShift course-aware questions
Use Ask StudyShift for questions such as “What does this assignment actually require?”, “Where are the marks in this rubric?”, “What should I work on tonight?” or “What does my handbook say about late submissions?”. It should support your judgement, not replace the institution’s official guidance.
10. Build your Experience vault
Use My Experience to record roles, qualifications, training, projects, volunteering and relevant life experience. Add evidence notes and skills. This creates a structured base that can later support Recognition of Prior Learning work.
11. Turn on reminders
In Settings → Reminders, enable phone/browser notifications. Choose whether you want a daily-plan reminder, deadline alerts, your preferred hour and how many days before a deadline you want warning. Browser permission must also be granted on each device.
13. Use the Course Library as your reading home
Open Library to view uploaded PDFs and text inside StudyShift. Mark each item Not started, Reading or Finished, keep your resume page, record progress and attach highlights, bookmarks and notes to the material.
14. Run each assignment from its workspace
Open any assessment from Assignments. Keep the brief, rubric, working draft, sources, notes, related course material and lecturer feedback together. Run a Claude rubric review against your current draft to identify the highest-value improvements without asking AI to write the assignment for you.
15. Keep Notes & Sources once
Use Notes & Sources for reusable study notes and academic references. A source can then be connected to assignment work instead of being rediscovered in browser tabs.
16. Use the Grade Centre
Enter returned marks once. Grade Centre calculates the weighted position of each module and shows the approximate mark needed across the remaining assessment weight to reach your target.
17. Import your timetable
Open Calendar and import an .ics file exported from your college, LMS or calendar. StudyShift combines imported events with saved classes, deadlines and planned study sessions.
18. Capture important announcements
When a lecturer or course system announces an important change, add it to Calendar. This keeps deadline and timetable context inside the same learner record rather than relying on memory.
19. Revise from your own material
Revision can create quizzes, flashcards, revision summaries and exam plans from your saved module material, notes, lectures and assessment context. If StudyShift does not contain the source material, it should not invent it.
20. Map experience to learning outcomes
In Experience & RPL, add official learning outcomes and connect them to items in your evidence vault. Mark matches as possible, moderate or strong and record why the evidence supports the outcome.
21. Search everything
Search finds matching modules, assessments, course documents, notes, references, feedback, lectures and experience evidence across your workspace.
22. Keep your own backup
In Settings, download a portable JSON backup of your StudyShift database records. Original privately uploaded files remain in your private library and can be opened/downloaded individually.
12. Use StudyShift on mobile
The interface is responsive. On a phone, use the hamburger menu in the top-left to move between Today, My Course, Library, Assignments, Calendar, Notes & Sources, Grade Centre, Revision, Experience & RPL, Ask StudyShift, Search and Settings. For an app-like experience, use your browser’s Add to Home Screen option.
Important: your institution remains authoritative
StudyShift is a planning and learning-support tool. Always rely on your institution, lecturer or official programme documentation for definitive deadlines, assessment rules, academic-integrity requirements, progression decisions and award outcomes. AI-generated guidance can be incomplete or wrong, so verify important academic decisions against the original source.