It’s back to school season, and if you’re anything like me, it feels exciting and completely overwhelming at the same time. In this video, I walk you through the only Notion setup you’ll need for back to school 2025—a student-centered dashboard I built from my own experience to keep assignments, schedules, course notes, academic goals, and all the little details in one clean system. I also want to be mindful that not everyone has extra budget during the school year, so you can either grab the full template or follow along and build it yourself as I set everything up step by step. I tour the dashboard first (directory, capture buttons, courses by semester, inbox, important links, weekly planning, and a master calendar), then I show how everything connects using linked views and relation properties—so your courses, professors, modules, notes, coursework, and deadlines all talk to each other. I also explain my master calendar “inbox” for tasks with missing details, my course notes template (with a Notion AI summary block), and why I didn’t force a complicated grade calculator inside Notion. Instead, I included a separate Google Sheet for flexible grade computation, and I keep weekly to-dos separate from the master calendar to stay clear and straightforward.