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Coursera Planner: a scheduling and monitoring tool for all your current Coursera courses

Herewith a first sketch and Excel prototype, or download the Excel file here

Scheduling Guideline
Step 1: Create your multiweek course schedule (upper-left corner):

• Choose your courses from the Coursera catalog
• Use the course startdate, workload and duration to create the multi-week schedule
• Ensure your total workload for every week is within your capacity

Step 2: Create your weekly schedule at the start of every week

• For every course look up the course detailed schedule / syllabus / lectures / assignments ...
• Divide tasks in blocks of 30 minutes (pomodoro technique) and fill the weekly grid with all your tasks
• Ensure your daily workload remains within your capacity

Step 3: Monitor during the week

• Signoff finished tasks with a color marker
• If a task takes longer add an additional task block
• If a task takes shorter cross out obsolete blocks

Step 4: End of week review

• Learn from your past weeks performance and plan the next week.

 
Is this Coursera planner helpful for you? Does it fill a need?

My list of identified gaps, gap choosen for my project in bold

1. Succesfully setting and reaching my goals, have them with me all the time.
2. Coursera planner: following 3+ coursera courses simultaneously and not missing deadlines for assignments and tests, finding enough time to plan and do the necessary activities
3. A battery for my smartphone which last more than 24 hours
4. Process for keeping track of all my todos
5. A sensor that alarms me when there is water in the basement of my house: time to switch on the pump
6. An efficient B2B webplatform where I can find job opportortunities for freelance project management
7. The perfect purse for daily work travel that can hold my ultrabook pc, eReader, a paper notepad, a few pencils and my umbrella in an elegant set
8. A wind resistant umbrella
9. A system / method / process that eases pairing socks coming out of the washing machine, avoiding pairing different socks
10. Easy cleaning of the shit from my boots when I return from the sheepfold

My example of good design: my Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone:

• large screen but still fits confortable in my pocket
• thin, the smartphone with largest ratio front-space/volume on the market when it was released
• Android OS: open OS enabling a lot of innovation for new apps, the fastest growing OS in history
• fast processor makes it a pleasant experience to use

This artifact really enriched my live, having access to important data and news at all times of the day wherever I be. It is also a smart tool to take quick notes, photographs, scans, etc ...
Bought it 20 months ago, can't think of living without it any more.