The dashboard
The home screen has five sections, always in this order:
- Happening now — what is on right now or about to start.
- To catch up — everything still open whose time has come (see Filling in).
- Your courses — one ring tile each.
- Upcoming sessions — chronological, across all active semesters.
- Upcoming deadlines — tickable right there; tapping the text opens the deadline.
The first two sections appear only when there is something in them and disappear once they are dealt with. At the start of a semester the dashboard is correspondingly slim — and an empty section never tells you anything you did not already know.
Hints about missing data. If a course lacks something its properties promise, a row per point sits right at the top, such as “Theoretical Computer Science has no exam date yet.” — with what you can do below it. Tapping the hint jumps straight to the point highlighted in yellow on the course, and Back brings you here again. Remind me later silences the hint for a week.
The ring tiles
One tile per course, the tiles below one another: four rings from the outside in for joy, interest, understanding and difficulty, plus participation as the disc in the centre. The centre shows the bare number, without a percent sign — there is little room, and the legend beside it says what it means. Sessions and deadlines go in together.
Next to the ring is the legend: the course's full name and five rows, from participation in the centre to difficulty, each with its colour dot and its value in per cent. The number is green from 80 % and red up to 40 %, and stays black in between. Difficulty is always black — more on that below.
Every measure has its own fixed colour — participation blue, joy magenta, interest petrol, understanding violet, difficulty slate grey. The colour tells you which scale it is, not whether the value is good. The chosen buttons use the same colours when rating.
Difficulty shows the degree of difficulty: a full ring means “very hard”, an almost empty one “very easy”. It never counts as good or bad — a demanding course is not a bad one.
An empty ring means “nothing logged for this yet” — not “zero per cent”.
The centre is worked out by the type of entry:
| Type | Full (100 %) | Half (50 %) | Zero | Does not count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session | in person, online | caught up | absent | — |
| Exam | taken | — | not taken | excused |
| Submission | done and submitted | done, not submitted | not submitted | open, in progress |
| Registration | registered | — | missed | open |
| Withdrawal, other deadline | done | — | missed | open |
“Does not count” means neither good nor bad — the entry is left out of the calculation.
The time window switch
Above the tiles are two steps: Current and Semester. The dashboard is set to Semester.
- Current — the last seven days and the next fourteen.
- Semester — the whole semester.
Only the past part goes into the rings; what is still to come has no value. The two steps show the same course in two cutouts, and that is where the real information is: “Across the semester I look bad because the first weeks were rough — but right now it is going well.” That is why there are no trend arrows: the switch says it more precisely.
The deadline list
Everything due in the next two weeks is shown — and at least the next five, so the start of the semester is not blank. The mix keeps a long list of problem sets from crowding out the exam registration, and keeps a far-off single deadline from sticking in view permanently. Show all deadlines opens the full list with the same rows.
One tap opens the deadline. Since 4.3 there is no tick area here and no confirmation: the whole row leads to Rate deadline, and only Done there takes it out of the list.
The tick area used to sit on the left and looked like the goal — in testing people ticked, entered nothing, and then could not find the entry again. If you want to set a deadline's state quickly, tap its icon in the calendar; that only sets the state and leaves the deadline in the catch-up list. A state set that way shows up here as a green check at the end of the row.
Deadlines that have passed are no longer listed here — they wait in the catch-up list.
Registrations and withdrawals with an opening date appear three days before it. Before that there is nothing to do. The row says whether to register or withdraw and, until it opens, from when – for example “Registration · from 11/16/2026 · Due 11/30/2026”.