deadlines · an academic command center

Every deadline,before the crunch.

Point it at your schedule and it reads every due date, heat-maps the whole semester, and turns any brief into a three-day plan — so nothing sneaks up on you.

A tool I built from scratch to survive a full course load.

01the problem

A semester is aminefield of dates.

Every module has its own briefs, tests and exams — buried in email, PDFs, a learning portal and a group chat. Miss one and the marks are simply gone. A calendar app won’t read a 12-page brief for you.

emailbrief.pdfLMS portalgroup chat
SECP210 · Assignment

Threat-modelling case study

Weight 20% · one submission

due in

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A single assignment’s countdown races from two days down to overdue while it hides among email, PDFs and chats — the marks are lost.

02import

Point it at yourschedule once.

Drop in the year’s assessment schedule — a PDF, a screenshot, a pasted timetable. Claude reads it and pulls out every deadline as a structured row: module, type, weight and due date, ready to review.

Import schedule0 found
schedule.pdf
Reading with Claude…

Portfolio of Evidence — Part 2

WEBD201 · Project

30%in 2 days

Normalisation & SQL worksheet

DBMS202 · Assignment

15%in 5 days

Threat-modelling case study

SECP210 · Assignment

20%in 8 days

Subnetting class test

NETW220 · Test

10%in 11 days

Final written exam

SECP210 · Exam

50%in 19 days

A schedule PDF is dropped into the app; Claude reads it and extracts five structured deadline rows with module, type, weight and due date.

03the whole semester

See the crunchbefore it forms.

Every day is scored by what’s due on it — count, weight, and whether an exam or test lands — then painted on a heat map. The hot zones surface weeks out, so you start the heavy stretches early instead of the night before.

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workloadlightbuildingcrunch

A month grid where each day is coloured by its workload — cool blue for light days, amber as work builds, red for the two crunch days carrying an exam and multiple submissions.

04analysis

Drop a brief.Get the attack plan.

Upload the assignment brief to any deadline. Claude reads the whole thing and hands back the difficulty, the hours it’ll really take, the requirements, the penalty traps, and a checklist — everything you’d miss skimming it at 1am.

Portfolio of Evidence — Part 2

ProjectWEBD201 · 30%
brief.pdf · drop to analyse
Analysing with Claude…
part detection · single part
High difficulty~0h of work

Build and document the second increment of your web portfolio: a responsive multi-page site with a working contact form, deployed live, plus a short reflection on your design decisions.

Requirements

Responsive layout across 3 breakpointsWorking, validated contact formDeployed to a public URL500-word design reflection

Watch out

Late penalty: 10% per day, capped at 3 days

Unreferenced code from templates = plagiarism

Checklist

Read the brief twice, highlight the rubric weightings
Sketch the three breakpoints before coding
Wire and validate the contact form
Deploy and smoke-test the live URL
Write the 500-word reflection
View the 3-day plan

A brief is dropped into a deadline; Claude analyses it and fills the panel with difficulty, estimated hours, requirements, penalty warnings and a checklist.

05the payoff

The crunch, asthree calm days.

From that analysis, Claude sequences the work into a three-day plan — each day a single focus and a short list of timed tasks. The red-hot brief becomes a to-do list you can actually start.

Day 12h 45m

Understand & scaffold

Re-read brief, map the rubric30m
Sketch the three breakpoints45m
Scaffold the pages & nav1h 30m
Day 24h 10m

Build the hard parts

Responsive layout pass2h
Contact form + validation1h 30m
Deploy to a public URL40m
Day 32h 15m

Polish, reflect, submit

Smoke-test every breakpoint45m
Write the 500-word reflection1h
Rubric cross-check + submit30m

Claude’s three-day plan for the brief — day one scaffolds, day two builds the hard parts, day three polishes and submits, each task carrying a time estimate.

06track it

Then watch itcool to done.

Move each deadline along as you go — pending, in progress, submitted, done. Module progress fills in, the heat drains off the calendar, and the finish line stops being a surprise.

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Portfolio of Evidence — Part 2

WEBD201 · Project · 30%

Pending
WEBD20166%
DBMS20250%
SECP21025%

A dashboard: six deadlines tracked, three due within a week, two done. One deadline cycles from pending to done while three module progress bars fill in.