monday.com for education: Managing courses, students, and academic projects
We are a university department looking to use monday.com for managing research projects, course coordination, and student internships. Has anyone set up monday.com for academic use? What templates or board structures work well for education? We need to track student progress, manage research timelines, and coordinate across multiple faculty members.
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We implemented monday.com for three university departments. The key is treating 'Students' as items with connected relationships to 'Courses', 'Projects', and 'Advisors'. Create a Board per semester with groups for each course, then use subitems for assignments and milestones. For research projects, use the timeline view extensively - it handles academic timelines with multiple phases (proposal, IRB approval, data collection, analysis, defense) very well. Use 'Guest Access' carefully - you can give students limited view/edit access to specific boards without them needing paid seats. For internship tracking, create a 'Placement Board' that connects to your career services database and tracks students through application → interview → placement → evaluation → completion.
One approach that works well: use monday.com Forms for student intake and feedback. Create a public form for course registration that feeds directly into your course board. For research, the dependency features in Timeline view are great for tracking IRB deadlines and submission timelines. We also set up automations to send reminders to students about upcoming deadlines - reduces email clutter significantly.