Guides
Find a use case for your week, learn how to use School Calendar, or explore music, sports, study routines, and evidence-informed study skills.
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Use cases
Create a Weekly Classroom Calendar and Share It with Parents
Follow a Year 3 example: add lessons, try Magic Generate, publish a read-only calendar, and update the same link when plans change.
Build an After-School Activity Schedule with AI
Turn homework, sport, and music practice into a weekly calendar. Copy an example prompt, review the events, and share the plan.
Create a Visual Homeschool Weekly Schedule
Plan a homeschool week with subject icons, reusable activities, separate calendars, and events drafted in Magic Generate.
Create and Share a School Club Schedule
Create a clear school club calendar with session details, a read-only link, optional password protection, and updates at the same URL.
How-to guides
Export to Apple Calendar or Google Calendar
Download all saved events as an .ics file from the export dialog or AI Chat, then import them into Apple Calendar or Google Calendar.
Lock Your Calendar to a Weekly View
Keep a weekly timetable in view, hide dates and navigation, and share the routine with families.
Generate Calendar Events with AI
Describe your schedule, review the proposed events, and add them to your calendar with Magic Generate.
Publish and Share Your Calendar
Publish a read-only calendar, add an optional password, and keep the same link when plans change.
Move Your Calendar Events with One Chat Request
Shift calendar events earlier or later with a chat request. Review the selected events, confirm the move, and republish your updated schedule.
Activity routines
Violin practice routines for different AMEB levels
A practical guide to structuring warm-ups, scales, pieces, sight reading, and aural work from early grades through advanced AMEB preparation.
Piano practice routines for different AMEB levels
Plan piano practice around reading, technique, voicing, repertoire, sight reading, aural work, and performance confidence.
Guitar practice routines for different AMEB levels
Build clean coordination, tone, rhythm, fretboard confidence, and reliable performance habits for AMEB guitar preparation.
Singing practice routines for different AMEB levels
Healthy routines for warm-ups, breath, diction, sight singing, repertoire, aural work, and performance presence.
Flute practice routines for different AMEB levels
A level-by-level guide to tone, breathing, articulation, scales, sight reading, and exam-ready flute practice.
Cello practice routines for different AMEB levels
Practice ideas for relaxed setup, bow control, shifting, intonation, tone, repertoire, and performance flow.
Soccer training routines for different levels
Plan ball control, passing, shooting, defending, match play, fitness, and recovery from beginner to advanced levels.
Basketball training routines for different levels
Build dribbling, shooting, footwork, defence, game-speed decisions, conditioning, and recovery across the week.
Tennis training routines for different levels
Structure tennis practice around strokes, serves, returns, footwork, match patterns, fitness, and recovery.
Swimming training routines for different levels
Organise pool sessions around breathing, body position, stroke technique, pacing, race skills, and recovery.
Running training routines for different levels
Plan easy runs, workouts, long runs, strength, mobility, race preparation, and recovery without overloading the week.
Cricket training routines for different levels
Balance batting, bowling, fielding, match scenarios, strength, speed, workload, and recovery in a weekly routine.
English study routines for different school levels
Build reading, vocabulary, paragraph writing, analysis, essay planning, timed responses, and feedback habits.
Math study routines for different school levels
Plan number facts, algebra, problem solving, topic revision, exam questions, and error review across the week.
Science study routines for different school levels
Study concepts, diagrams, experiments, data, active recall, and exam responses with a repeatable routine.
History study routines for different school levels
Organise timelines, key terms, source analysis, evidence, essay plans, and timed history responses.
Geography study routines for different school levels
Use maps, case studies, diagrams, data, fieldwork, and extended responses in a clear weekly study plan.
Study skills
How to Study Effectively: 8 Principles and the Systems That Use Them
Choose a study approach for remembering, understanding and solving problems. Explore eight learning principles, eight practical systems and an example weekly plan.
Active Recall: Learn by Retrieving, Then Checking
Use closed-book questions, blank-page recall and answer checking to practise retrieving knowledge, with a science example and a manageable weekly routine.
Spaced Practice: Build a Review Schedule That Lasts
Spread review across several days, adjust it using recall results and build a realistic spaced study schedule instead of relying on one long revision session.
Self-Explanation: Connect Ideas and Explain Why
Use why questions, worked-step explanations and concrete examples to check understanding, with an algebra demonstration and a short study pattern.
Interleaving: Learn to Choose the Right Approach
Mix related problem types after initial learning so you practise selecting a method, with a geometry example and guidance on when mixing is useful.
Worked Examples: Move from Guidance to Independent Practice
Learn a procedure through worked solutions, missing-step problems and independent attempts, with a maths example and a plan for reducing support.
Words and Visuals: Make Concepts Easier to Understand
Connect diagrams, labels, examples and explanations to study concepts, with a water-cycle task and practical checks for useful rather than decorative visuals.
Feedback and Error Correction: Turn Mistakes into Better Practice
Use feedback to diagnose mistakes and choose a useful next attempt. Includes a fraction correction, error categories and a delayed retry routine.
Plan, Monitor, Evaluate: Manage Your Own Learning
Set concrete study goals, use performance checks and adjust the next session. Build a weekly review that measures understanding rather than time spent.
The Leitner System: Organise Flashcards for Spaced Recall
Set up a small Leitner flashcard routine with honest recall, answer checks and adjustable review intervals, including an example card and weekly schedule.
Cornell Notes: Turn Lesson Notes into Questions and Review
Use Cornell notes to turn a lesson into cue questions, covered-note recall and a later review, with a complete science example and practical adaptations.
SQ3R: A Practical System for Studying a Textbook Chapter
Try Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review with a worked reading example. Turn a textbook section into questions and checkable explanations.
The Feynman Technique: Explain an Idea and Find the Gaps
Use a Feynman-style explanation workflow to uncover gaps, verify claims and refine your understanding, with a simple circuit example and study schedule.
Pomodoro for Studying: Plan Focused Work and Useful Breaks
Organise study blocks with the Pomodoro approach while choosing effective work inside the timer. Includes a realistic session, adaptations and evidence limits.
A Worked-Example Practice Cycle for Maths and Science
Follow a complete algebra practice cycle from a solved example to missing steps, independent work and later mixed questions, with answer checks included.
An Error-Log Review System: Correct, Retry, Revisit
Build an error log that leads to action: diagnose mistakes, explain corrections, retry new questions and revisit them later using a worked maths example.
Build a Weekly Study System with Recall, Spacing and Review
Combine recall, feedback and spaced sessions across three subjects. Use an adaptable weekly study calendar and a practical end-of-week review.