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Subjects & Academics

The structural layer everything else hangs off: programmes → semesters/years → subjects, plus automatic GPA/CGPA calculation from your grades.

Programmes

If you're tracking more than one course of study (a degree plus a minor, or a programme change part-way through), each one is its own programme with its own semesters and subjects — switching your active programme filters everything else in the app down to just that programme's data. A programme can set default grading settings so every new semester under it starts pre-configured.

Studying abroad? A programme can have its own timezone

If your programme is based somewhere other than where you're physically studying (an exchange semester, a fully-remote degree in another country), open the programme and set a timezone override. Every class, quiz/exam, and task due time you enter under that programme's semesters is then interpreted in that timezone — but still displays correctly converted for wherever you actually are when you check the app, and reminders still fire at the right real-world moment. Leave it unset (the default) and everything just uses your device's own current timezone, same as always.

Semesters and periods

A semester has a date range and, optionally, a set of periods inside it — lecture weeks, breaks, revision week, exam period, holidays, or a fully custom period (any name you choose, with its own "classes run" and "counts as a teaching week" flags — useful for something like an orientation week or reading week that doesn't fit the built-in types). Each period drives:

  • The teaching-week number shown in Planner.
  • No-class banners on days that fall inside a break/exam/holiday period.
  • The biweekly anchor date for Week A/B classes.

Adding periods is faster than it looks

A new period's start date auto-fills from wherever the previous one left off (or the semester's own start date, for the very first period), with a 1-day placeholder end date — so you're mostly just adjusting end dates and picking a type as you go, not typing every date from scratch.

The app always tries to default to whichever semester's date range actually covers today rather than just the most recently created one — and flags on the semester picker if you've selected one that hasn't started yet, or has already finished.

From your university's calendar

If your programme is at a university that publishes its academic calendar (IIUM does), the app can fill semesters in from it:

  • A new semester: Fill from IIUM's calendar lists the calendar's semesters you don't have yet. Pick one and its name, dates and periods are filled in, and it's placed in your programme's year for that session.
  • A semester you already have: its page shows Use IIUM's calendar dates with the calendar's dates. Tap it to see a summary of the dates and periods, then Use these dates. Close it if you'd rather keep your own; it won't ask again for that semester.
  • When the university changes its calendar: a semester filled from it shows IIUM updated Sem 1, 2026/2027, on the dashboard and on the semester's page. Tap it to see what changed and Update, or close it to keep your dates.

Nothing changes until you accept. Your own edits to dates and periods stay yours.

Opening a semester splits into two tabs — Overview (its GPA, where you are in the term, every period in the term, and a running "cumulative up to here" CGPA scoped to that semester's own programme) and Classes (every subject in it with its credits and grade). Editing a semester is split the same way — Details (name, dates, grading mode/scale) and Periods (the period list and biweekly anchor date).

Subjects and grading

Add the subjects you're taking each semester, along with credit hours and a grading scale. As you enter grades, the app computes your semester GPA and running CGPA automatically.

\"~\" means an estimate

A GPA shown with a leading ~ (e.g. ~3.81) means it's still a projection — one or more subjects in that calculation don't have a final grade yet. Once every subject in the semester is graded, the ~ drops and the figure is locked in.

If your university publishes its grading scale (IIUM does), Settings → Your university shows Use IIUM's grading scale when yours differs, for example a D worth 1.00 instead of 1.67. Tap it to see which grades change and use the university's points. Your semesters keep the scale they use, now with the right points.

If you're exempted from a subject requirement under a different programme (a transfer credit, for example), you can mark that directly from a subject's details — exempted subjects can be edited or removed later from that programme's own page, not just added.

GPA/CGPA summaries

Your active semester's GPA and other study summaries are available on the Today and analytics screens (overview and analytics).