Like many activity administration instruments, in Taskade you’ll be able to create lists, share these lists, and check-off record gadgets once they’re accomplished. You are able to do that with a number of different activity administration instruments. What makes Taskade completely different is the record of further options that may be utilized within the Taskade cellular apps and on the Taskade web site. On this submit I’ll spotlight these further options that lecturers and college students can use to plan and handle initiatives with Taskade.

Venture Planning Templates
Taskade presents 4 primary templates that you should utilize and modify to your coronary heart’s content material. These templates are “weekly planner,” “assembly agenda,” “venture board,” and “thoughts map.” However you too can create a template from scratch to handle your initiatives. For lecturers who need college students to observe a selected course of to finish a venture, making a customized template is the best way to go. You may share your template with anybody by merely inviting them into your venture workspace then letting them make a duplicate of it.

Venture templates in Taskade can embrace each day, weekly, and month-to-month to-do lists which might be shared with all venture members. Templates may embrace information and hyperlinks to sources wanted to finish the venture. If these information embrace movies or audio recordings, they are often performed in Taskade. Movies from sources like YouTube and Loom may also play inside a Taskade venture.

I can see myself making a Taskade venture planning template to assist my college students get began on a long-term venture. I’d embrace some checklists of issues that college students ought to do, goal dates for completion of the checklists, and a few useful resource hyperlinks or information that would assist them get began. See my screenshot under of the persuasive presentation venture planning template that I created in Taskade.

Simple-to-follow instructions for making a venture planning template can be found proper right here on the Taskade web site.

Actual-time Collaboration in Many Kinds
Once you create a brand new venture in Taskade, you achieve this in what Taskade refers to as a workspace. Taskade is designed for collaboration. Subsequently, everytime you’re in a Taskade workspace you’ve got a number of methods to collaborate with different members of your workspace. You may ship chat messages by way of textual content whereas in a workspace, you’ll be able to have an audio name in your workspace, and you may have a video name in your workspace.

Throughout video and audio calls in Taskade workspaces you’ll be able to display screen share to indicate everybody within the name what you’re engaged on, what the following venture step is, or simply ensure that everyone seems to be speaking about the identical shared file.

In chat messages in Taskade workspaces you’ll be able to quote different messages in your replies. I discover that to be very useful every time greater than two individuals are taking part within the chat. Quoted replies assist me observe chat conversations a bit extra simply simply in the identical method that quoted replies assist me observe e-mail conversations. Lastly, chat messages may embrace a activity record out of your workspace.

Cross-Venture Sharing and Job Repetition
Inside your Taskade account you’ll be able to hyperlink initiatives collectively. Which means when you have a component of 1 venture that’s related to a different, you’ll be able to rapidly hyperlink the 2 collectively. This might be useful to college students who’re engaged on multi-discipline initiatives and need to hold some parts separated whereas combining parts that overlap.

All of us have duties that must be performed each day, week, or month on the identical time. That’s true when attempting to finish long-term initiatives simply as it’s in our each day lives. In Taskade you’ll be able to create a listing of duties and automate them to look in your initiatives on an interval of your selecting. In different phrases, you’ll be able to re-use the identical to-do record time and again on an interval of your selecting. Right here’s an outline of how that’s performed.

Visuals for Everybody
A few of us like to have a look at venture plans as a linear record, a few of us like to have a look at them as flowcharts, and others want a calendar view. Likewise, a few of us like to make use of numerous colour coding and emojis in our venture plans and others want a easy black-and-white aesthetic. Taskade can accommodate all of these preferences and extra.

And for those that like to carry a plan of their palms, Taskade initiatives might be exported to PDF for simple printing.

Bottomline
Taskade can be utilized for one thing so simple as making a to-do record with built-in reminders or as complicated as coordinating a long-term venture. Once you issue within the collaboration instruments Taskade actually shines as a whole answer for venture planning and administration.

Get Began!

Taskade has free and paid plans. The free plan is greater than enough for college students. Within the free plan you’ve got one workspace and limitless subspaces. Subspaces can do every thing {that a} workspace can together with utilizing templates, inviting collaborators, and internet hosting video calls. An in depth clarification of the distinction might be learn right here.

Watch my quick tutorial video (embedded under) then head to Taskade.com to create a free account and make your first venture planning template.