Welcome to your WRA331 Project Management Dashboard! We hope this template will give you a place to start when organizing your projects, tasks, and time for this class. To create your personal dashboard and project templates, click the button in the upper right corner that reads “Duplicate.” This will create a new page for you to use to track your own projects and tasks.
Once you’ve created your own copy of this page, you’re free to play around with the functionalities and features of Notion! This helpful guide is one place to start if you’re feeling unsure. Below, I’ll list a few of the most important functionalities that will help you manage your projects in this class. We want you to explore what you can do with this tool by using the resources available within it—you’ll probably find aspects of it that we didn’t even know existed! But if you get stuck, feel free to ask questions, and we’ll work through it together.
Notion page views
Below, you’ll see your first project management template embedded in your dashboard. This allows you to view your project tasks and make quick changes upon opening Notion, but it won’t allow you access to the full functionality of the page. In order to make your desired changes to the template, click the “open as full page” button that appears when you mouse over the right side of the toolbar above the task manager.
Within a project, you also have a couple of preset views for your tasks, listed across the top left of the toolbar. Your timeline and calendar view are set to pull from the “Start Date” and “End Date” data in the table. You can create other views of your task data based on the way you like to work by clicking the plus sign in the top toolbar.
Creating new projects
Once you’ve entered the full page view of the task manager, you will be able to duplicate the template when starting future projects. You do this the same way you duplicated this dashboard: by clicking the three dots in the upper right corner and then clicking “duplicate.” If you’re opening a new project, you’ll then want to click “duplicate without content” so that you can fill in the content for the new project. Your new project will also automatically appear embedded below Project 1 on this dashboard.
Sharing with classmates & assigning tasks
For your WRA331 group projects, it will be helpful to share a task manager rather than having everyone create their own. In the full page view of the project task manager, you will click the button that says “Share.” Then, simply add your group members’ emails—make sure you add the email that your group member used to create their Notion account. Then, their names will pop up when you click cells under the “Assignee” column, allowing you to assign tasks to yourselves and each other. This will give everyone in the group access to update the task manager as needed.