Education timeline maker

Help students and classes see how events, ideas, and stories unfold over time. Whether it’s “pick a historical figure and create a timeline” or mapping a novel or process, Timetoast makes it easy to turn lesson content into clear timelines for projects, revisions, and presentations.

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Screenshot of Timetoast showing color-coded timelines and a grid view with custom fields, used here for classroom projects.

Keep classroom timelines clear and easy to follow

Many lessons and projects start out spread across slides, handouts, and notes:

  • Key dates and topics live in different documents
  • It’s hard for students to see how events connect
  • Updating materials for a new class or term takes time

The result: students remember isolated facts instead of understanding the bigger picture or how events relate to each other.

A classroom timeline pulls it all together:

  • Shows what happens first, next, and later in a unit
  • Makes it easier to compare periods, characters, or processes
  • Gives students a visual reference they can return to when researching a person, topic, or era

With Timetoast, you can prepare content once in a grid and see it instantly across multiple timeline views.

Screenshot of Timetoast grid view used to organise key dates for a class timeline.
Shape lessons and projects in the grid view
Work in a familiar, classroom-ready grid

Plan units, lessons, and assignments in one place

Use the grid view when you’re designing or updating a course:

  • Add lesson topics, reading assignments, student projects, and key dates in seconds
  • Use custom fields for subject, class or group, assessment type, and status
  • Sort by week, topic, or class to check coverage and workload

The grid feels like a spreadsheet but stays directly connected to your classroom timelines.

Screenshot of Timetoast horizontal timeline view showing key moments from a history unit.
Show your topic as an interactive timeline
Timeline views for teaching and revision

Turn content into a clear story for students

Switch to a timeline view when you’re explaining a sequence or reviewing before a test:

  • A horizontal timeline is ideal for showing long periods or story arcs
  • A vertical timeline works well on classroom screens and student devices

You keep editing the same project, while Timetoast keeps grid and timeline views in sync.

Screenshot of a Timetoast timeline with color-coded events grouped by subject or class.
Color-coded timelines filtered by subject or class
Filters and colors that keep lessons clear

Highlight subjects, groups, and topics with color

Classroom timelines can quickly fill up. Timetoast helps you keep them readable:

  • Filter by class or group when you teach multiple sections
  • Filter by subject or theme to focus on a particular strand
  • Color-code items by topic, assessment type, or difficulty

You can adjust filters and colors depending on whether you’re planning, teaching, or revising.

Dashboard displaying a list of timeline projects such as classroom projects, unit overviews, and revision timelines.
User management interface for adding, removing, and managing access to shared classroom projects.
Interface listing groups such as History Class, Science Department, and Year Group with options to edit or delete each group.
Collaborate and share with ease

Ready for teachers, departments, and students

Use Timetoast for lessons, projects, and school-wide timelines. It gives you enough structure to stay organised without adding extra admin.

  • Invite colleagues or classes with clear view and edit rights
  • A shared workspace so staff and students see the same timelines
  • Keep timelines private, share them with a class, or publish more widely
  • Embed views inside learning platforms, or your own websites

What a classroom timeline looks like in Timetoast

Here’s a simple structure you can use as a starting point. You can set this up yourself or start from a template in Timetoast.

  • Fields that match how you teach

    A typical education project might include fields like:

    • Item – the lesson, activity, or key event
    • Date or period – when you plan to cover it
    • Subject – History, English, Science, etc.
    • Class or group – 7A, 10B, Year 3, Seminar group
    • Type – Lesson, homework, quiz, project, exam
    • Status – Planned, In progress, Done
    • Notes – extra context, resources, and links

    You can rename or add fields to match your own curriculum language and assessment style.

  • Views for different situations

    Over time you’ll probably use different views for different purposes:

    • Planning view (grid)
      All items for a course or term. Sorted by week or unit. Used when you’re designing or updating lessons.
    • Classroom view (horizontal timeline)
      The key events you want on screen during lessons or revision.
    • Full view (vertical timeline)
      Filtered to a single class or topic so students see what matters to them.

    You can switch between these views in a couple of clicks, without rebuilding your materials.

  • How a typical week might look

    In a normal week you might:

    • Update the grid after lessons to adjust pacing or add notes.
    • Review the timeline before class to highlight what’s coming next.
    • Share a view with students or colleagues for homework or revision.

    Your plan stays current because you’re editing one project instead of juggling multiple documents.

Who education timelines are for

Timetoast is flexible enough to support different roles around the same course or programme.

  • Teachers and lecturers

    • Map out units, lessons, and assessments in one place
    • Show timelines in class to explain sequences and expectations
    • Reuse and adapt the same project across terms or groups

  • Students

    • Turn research projects and readings, like timelines about historical figures, into clear visual stories
    • Use timelines for revision before exams and presentations
    • Collaborate on group projects with a shared visual plan

  • Departments and coordinators

    • Create programme-level timelines for terms or school years
    • Share high-level views with school leadership and families
    • Keep curriculum timelines consistent across classes and years

Key benefits at a glance

With Timetoast for education you can:

  • Turn complex topics and courses into simple visual timelines
  • Keep plans, resources, and dates in one organised project
  • Give students a clearer sense of sequence, context, and expectations
  • Update plans quickly instead of rewriting slides or handouts
  • Reuse and adapt timelines across classes, years, and subjects

Start faster with education-friendly templates

You can create an education project from scratch or start with templates that work well in the classroom.

  • Popular options include:

    • Biography timeline
      Follow a historical or literary figure’s life across key events.
    • Classic timeline
      Title, description, and categories – a simple structure for many subjects.
    • Project Management
      Events and milestones with different dates, deadlines, phases, statuses, and owners.
    • Blank project
      Start with a clean slate and add only the fields and views you need.

  • Each template comes with:

    • Helpful default fields that you can adapt for your class
    • Sample items you can edit or remove
    • The grid view and horizontal/vertical timeline views ready to use from day one
    Use the classic timeline template
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