The overview

“Overview” is the first tab of the School module, and the page you land on when you open “School”. It answers a different question than “Today”: not what's happening now?, but where's this heading? Cards, one set per child – switch between them at the top with the child switcher.

The overview only calculates. Adding, changing and deleting still happens on the other tabs; there's nothing to save here.

Which cards you see, and in what order, is up to you – more on that under “Customise the overview”. By default, it's the six described below.

Tomorrow

Right at the top: the periods of the next school day – each line showing the period number, the subject, the time and the room. Not the next calendar day – on a Friday evening, it says “Monday”, and with A/B weeks it's already worked out which week that'll be.

Free periods in between get their own line: “4.–6. · 3 periods free · 10:35–13:15”. Without it, the list would read like an unbroken morning, even though there are three free periods between period 3 and period 7.

If the next day falls away, the card jumps ahead and gives a one-line reason. During the holidays, it shows the day school starts again instead of the periods. All of this – including why it says “Nothing in the timetable for Wednesday” instead of “no school” – is covered under “Customise the overview”.

Next assessment

Title, date and a countdown chip. From seven days out, the chip turns warm-coloured – that's the moment to start revising, not the evening before. Next to it is the category (“Written”, “Oral”, “Practical”).

If you've created tasks for this assessment via “Create study tasks” or right when you added the assessment, the state shows underneath: “2 of 3 study tasks done”. patchio recognises them by the title and note the dialogue writes – wherever they've ended up in your task lists. If there aren't any, the line stays away (rather than claiming “0 of 0”). If you rename an assessment afterwards, the overview won't find the old study tasks any more – create new ones in that case.

Assessment density

Six calendar weeks ahead, one segment per week with a dot per assessment in the subject's colour. Empty weeks stay in view – otherwise you wouldn't be able to see where the density sits.

From three assessments in one week, the segment gets a warning outline and a plain-text sentence underneath:

⚠ Week 40 is going to be tough: maths, English and biology in one week – start early.

The subjects are listed in the order of their dates. This is an observation, not a criticism: three tests in one week is the school's call, not yours. What you do about it is the real question – and it helps to know two weeks ahead.

Subjects this half-year

One line per subject with grades: a colour dot, the name, a small grade trend line (in chronological order, the latest one fully drawn), a trend arrow and the current average.

The arrow compares the most recent grades with the ones before, not just the last one with the one before that – one slip isn't a trend. ▲ always means “improved”, even where the numbers move the other way: on the 1–6 scale it goes down, while in Switzerland (where 6 is the best grade) and in the sixth form (15-point scale) it goes up. The trend line works the same way: up always means better. With fewer than two grades, there's no arrow.

The average comes from the same calculation as on the Grades tab, using the subject's weighting. It's a guide – the teacher sets the report grade (Zeugnisnote) as an overall judgement.

This block follows the grade visibility setting. If it's set to “Only the child”, a parent won't see an average, a line or an arrow here – just a note that the grades are private. An arrow alone would already give away something about the grades. The child themselves sees the block as normal. More on this under “Who can see the grades?”.

This week

At the top, the total and the number of afternoons – counting days with at least one period ending after 13:30. Below that, the five days with their times (“Mon 8:00–15:30 · Afternoon”); today is highlighted, and free days show their reason.

If the school has A/B weeks, the right week is already worked out; a note “Week A” sits above it. A double period counts as two periods, once the period grid is set up.

Holidays, your own recorded days off and public holidays don't count towards this. In a week with a public holiday, the period count is lower than usual – not a counting error, just the week your child actually has.

Until the holidays

The countdown counts in school days, not calendar days: weekends, holidays and your own recorded days off are already subtracted. “14 school days to go” is the number your child actually experiences.

If a holiday period is running right now, the overview counts down its remaining days instead of already pointing to the next one. Below that are the school's region and the next school event – the current school trip (Klassenfahrt), or otherwise the next one starting.

For Austria and some Swiss cantons, patchio doesn't have holiday dates yet; in that case, the block says so rather than guessing.

And if there's nothing here yet?

A freshly created school profile shows a note pointing you to the subjects, instead of the cards. Once subjects, a timetable and the first dates are in place, the overview fills in on its own.