I was tooling around on the internet like you do when a post caught my eye.

It claimed that the to-do list was dead. I love a good to-do list. Nothing more satisfying than making a list and crossing things off.

Yeah, I can see it. Especially for today’s young adults and teenagers. Heck, even the older adults.

It introduced the concept of a bingo card instead of a to-do list. The idea is that you populate the card with what needs to be done and you cross the squares off as you do them.

Genius.

That can be an exciting adjunct to a student’s portfolio of items to encourage productivity.

I used Canva to make the Spring semester 2025 bingo card and it was easy and free. Both of these things are important to a student’s life. I would make a bingo card for each class, filling in the squares with the details of the class. This includes reading, tests, quizzes, and papers.

The beauty of this is that it can be whatever you want it to be. Each row can be a type of thing for the class, or it can be staggered.

In the bingo card that I mocked up as an example, I staggered all 14 weeks of reading, added the 3 tests, the quiz, and the midterm and final. I left a line to be filled in for exact dates.

I also added a second free square, just because.

My personal Spring Semester 2025 bingo card looks a bit different as I have finished with classes and now all I have left are tasks. I have already mapped out my spring semester, including all the tasks that need to be done for the dissertation.

As with many things, I wish I or someone else had thought of this when I was actively in classes.

Because this could be a game-changer. Gamification is exciting.

I am going for a blackout on my bingo card.