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How Can Students Stay Organized and On Top of Assignments During Distance Learning
How Can Students Stay Organized and On Top of Assignments During Distance Learning
Staying organized is one of the most aspects of online learning. Since you may not have daily face-to-face contact with your teachers and other students, you'll have to keep yourself on track. The resources below are intended to help you stay on top of your class work.
WEEKLY PLANNERS
WEEKLY PLANNERS
Weekly Planning Page - Simple, clean weekly planner from Day Designer.
Weekly Planner - Weekly Planner from Scattered Squirrel
ORGANIZATIONAL APPS
ORGANIZATIONAL APPS
myHomework Student Planner
myHomework Student Planner
Do you forget your school agenda? Have trouble when you study reading what you wrote in your planner? Are you looking for a replacement to that paper student planner, school diary, or academic agenda? myHomework is just what you're looking for.
Find this app in the App Store here.
The Homework App
The Homework App
Featured in Forbes Magazine, Lifehacker and Paste Magazine, The Homework App offers lots of ways to keep track of your homework. You can use the calendar to look at your tasks on a daily, monthly or yearly basis, and add subtasks so you can organize projects that have multiple steps. You can also set reminders to do homework tasks, and you can keep track of all of your teachers’ contact info, too. Plus, The Homework App allows you to choose between an A/B schedule, weekly schedule or rotating schedule.
Find this app in the App Store here.
My Study Life
My Study Life
This app is a full-fledged homework management app with its own web application, which is awesome because you can check your assignments from your computer or your phone. Plus, the calendar view shows all of your classes and assignments at the same time, and it shows you incomplete tasks that are due soon so you know what to work on first. The design is unique, too, with circles showing what percentage of a task is completed and how much more you have to go.
Find this app in the Ap Store here.
How Students Can Prepare For Online Learning
How Students Can Prepare For Online Learning
Taking courses online can be a little like taking courses in a foreign country. Most of us are still learning the norms and expectations of the online environment. Online courses can work for any student, just as a physical, onsite classroom with face-to-face instruction can work for any student. Taking an online class requires just as much time and effort as class on campus, however, the effort may look very different. Clairemont High School has put together a number of tips and tricks to help you better prepare for an entirely online learning experience.
Reading is key
Remember that you won't have all those non-verbal cues that you get in the physical classroom and neither will your instructor. Also, your instructor's role will be much less that of the distributor of information, and much more that of a guide or resource for you in exploring an area of knowledge. Almost all your information will come in the form of words. Words on the screen help the instructor "see" you much more clearly. The teaching style used in online courses may be different from the traditional college model. Taking a class online means you won't be sitting quietly in the classroom; participation is even more essential.
Communication is key
As always, effective communication is critical to success. It's even more important in the online environment because your instructor can't see your frown, or hear the question in your voice. Here, you'll be responsible for initiating more contact, for being persistent and vocal when you don't understand something. Your instructor wants to help - please write your question and send it along, express your confusion, your concern, and be direct! You will save a lot of time, and both you and your instructor will know better what you intend. Be sure and ask about anything and everything that has to do with course content, course procedure and evaluation.
Do's and Don’ts
Take time to review all the help files available.
Don't read material just once. Multiple reading, line-by-line reading are among the keys to understanding important topics.
Spend some time just navigating your way through the class and making sure you can figure out what the buttons are for.
Don't expect too much, too soon. Study and then re-study.
Manage your time. You will find that your time management skills will be critical in an online class. Why? Because it's very easy to spend either far too little time, or far too much time on the class. Set designated blocks of time to work on the class. This will help you stay up with the assignments and with the interaction required in most online classes.
Download or print out pages for reference and review away from the computer.
Set priorities and pay close attention to what your instructor says about priorities.
Try hard to complete work independently before you ask for help.
Don't give up. Like most things, this experience will get easier over time.
More Rules of the Road
Participate. In the online environment, it's not enough to show up! We need to hear your voice to feel your presence, and we especially need your comments to add to the information, the shared learning, and the sense of community in each class.
Be persistent. Remember that we're all working in a fairly new environment. If you run into any difficulties, don't wait! Send a note immediately to the instructor of the course listed on the syllabus. Most problems are easily solved, but we have to hear from you before we can help.
Share tips, helps, and questions. For many of us, taking online courses is a new frontier. There are no dumb questions, and even if you think your solution is obvious, please share it! Someone in the class will appreciate it.
Think before you push the send button. Did you say just what you meant? How will the person on the other end read the words? While you can't anticipate all reactions, do read over what you've written before you send it.
Be patient. As much as your instructor will try to be prompt in answering questions, please do not expect instantaneous responses to your queries. Learn how to set breakpoints in your study, so that you can return exactly to the point when your question is answered. Be patient with yourself as well; give the material a chance to soak in.
Plagiarism, cheating and other violations of ethical student behavior are serious actions in a learning community. You should expect to be treated accordingly. Specific policies regarding such actions are spelled out in the Student Handbook, which is available on our school’s website.
Adapted from: Tips for Taking Online Classes (Links to an external site.)
10 Best Ergonomic Laptop Setup Tips
10 Best Ergonomic Laptop Setup Tips
How you set up and use your laptop can affect the amount of stress placed on your neck and back. Here are 10 ideas for keeping your spine pain-free while being productive on a laptop.
https://www.spine-health.com/blog/10-best-ergonomic-laptop-setup-tips
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