Online studying and working from home might make it easier for you to create a good time managed schedule for your studying and for other plans in your day; all you have to do is create your own table; gather up information from your course presentation or syllabus on how the semester will go on in terms of deadlines, course materials, exams and assignments for each course and then you might add important dates to you like: planned dinner with family. The trick here is not creating this very nice time planned schedule, but it is following the schedule, giving yourself the mental push and energy to work on these stuff as planned not for example spend the day sleeping.
To try and solve this problem, one might start narrowing the big picture semester schedule to a weekly one, prioritizing the weekly commitments and including the class times, work commitments, volunteer roles, practicum placements, as well as any other regular events. And then narrow it down a little bit more to daily schedule, helping in managing the daily tasks and prioritizing daily tasks based on deadlines, how much time they’ll take can the task wait or not and this schedule will help in completing all of the high priority tasks. And the best thing to do is to divide your day, we have a lot of time to do everything, so we might put small blocks of time for everything to benefit more and not feel trapped all the day doing one thing.
Daily tasks could be managed through paper planner, online calendar or a time management app, each has it’s own advantages and disadvantages. I personally prefer using the online calendar as I already know the interface and been using it even before online learning, it is easy to share with group members and it is a friendly user platform. To communicate and learn in the online learning environment, one should use the email professionally, try to make it grammatically correct, keep it brief, send the email for something that you actually need and wait for the reply for a while. Other tools that could be used to communicate are: forums, ePortfolios and online assignments. Lastly, it is very beneficiary to give and receive a feedback on What is being done correctly and well, How it can be improved and What the next steps might be.
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