Time Management Tips By Faculty

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Managing your time is extremely important,
especially for those who are working part-time

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or full-time jobs.

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If you don’t, it means that you always have
to be playing catch up with your assignments

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and you do not want to have to be playing
catch up with your assignments.

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This means you’ll be able to submit the best
possible work to your professor.

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Students should expect to log in to my class
every day.

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It’s not going to be hours and hours every
day that they’re struggling with my class.

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But they should log in and keep up.

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By all means, please just keep up.

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Sometimes students wait and look at the assignment
maybe an hour before it’s due and then they

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discover to their shock that it’s going to
take a really long time.

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And if they’re working on it at 11 o’clock
at night and it’s due at 11:59 that night,

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I might not be online at 11 o’clock at night
or 11:15 at night.

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So, if they can start the assignment early
enough to ask questions, I can help them get

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through the assignment.

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Just because a student is taking an online
class, they shouldn’t expect to spend less

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time preparing and taking the class as they
do face-to-face.

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Now, of course, it depends upon the level
of the course, whether we’re dealing with

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a 2000, 3000, or 4000 level course.

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But I always tell my students that they should
expect to spend at least the same amount of

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time my face-to-face students spend in the
classroom on the online universe learning

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and understanding the material.

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So, students should allocate the same amount
of time and effort that they would be putting

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into a regular face-to-face course.

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So, if they spend two and a half hours a week
in a face-to-face class, they need to use

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that same amount of time in an online course
as well.

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Now, that’s in addition to study time where
preparing for assignments and so forth.

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On average, I would say contributing at least
two to five hours a week preparing for their

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coursework.

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In my course that I teach online, which is
a mixed mode course, you can expect maybe

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2 hours a week, maybe 3 hours a week of online
and that includes your reading and the assignments

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that I do.

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But, if you’re in an upper-level class, also,
in my own experience, when I did my master’s

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online, I spent as much as 16 hours a week
in front of the computer researching and writing.

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So, it really depends on the course but take
lead from your instructor, look at your syllabus

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and the amount of work you can gauge from
the readings and the assignments that are

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there.

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But, the important thing is to do that and
then set aside that time.