Course and Time Management / Course Etiquette

Balancing responsibilities can sometimes make life feel like we walk around like the jugglers in a circus. However, no matter how you look at it, we all have just 24 hours in a day. By managing your time wisely, planning ahead, and keeping on track with coursework, you will be able to accomplish more and enjoy added free time.

💻Course Management:

Take control of your own learning, you are responsible for your outcomes.

Read your syllabus for every course. Grading rationale, late work, and course guidelines should all be in the syllabus.
Access your course daily: Whether it’s a face-to-face, hybrid or online; be present. It’s ‘key to your degree!’
Read everything in the course: If your instructor(s) didn’t think it was important, it wouldn’t be in the course.
- Work on comprehending written and/or verbal directions, reading assignments, and their instructions completely for understanding what you are asked to accomplish.
  - Re-read instructions
- Contact your instructor if you cannot make sense of a concept or an assignment.
- Read comments and feedback from your instructor, you can learn from them, plus they usually will clarify concepts. Then
Optional non-graded assignments in your course? Do them, it’s a way to learn and retain information.
Do all coursework in the order shown.
- Course content normally is presented in a particular order to provide clear expectations in completing upcoming assignments, activities, and quizzes.
Don’t forget CCC Resource’s

⏰ Time Management:

It’s not about how much time you have, but how well you manage it

Create and maintain a consistent study schedule.
- Let family and friends know you’re in “study-mode” time.
Make notes of all due dates for each course for which you are registered. The Canvas calendar is located on the Global Navigation bar and holds all your course(s) dates in the same area.
- Use your course calendar to keep track of when activities are assigned and/or due.
- Canvas allows the use of color coding for visual insight of dates.
Get coursework completed before the deadline. This gives time to review before turning the work in to the instructor.
- Technology shouldn’t be a deterrent to not getting coursework done.
- Asking your instructor to extend a deadline when they have given you time to prepare, probably will not work. Remember: Extended Deadlines require extreme circumstances.

💭 Etiquette in the Online, Hybrid, and Face-to-Face (F2F) Classroom

School is a professional environment.

stay focused on the class
actively participate throughout the class, whether you're online or in a classroom
ask for help
use correct capitalization and grammar (i.e. Business Etiquette)
turn in all of the assignments, there's nothing like a couple of zeros to quickly bring down your grade
take your time on assignments
read the "To do" notes the instructor sends you (if used, they appear on the right-hand side of the course homepage.)
If an instructor has asked you to re-do an assignment, re-do it.
be polite

excerpts from: Purdue Global, Northeastern, and CCC LSS Staff