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Plan for Becoming Current with Assignments

Why is it important to have a plan?

Remember the saying: If you’re failing to plan, you’re planning to fail!

If you know what you need to do each day to get your work done, you’ll have a goal…right?

What’s the plan?

Open My Grades to see which assignments you have completed and which you haven’t completed.

Download and open your Assignment Schedule.

If you have a grade on an assignment, you know you’ve completed that assignment. (Remember to read my comments)

If you don’t have a grade and you don’t see an assignment file waiting to be graded, mark that on your Assignment Schedule as an assignment you need to complete.

What do I do next?

Count the number of assignments you need to complete to become current. (Check your Assignment Schedule…Every assignment is listed with a due date)..

Divide the number of assignments you need to complete to become current by the number of days you have to become current.

Example: If you have not completed 4 assignments in Module 2 and you have 2 days to finish everything through Module 2, you must complete 2 assignments a day to become current!

It’s that easy!

How can I be successful in this class?

When you do “something” every day, you form the habit of going into your course regularly.

Remember, this is a class just like those you attend on your high school campus. When you don’t access your course, you haven’t attended class that day.

A report within your course gives your teacher information about how many days, or hours it’s been since you accessed this course.

When you do something each day, you don’t fall so far behind that you

feel overwhelmed by the remaining work due.

Working together

Remember, if you have a questions, send an e-mail, text me, or call.

Find me in Blackboard IM.

If you need to instant message with me, text me or send an e-mail to let me know when you’ll be on the computer and that you need to instant message about an assignment and I’ll open Blackboard IM and message with you.

Bottom line: Communicate!