Update your plan for the rest of the semester.

Week 10 Module 9 Update your plan for the rest of the semester.

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College coursework, on top of your other classes and life obligations, can feel entirely overwhelming and often triggers procrastination unless you have a good plan in place that helps make each week manageable. Every week in our COMM 1500 class, you will earn 5 points for updating your weekly plan to show when you plan to accomplish all of your tasks for the week. 

 This week's graded planning tasks

1. Update your plan for the rest of the semester. If you didn't get it started last week, follow the directions below: 
   1. Make a copy of My plan for the rest of the semester (Links to an Google document) Links to an external site.. 
   2. Change the name of "Other Class #1" to your most demanding class other than Public Speaking. 
   3. Change the name of Other Class #2 to your 2nd most demanding class (continue with Other Class #3, #4, etc...)
   4. Add in all the school, activity and family deadlines, appointments, and commitments you know of for the rest of the semester. It may help to discuss this with your family so they can help you fill in family commitments (trips, appointments, family events). 
2. Update your rough plan for when you will complete the big assignments related to the Problem speech (research, outline, slides, practice). On the dates that you plan to do the work, type, in green, the approximate time you plan to spend on the work (example: research assignment, 8-10 pm). You may find that you will have several lines on particular dates. 
3. Turn in your completed plan.

For the remaining weeks this semester, you will update this plan and submit each week. 

Prioritize completion of your problem outline

 Advice for creating a realistic and effective weekly schedule.

Adapted from: Weekly Schedule (Links to an external site) Links to an external site. 

• Plan for real life. Be realistic about what you can accomplish each day. For example, make sure you have some gaps between activities to allow for down time, eating, and travel.
• Give yourself enough time. Budget at least 2 hours of homework for every hour of college class time and 30 minutes to 1 hour of homework for every hour of high school class time (by now you likely have a good sense of the work load in your high school classes. Plan accordingly).
• Plan study time. Plan blocks of time when you can study and work on assignments, and then figure out what work you need to do in each time slot.
• Use study groups to cut reading time. You can cut your reading time for your classes by 50-75% with an effective study group where you share PDFs of pages, divide the reading, and share a single highlighted copy on Google docs.
• Plan time for fun. Leave time in your schedule for the things that make life worthwhile, such as hobbies or time with friends.
• Don’t over-commit. Try to avoid cramming your schedule with activities and tasks. Leave some free time for flexibility. Remember: you are not going to be able to predict all of the unexpected events that can and will happen.
• Spread things out. Try to spread activities without fixed times across the week so that they are not all concentrated on already busy days.