Time Management Supports
Time Management can be very powerful as you are preparing for your semester.
Many strategies and apps support time management.
Try the Time Management Calculator (Univ of Pittsburgh)
Staying Ahead with Time Management Strategies – 8 is GREAT (Step by Step Planner)
It is a method to help you find a balance between school, sleep, and your social life by dedicating 8 hours a day to each of these areas. It may help to think about school as your full-time job and defining 8 hours a day to work on your schoolwork, which includes class time and the time to read, prepare notes, and complete assignments. Typical students require 2 times the amount of time in class or credit hours enrolled per week. For example, I’m taking 12 credits of classes. I need to plan 24 hours outside of class per week to do the work to prepare for the classes.
Digital Calendars make this strategy pretty easy to implement. The benefit of digital calendars is that they are cloud-based, sync across multiple devices, send notifications to mobile devices, and usually have a place where you can keep a list of tasks to complete during the time you are planning.
Assignment Planners help break long-term assignments down into a workable timeline. There are many available, but the majority are designed for writing research papers. The University of Toronto offers a calculator that breaks down various assignment types into manageable pieces.
Assignment Planner (University of Toronto)
Get distracted while online?
Strict Workflow – a timer-based extension available in Google Chrome that blocks certain websites for 25 minutes at a time and then gives you a 5-minute window to access distracting websites (customizable blacklist).
Pomodoro Timers – apps to support the Pomodoro Technique of staying focused for 25 minutes on a task and then taking a 5-minute break.