SOS 110 and LIB 495 Course Due Dates and Organization hack

[Amberlinjeanne]

Hi there!

I am enrolled in the October term for my final two courses - SOS 110 & LIB 495. However, I initially found the organization of Moodle and the syllabus to be a little scattered for my ADHD brain so I made my own spreadsheet with assignments and due dates. I wanted to attach it here in case anyone else finds it useful for this semester or in the future. Feel free to change dates to reflect whatever term you will be enrolled in. The 12-week schedule can be found on the tesu website. 

Note: I am doing guided study for my capstone since it was all that was available so no discussions are necessary but feel free to add them in if you take the online course format.

[LevelUP]

Hi there!

I am enrolled in the October term for my final two courses - SOS 110 & LIB 495. However, I initially found the organization of Moodle and the syllabus to be a little scattered for my ADHD brain so I made my own spreadsheet with assignments and due dates. I wanted to attach it here in case anyone else finds it useful for this semester or in the future. Feel free to change dates to reflect whatever term you will be enrolled in. The 12-week schedule can be found on the tesu website. 

Note: I am doing guided study for my capstone since it was all that was available so no discussions are necessary but feel free to add them in if you take the online course format.

All those deadlines just add a bunch of confusion, IMO.

When you do the forum post, make the response at the same time. No need to set an additional deadline for writing 2 sentences.

Get all the quizzes done on day 1.

I would suggest getting all the Nimble and MyLab stuff done in the first 2 weeks. 

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...Experience

[Amberlinjeanne]

Hi there!

I am enrolled in the October term for my final two courses - SOS 110 & LIB 495. However, I initially found the organization of Moodle and the syllabus to be a little scattered for my ADHD brain so I made my own spreadsheet with assignments and due dates. I wanted to attach it here in case anyone else finds it useful for this semester or in the future. Feel free to change dates to reflect whatever term you will be enrolled in. The 12-week schedule can be found on the tesu website. 

Note: I am doing guided study for my capstone since it was all that was available so no discussions are necessary but feel free to add them in if you take the online course format.

All those deadlines just add a bunch of confusion, IMO.

When you do the forum post, make the response at the same time. No need to set an additional deadline for writing 2 sentences.

Get all the quizzes done on day 1.

I would suggest getting all the Nimble and MyLab stuff done in the first 2 weeks. 

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...Experience

I got 36% of the course done today between mylab/nimblywise/quizzes so I was able to work ahead a lot, but I just wanted to share in case this happened to be helpful for someone else to visually see what all is required and what days they are due. At my other school I had a checklist available in the LMS that kinda structured it like this and wanted to make something similar so nothing fell through the cracks!

[BrianFallon]

Hi there!

I am enrolled in the October term for my final two courses - SOS 110 & LIB 495. However, I initially found the organization of Moodle and the syllabus to be a little scattered for my ADHD brain so I made my own spreadsheet with assignments and due dates. I wanted to attach it here in case anyone else finds it useful for this semester or in the future. Feel free to change dates to reflect whatever term you will be enrolled in. The 12-week schedule can be found on the tesu website. 

Note: I am doing guided study for my capstone since it was all that was available so no discussions are necessary but feel free to add them in if you take the online course format.

All those deadlines just add a bunch of confusion, IMO.

When you do the forum post, make the response at the same time. No need to set an additional deadline for writing 2 sentences.

Get all the quizzes done on day 1.

I would suggest getting all the Nimble and MyLab stuff done in the first 2 weeks. 

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...Experience

RE:  "When you do the forum post, make the response at the same time. No need to set an additional deadline for writing 2 sentences."

The mentor I have for SOS 110 actually posted there should be no "early" posts (i.e. before that module opens in the syllabus) AND that your response should be on a different day than your posting.  (I think it's ridiculous)  Here is what she wrote:

"The initial response to the discussion question should be posted on the due date according to the course calendar.
For example: Post the first response to the discussion question for Discussion Forum 2 on Tuesday 8/15/22 by 10:59pm.
Respond to 2 students in the class by Friday 8/19/22 at 10:59pm.
It is preferable that responses to 2 students do not occur on the same day. The reasons for this is to keep the discussion "active" for the entire discussion week and allow for all students to receive a response and participate in discussion. 
Also know that if the initial response or responses to other students are not posted between Tuesday and Friday of the discussion week there is a penalty and credit will only be given for the initial response to the discussion question which would be 50%. I do this to provide some credit instead of no credit."

This mentor is also fond of adding what I believe they think is a clarifying  statement to the written assignments - some just days before it was due.  I submitted an assignment as soon as the module opened as I pre-wrote it when the class started.  It was the assignment to select three sources or something.  The mentor THEN suggested changes she wanted to see.

So, my answer is - it depends.

[rachel83az]

Which mentor did that? I'd want to avoid them, if at all possible, and I'm sure others here would also like to avoid that kind of nonsense.

[jch]

I agree, that's out of the norm at TESU. None of my mentors have attempted to impose such restrictions. Of course they want to ensure that everyone remains roughly on pace and engages in good discussions, but that's out of line.
When I get in the discussion post writing groove, I like to work ahead and knock out several modules at once. I almost always try to get a reply or two done immediately after submitting my post, as long as there's enough other threads. Of course, I circle back before each reply deadline to address anything else that comes up. Nobody has ever had a problem with my approach.

[spohara]

Hi there!

I am enrolled in the October term for my final two courses - SOS 110 & LIB 495. However, I initially found the organization of Moodle and the syllabus to be a little scattered for my ADHD brain so I made my own spreadsheet with assignments and due dates. I wanted to attach it here in case anyone else finds it useful for this semester or in the future. Feel free to change dates to reflect whatever term you will be enrolled in. The 12-week schedule can be found on the tesu website. 

Note: I am doing guided study for my capstone since it was all that was available so no discussions are necessary but feel free to add them in if you take the online course format.

For the capstone, you have 8 written assignments listed, but the syllabus they post publicly online seems to be out of date(from Jul 2019, only has 4 written assignments).  Are you allowed to share the updated syllabus? I'm going to start mine in Dec, but I want to have the lit review and original research completed prior to starting.  Just curious if there is anything else I needed to look out for.

[Amberlinjeanne]

Hi there!

I am enrolled in the October term for my final two courses - SOS 110 & LIB 495. However, I initially found the organization of Moodle and the syllabus to be a little scattered for my ADHD brain so I made my own spreadsheet with assignments and due dates. I wanted to attach it here in case anyone else finds it useful for this semester or in the future. Feel free to change dates to reflect whatever term you will be enrolled in. The 12-week schedule can be found on the tesu website. 

Note: I am doing guided study for my capstone since it was all that was available so no discussions are necessary but feel free to add them in if you take the online course format.

For the capstone, you have 8 written assignments listed, but the syllabus they post publicly online seems to be out of date(from Jul 2019, only has 4 written assignments).  Are you allowed to share the updated syllabus? I'm going to start mine in Dec, but I want to have the lit review and original research completed prior to starting.  Just curious if there is anything else I needed to look out for.

Hey! If you want to PM me I can share the syllabus and some of the assignment instructions if you want. The discrepancy isn’t in the date of the syllabus, but the structure. The online class was completely full when I registered, so guided study was my only option. Since there are no discussions, extra writing assignments are added in place of them. So the one you have is probably correct for the online course.  Lemme know if you have any other questions!

[studyingfortests]

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RE:  "When you do the forum post, make the response at the same time. No need to set an additional deadline for writing 2 sentences."

The mentor I have for SOS 110 actually posted there should be no "early" posts (i.e. before that module opens in the syllabus) AND that your response should be on a different day than your posting.  (I think it's ridiculous)  Here is what she wrote:

"The initial response to the discussion question should be posted on the due date according to the course calendar.
For example: Post the first response to the discussion question for Discussion Forum 2 on Tuesday 8/15/22 by 10:59pm.
Respond to 2 students in the class by Friday 8/19/22 at 10:59pm.
It is preferable that responses to 2 students do not occur on the same day. The reasons for this is to keep the discussion "active" for the entire discussion week and allow for all students to receive a response and participate in discussion. 
Also know that if the initial response or responses to other students are not posted between Tuesday and Friday of the discussion week there is a penalty and credit will only be given for the initial response to the discussion question which would be 50%. I do this to provide some credit instead of no credit."

This mentor is also fond of adding what I believe they think is a clarifying  statement to the written assignments - some just days before it was due.  I submitted an assignment as soon as the module opened as I pre-wrote it when the class started.  It was the assignment to select three sources or something.  The mentor THEN suggested changes she wanted to see.

So, my answer is - it depends.

If I had a professor impose that sort of ridiculous expectation, *especially* changing terms of an assignment a few days before it’s due, I would either switch professors or bitch loudly

[LevelUP]

The professor said "preferable," which means it's not mandatory.

For the assignments, professors often place a grading emphasis on your ability to incorporate their feedback into your assignments. This is why I would give them a chance to grade your prior assignment and not turn in the next one until 1-2 days before it's due.