SOS 110 and LIB 495 Course Due Dates and Organization hack

[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. 

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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.