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Online colleges can be a godsend for stay at home parents and people who are trying to hold down a full time job (or two or three part-time jobs) and get a college degree. However, it can be difficult to keep up with the coursework. As an adult who just recently completed the course requirements for a Bachelor's in Health and Wellness at Kaplan University while holding down a full time job I can offer you 10 solid tips for succeeding as an online college student. Before I get started with the tips I should mention some tools and software that I found useful during my 18 months attending Kaplan. They are: three ring binders, a three-hole punch, notebooks (and pens), a wall calendar or personal organizer, note taking software (ex. Microsoft One Note), and word processing software. If you can't afford to buy this software then you can look for free or open source software such as Evernote and Open Office. Your school should list the type of software your assignments need to be formatted for. For example, Kaplan required that all our word documents be compatible with Microsoft's Word 2007. Tip #1: Take time to learn the user interface and get organized. I know how it is on your first day "in class." You are nervous, excited, and anxious to succeed. You want to do everything and you want to do it all right now! However, you will quickly get swamped by your assignments and course requirements if you don't take the time at the beginning of the term to get organized. So the first step is: Stop and breathe. Calm yourself down and take a good look around your user interface. Your school's user interface is the way you will be communicating with your fellow students, professors and advisors. Work on understanding it as quickly as possible. Find the contact information for your school's library help desk, student advisor, financial advisors, professors and tech support. Write this information down and put it where you can easily find it. Especially tech support! It's hard to ask tech support for help if you can't get into the school's web portal and you don't have their information written down. Double check this information at the start of every term, just in case something has changed during the break. Next: focus on organizing your class information. Find your syllabus for each class and either print them out and put them in a three ring binder or copy and paste them into your note taking program. I did both. This way I had the information readily available whether I was near my laptop or stuck in a day long training session with no computer access. The syllabus is full of vital information such as seminar times, professor contact information, grading system and project requirements. Tip #2: Create or find a checklist for your homework's objectives and deadlines. Now cruise around your classroom and weekly assignments. Find out what the requirements are for getting an "A" (the syllabus comes in handy here) and put that information where you can find it easily. Highlight it in the syllabus, bookmark it, write it up in your checklist, whatever. Just find it, read it, understand it and put it in an easy to refer to place. If you don't understand it, contact your professor right away and start asking questions. You can't afford the ding in your grade if you try to figure it out through trial and error. At Kaplan, we had to create a 100 word discussion board by midnight Saturday. Then we needed to post at least two responses to at least two different students on two different days (or on the same day, that part fluctuated, which is why it is important to read your syllabus). To make sure I didn't forget these details, I created an assignment checklist that included a tick box for each individual entry that I had to make to get an "A". To make sure I could turn the homework in on time even if I was "offline" for most of the week, I printed out the discussion board questions and project instructions. If I had the printer ink and paper I would print out the reference materials too. This is where your three ring binder and/or notebooks come in handy. The binder keeps your instructions, questions and reference materials organized and your notebook gives you all the space you need to hand write your discussion board posts and project rough drafts. Once you can get near the computer again you can quickly type up your written work, give it a quick polish and submit it. This technique made it possible for me to keep working on projects during the coffee and lunch breaks of some of my required day long training sessions for my full time job. I have suggested it to many of my fellow students and they all reported having great success using this method as well. Tip #3: Time management; create your routine for scholastic success. This where you get out your wall calendar or personal organizer and write in all your seminar times and homework due dates. I also found that assigning one class to each day helped me stay focused and less panicky during rough points in the term. For example, in my first term I was taking a class on Modern Nutrition and a class on Physical Fitness. I would set up my schedule like this: nutrition on Wednesday, fitness on Thursday, nutrition on Friday and so on in rotation to the end of the school week. I also set up the goal to have the rough drafts for both class's projects done by Sunday so that I could have Monday and Tuesday to revise and polish them. The brain needs time to switch over completely when we change tasks so by focusing on one class per day I was able to work more efficiently. Plus, if I got an anxiety attack about my projects and started wondering what I should do first, I could just look at my schedule and say, "Ok, it's Friday. I do nutrition on Friday's so I'll focus on that discussion board post and project today and work on my fitness discussion board post and project tomorrow. Tip #4: Find the big projects (such as your Final Project) and break them down. If you have access to it already, read over your final project instructions. These are big projects and the easiest way to get them done is to tackle them a little bit at a time. My first term at Kaplan I could have kicked myself because I didn't bother to look at the final project assignment and it wound up being a "craft your own reference manual based on each week's lessons" type of project. If I had looked at the instructions in the beginning, I would have been able to work on that project week by week and the last week would have been a relaxed time of editing and proofreading. Instead I wound up in a near round the clock frenzy of writing, researching and summarizing that left me stumbling and exhausted at the end. Not fun. Take the time to look for any weekly projects that may be due, read the instructions and make sure you understand what is required to get that "A". Most of them will be a challenge to complete, but not too devastating. They're usually along the lines of "Write three pages on the following case study. Be sure to address blah, blah, blah." That's not too hard. Sometimes however, you'll find a project that is particularly challenging for you or has requirements that are more difficult to meet than the other weekly projects. Finding these projects in advance gives you the chance to start on it early. You can ask questions and do advanced research and avoid the panic attack you would normally have the week that project is due. Professors like to help students, especially students who are thinking ahead. Tip #5: Be active in class and in seminar. Log into to class often, daily is preferable and at least read what the other students are posting, even if you aren't ready to make your primary post. Watching the conversation unfold for a few days can help kick start your brain if you don't know what to say and give you a chance to present a different take on the topic at hand. This helps you stand out in class because you aren't necessarily saying the same thing everyone else is with their primary posts. Being active in seminar is also critical. It shows the Professor that you are paying attention to the lecture and that you are actually thinking about the subject being discussed. At the start of the term, pay attention to what your professor says his or her preferences are for seminar participation and follow them. Don't just babble about the subject though. Try to make informed comments that demonstrate critical thinking or at least help your fellow students understand what is being discussed. My professors loved to see one student help another student understand the discussion. Tip #6: Back up everything. Use a flash drive, a CDRW, external hard drive, put it in "the cloud", print out a paper copy, do whatever it takes to keep backup copies of all your assignments. And I mean all of your assignments, not just the big projects. Make sure you keep copies of your discussion board postings (at least the primary posts) and your weekly projects. You would be surprised at what you might need to refer back to later for other projects or research sources. For my Bachelor's capstone class we were required to repost a lot of projects (mostly final projects, but some were weekly projects too) from past classes and comment on them. This caused quite a few of my classmates a bit of panic as they had lost track of several of these projects and had to scramble to find them or worse-recreate them within a week! So back it all up and keep it until you have actually graduated. If any project happened to be exceptionally good then you should keep it and ask your professor for permission to use it in a professional portfolio after graduation. Tip #7: Take note of any projects that a professor asks you for permission to post as an example to other students. Do this for two reasons: One: The project is clearly some of your best work and can be used in a professional portfolio after school (see tip #6). Two: You may need the morale boost when you start to feel down about your skills and abilities. Somehow it always seems that we forget our accomplishments and remember every failure. We should always keep track of our accomplishments so that we don't start to doubt ourselves. You may need the morale boost while you are struggling with a particularly tough project or when you are job hunting after graduation. Tip #8: Collect and control all financial and admissions paperwork. It is a simple fact of life that the school's financial and admissions department will make mistakes. You may find yourself struggling to prove that you have made a payment, submitted a signed loan agreement or even registered for a particular set of classes. To make dealing with these crises easier, keep track of all your financial documents, registration documents and keep a running log of your phone calls. Make sure you note down the time and date of the call, as well as the name of the person you spoke to and what you discussed or agreed to. On another note, tax season is a great time to pull together your financial documents for your yearly FAFSA application. You will need copies of your W-2 statements and information on your checking and savings account (plus whatever other sources of income you have) and those papers come to you naturally during tax season. So set up a FAFSA file and make sure copies of the appropriate papers wind up in it. It makes the FAFSA application go much more quickly and smoothly in May. Tip #9: Network with fellow students. Make friends with your classmates whenever possible and add them to your social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.). This way you can work together outside of class in study groups. If a fellow student has already taken a class you are struggling in, they can help explain to you what the professor wants or help you understand the subject matter more. After graduation you will have a new source of contacts for references and job hunting tips. Tip #10: Be creative when looking for spaces to study or attend class and don't be shy about explaining what you are doing. When I first started at Kaplan, I couldn't avoid having a class at the most awkward time of day for me: 10pm. At 10pm I have dropped my husband off at his job and am driving to my own job 30 miles away. Luckily, my shift doesn't start until midnight so I would usually have an hour to spare once I arrived and I spend that hour napping on my mom's couch (she happens to live 10 minutes from my job). I couldn't get to my mom's in time to use her internet nor could I drive back home in time to attend class. That class was mandatory so I had to get creative. Right across from where my husband works is a McDonald's and like most McDonald's these days, they provide free wireless internet access to their customers. They also didn't close until 11pm which gave me just enough time for class. I've worked closings at a fast food joint before so I knew they would want to know why I would be huddled in a corner right up until closing (it gets in the way of clean up when a customer does this). On the first night of class I arrived a little early and explained that I wanted to attend an online class on Monday nights for the next ten weeks and that it would end at 11pm. I also promised to buy something to eat while I was there so I wouldn't just be taking up space. The staff's response was wonderfully supportive. The night managers were glad to assist someone trying to attend school in any way possible. They told me I could stay a little after 11 if I needed to ask my professor another question or two. I just had to tell them when I was ready to leave and they would unlock the door. They were also instantly responsive if I reported a problem connecting with the wireless internet and worked hard to make sure I could log into class on time. They even kept the local teenagers from bothering me or from being too loud while I was there. So don't be shy when you need place to log in. Look for a wireless hotspot that's convenient to you and your schedule and approach the staff about your needs. Most people admire the determination to get a higher education while you're still working or parenting and will want to help you out any way they can. Just be upfront with what you need and be ready to buy a coffee or snack salad in order to occupy that space for an hour. |
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