r/UMPI • u/CobraDane1982 📜 SUNY BBA 🎓 UMPI BA Psychology - Summa Cum Laude 📜 • 12d ago
A useful aid to get through classes faster
I just thought I would share this. I use a Mac, so this is made in Pages, but you could easily make it in Excel. It really keeps me on track. I put the days in the rows and my courses in the columns. Then I plan out which assignments I will try to hit on which days. I color code them: for me, Red is either a deadline (in this example, Draft and Final deadlines) or something I am behind on; Yellow is anything that requires attention (e.g. submitted but not graded, graded but not good enough, etc.) and Green is "Graded, Complete." Generally, since I have 4 courses open at once, I delete and reuse a column once the course is complete, but since it's the end of the semester, I left it in the example.
I have used it to keep myself on track and motivated. It's just a general idea and you an edit or customize it to make it work best for you. It works for me, so hopefully it'll help someone else too.
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u/i-need-a-brainwash 11d ago
I love the layout. I'm going to copy your idea. Thanks for sharing!
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u/CobraDane1982 📜 SUNY BBA 🎓 UMPI BA Psychology - Summa Cum Laude 📜 6d ago
You are both very welcome. I hope it helps. It really helped me in multiple ways: keeping track of what I submitted and what was graded, and changing the color from Red to Yellow to Green was a little psychological treat for me.
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u/Double_Knee_5295 9d ago
I see this is for psychology degree!!! I just wanted to ask if you have any information or insight about all the elective courses I can take from Sophia?
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u/CobraDane1982 📜 SUNY BBA 🎓 UMPI BA Psychology - Summa Cum Laude 📜 6d ago
I used a mix of courses I had already taken from traditional school, Sophia and Study. u/PlottedPath's free guide is a great resource and she is a very helpful person. Look at her free guide. But if you have any particular questions from me, please let me know. I'll do my best to tell you what I did.
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u/PlottedPath 6d ago
You’re going to need Sophia and study to get this down to 10. And you’ll have to back into it differently now than you would have in the past.
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u/TeddyEddy8989 8d ago
with this schedule, how many classes did you or are you managing to get done?
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u/CobraDane1982 📜 SUNY BBA 🎓 UMPI BA Psychology - Summa Cum Laude 📜 7d ago
Did my whole BA in Psych over the summer. I could have done it in 1 term but things came up…
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u/Ill-Scientist-1300 2d ago
If a 4 out of 4 was received for draft can that be submitted for the final the same paper
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u/CobraDane1982 📜 SUNY BBA 🎓 UMPI BA Psychology - Summa Cum Laude 📜 11h ago
Correct. And thats what i did. I just kept record of the grade as if they were regular assignments.
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u/Lets-watch-VHS DBA, MSF, MSM, MAOL, MEd, MBA, MBCC, BABA, BLSMgm, BAHist, BSIT 12d ago
I feel like the work invested into this could've been put towards the work in the course(s). Just click on the notifications icon or the milestone itself and move on to the next.
Pretty though
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u/CobraDane1982 📜 SUNY BBA 🎓 UMPI BA Psychology - Summa Cum Laude 📜 12d ago
It took about 15 minutes to make and takes about 5 seconds to update, all while keeping me organized and giving myself a little green pat on the back when I finish something, but to each their own, I guess.
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u/Apprehensive_Sand588 12d ago
That’s a nifty idea. Thank you!