This document provides a plan for students who are not current with their journalism assignments. It instructs students to open their grades and assignment schedule to determine which assignments need to be completed. Students are then told to count the number of missing assignments and divide by the number of days available to get the assignments done. For example, if 8 assignments are missing and there are 4 days, the student needs to complete 2 assignments per day. The document emphasizes communicating with the teacher for help and forming the habit of accessing the course daily.

1. Plan for Becoming Current with
Assignments
W H A T T O D O I F Y O U ’ R E N O T C U R R E N T W I T H
YOUR WORK IN JOURNALISM

2. Why is it important to have a plan?
 Remember the saying: If you’re failing to plan,
you’re planning to fail!
 If you know what you need to do each day to get
your work done, you’ll have a goal…right?

3. What’s the plan?
Open My Grades to see which assignments you have completed and
which you haven’t completed.
Download and open your Assignment Schedule.
 If you have a grade on an assignment, you know you’ve
completed that assignment. (Remember to read my
comments)
 If you don’t have a grade and you don’t see an assignment
file waiting to be graded, mark that on your Assignment
Schedule as an assignment you need to complete.

4. What do I do next?
 Count the number of assignments you need to complete to become
current. (Check your Assignment Schedule…Every assignment is listed
with a due date)..
 Divide the number of assignments you need to complete to become
current by the number of days you have to become current.
 Example: If you have not completed 8 assignments in Module 1 and you
have 4 days to finish all the work in Module 1, you must complete 2
assignments a day to become current!...Or you can complete 4
assignments each day for 2 days.
 It’s that easy!

5. How can I be successful in this class?
 When you do “something” every day, you form the habit of going into
your course regularly.
 Remember, this is a class just like those you attend on your high school
campus. When you don’t access your course, you haven’t attended class
that day.
 A report within your course gives your teacher information about how
many days, or hours it’s been since you accessed this course.
 When you do something each day, you don’t fall so far behind that you
feel overwhelmed by the remaining work due.

6. Working together
 Remember, if you have a questions, send an e-mail, text
me, or call.
 Find me in Blackboard IM.
 If you need to instant message with me, text me or send
an e-mail to let me know when you’ll be on the computer
and that you need to instant message about an
assignment and I’ll open Blackboard IM and message
with you.
 Bottom line: Communicate!