The document provides a comprehensive guide on effective organization and time management strategies for students, emphasizing the importance of planning tasks and prioritizing assignments. It includes various tools such as daily planners, to-do lists, and timetables, as well as methods for managing study environments and materials. Additionally, it offers tips for organizing notes and files both physically and digitally to enhance productivity and reduce stress.

1. Organisation

2. Organisation
- Why is organisation important?
- How can I manage my time?
- How do I prioritise?
- How do I study at home?
- How do I organise all of my
materials?

3. Why is organisation important?
So you can hand things in
on time, to a high
standard.
To keep stress low by
not working on 20
assignments at once
and rushing.
So that you don’t
waste time searching
through endless piles
of notes.

4. How can I manage my time?
Daily Planners
- Available online, or make your own.
- Spaces for tasks, appointments
(lessons), notes, things to buy.
- Some also track meals and water.
- Can track a lot, but it’s not always
practical to keep with you.
- Good for home study days.

5. How can I manage my time?
To Do List
- Create in a notebook.
- Quick list of all tasks to complete
during the day.
- Can create a monthly one, then
move tasks into daily to-do lists.
- Motivating as you can cross things
off.
- Helps prioritisation.
- Can be demoralising if you put too much
on.

6. How can I manage my time?
Week Planners
- Available online, or in shops.
- Space to record lesson times and
short notes.
- You can easily see your weekly schedule.
- But, there’s not much room for detailed
notes.

7. How can I manage my time?
Calendar
- Available online, or in shops.
- Small space for daily appointments
and reminders.
- Brief.
- You can see a whole month at once.

8. How can I manage my time?
Calendar App
- Comes preinstalled, or download
through app store.
- Colour coded entries.
- Daily, weekly or monthly view.
- VERY flexible.
- Sends reminders.
- Can link with other people’s
calendars.

9. How can I manage my time?
Bullet Journals
- Make yourself (plenty of ideas online.
- Create monthly, weekly and daily
pages.
- VERY flexible.
- Set up pages to track habits.
- Takes a long time to create and keep
updated.

10. How can I manage my time?
Timetables
- Make yourself, or download a
template.
- Simply lays out your day.
- Easy way to plan your day.
- Great for revision or unstructured days.

11. How can I manage my time?
Spend 5 minutes
each morning
planning your day.
Break down your
work into small
chunks so it feels
more manageable.
Make sure you
know every
deadline.

12. Time Management Activity
Write a to-do list.

13. How do I prioritise?
Prioritise: determine an order to complete tasks
based on their importance.
Most
important!
Least
important.
Do these first.
Do these last. “Eat the frog” –
Mark Twain.

14. How do I prioritise?
High Priority
- Close deadlines.
- High percentage of
your grade.
- Overdue.
- Organisational
measures.
Low Priority
- Far off deadlines
(these will become
high priority).
- Not completely
relevant to your
course.
- Social media.

15. How do I prioritise?
Stephen R. Covey’s Prioritisation Matrix
It’s important
that these get
done, but they
are not urgent.
Mostly
pointless
activities-
social media,
staring into
space....
These are
usually caused
by other
people- texts,
calls, etc.
These are your
assignments,
revision and
projects.

16. Prioritisation Task
You have created a
to-do list of all of
your tasks this
week. Can you put
them in order from
most important to
least important?
Date: Monday 23rd September
Task Deadline
Renew bus pass. Friday 27th Sept.
Assignment 1- half written but
needs finishing and
proofreading.
Friday 27th Sept.
Assignment 2- started, but still
needs 300 words.
Thursday 19th Sept.
Group Project- Already
discussed with the group, you
need to make 2 slides.
Tuesday 15th October.
Email from Academic Coach ?
Online Activity- 20 minute
questionnaire.
Tuesday 24th September.

17. How do I study at home?
You will have one or two non-
college days. They are for
independent study.
Teachers will not be able to
give you all the information
you need- you need to use
your home study days.

18. How do I study at home?
Timers
Sitting down for hours is daunting.
Set a timer for 20-30 minutes, then
have a 5-10 minute break.
Studying in small chunks at a time
is more effective.

19. How do I study at home?
Remove Distractions
- Switch your phone to silent
and hide your tablet.
- Turn off wifi.
- Listen to instrumental music.

20. How do I study at home?
Clear Tasks
- Write a list of tasks to
complete.
- Tick them off when done.
- Break assignments into smaller
chunks.

21. How do I organise my materials?
You will need:
Lever Arch File- one
per subject.
Notebook.Dividers. Plastic Wallet.

22. How do I organise my materials?
- Use one notebook and one folder for each subject.
(Try keeping the colours the same.)
- Take your notebook and your plastic wallet to
lessons, leave your folder at home.

23. How do I organise my materials?
- Keep all notes for one subject in the notebook.
- Make sure you have the date and lesson title at
the top.
- Put all paperwork into your plastic wallet.
- File your paperwork into the appropriate folder.
- Use dividers to separated topics within a subject.

24. How do I organise my materials?
Bonus Tips!
Don’t just shove papers
into your bag.
Clear your bag out
every Friday.

25. How do I organise my computer?
Make use of folders.
Name documents properly
when you save them. Don’t
have
hufdjkHGGD74638.pdf in
your folders…
Never save things to desktop.
Don’t leave things in your
downloads folder.
Sort through once each
week- get rid of rubbish and
make sure file names are
descriptive.

26. How do I organise my computer?
Clearly named folders for each unit.

27. How do I organise my computer?
Clearly named assignment and research folders inside each
unit folder.

28. How do I organise my computer?
Clearly named documents inside each assignment folder.
TOP TIP!
Make sure your
full name is in
the title of any
document you
will submit
electronically.

29. Your turn…
1) Go to the ISS Moodle page.
2) Click on ‘Information Skills’
3)Click on ‘Organisation’.
4)Scroll down and try the activities.
5) Click on the ‘Study Smart: Earn the
Badges’ to earn your study skills badges.
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