Every once in a while a website comes a long that we simply have to visit. The School Calendar Online website is one of them. It allows a student to create and maintain their own calendar and make notes of important events and assignments. This is a great way to keep track of your studies.
Features
Online Calendar
If you are looking for an online calendar, this is it. Its interface is nice as well as the very user friendly navigation system. You can easily change between months and get a good glimpse of all your activities.
Add Courses
You begin by adding a new course. You may add as many courses as you’d like. Once you’ve added a course you can then assign different tasks to each respective course. There’s a nice function that allows you to add multiple courses at a time, I prefer to use it as it saves me a lot of time.
Adding Tasks
You can add new tasks by using the top menu or by simply clicking on a date. Tasks can be anything from assignments, exams, upcoming seminars or any other type of event that you feel should be included in your calendar. As I said earlier, the great thing with this tool is that you can assign each task to a course and through doing so become much more organized.
Priorities
Another great feature with this site is the ability to set priorities to each of your tasks. You can choose between low, intermediate or high. The colors on the calendar will change depending on the importance of the tasks in which red marks the highly important tasks, yellow the intermediate and green those of less importance. This is really helpful to differentiate between what is important and what can wait.
View List of Tasks
This page lists all your current tasks, a nice and nifty way of getting a good overview of all the things to come.
Notify Your Friends/Classmates
You can add your e-mail contacts and then choose to notify your friends of an upcoming event. Great way too keep fellow classmates informed on shared projects.
Download eBooks
You may be familiar with our premium eBook entitled The Study Guide PRO as well as the bonus report How To Concentrate Before It’s Too late. If you sign up as an advanced user, you’ll get both of these eBooks included with your membership.
Look Inside
Below you’ll find some images illustrating some of the features mentioned above.
The Dashboard
An overview of the online calendar.
Add Tasks
The menu for adding new tasks.
View List of Tasks
This lets you view all the current tasks at hand.
Viewing Task Details
This windows is opened once you click on an individual entry.
Download eBooks
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In this post we’ll discuss one of the most important tools of productivity, the infamous to do list. I’ll also include a printable template for a to do list which can be downloaded by all premium members. Be sure to read the entire post as well as watch the short tutorial video to get the most benefit.
Before we can start however, we need to define the term to do list.
What’s a To Do List?
A to do list, also called task list is a simple way of organizing the things you need to get done. Most of us have some experience with writing to do lists, however few people have actually thought about how to use them in an efficient manner, utilizing its full potential. In this post we’ll cover the basics of to do lists as well as offer some deeper insights.
What you’ll need
Paper
A piece of paper, simple and affordable. I recommend you to download the to do list template provided in this post, it will save you the time and energy of doing it yourself.
A pen/pencil
It’s been around for thousands of years and still as good as always. I personally would recommend that you use a regular pencil for these purposes. That way you’ll be able to erase, edit and add new entries as you go.
Objectives
A clear idea of the things needed to be planned for. A to do list is no good if it’s only partial. If you want your to do list to be as effective as possible you’ll need to first have a very clear picture of the things that you need to have done and at what date they need to be finished. Also, you’ll need to know the scope of the project, is it small, medium or large? When is the deadline, what happens if the deadline is not met? These are important parameters that have to be taken into consideration before you can write everything down.
Further Tips
Step by Step
Don’t feel overwhelmed with all the things ahead of you. Remember the old Chinese proverb that says; “A journey of 10,000 miles starts with one step.
Be like a Train
The train keeps on moving, each day and every hour you see it travel to its destinations. Be sure to get into the habit of finishing your tasks, anyone with a hand can write them down.
Incentives
If you’re having a difficulty in getting your tasks done maybe it could be wise to start offering yourself incentives. You could for instance say; if I finish task “x” and “y” you will get “z”.
Break it up
If the tasks are too large in scope, break them up into smaller easier tasks.
See the larger picture
There’s a famous parable of two construction workers, both engaged in building the same wall but with different mindsets. When asked about what they are doing the first one says; “I am building a stone wall”. The other however answers “I am building a hospital”. You need to remind yourself of you why are doing these tasks to begin with. Are you learning Laplace Transforms or are you becoming an engineer. The same holds true for any educational or profession.
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