Actually, the planner have changed my life in a totally unexpected way
Before that I was totally disorganized and all on a sudden when I look I see
that I have an assignment due next week and I'm not at all prepared for it
So, when I got the planner, and I was introduced by that during the
orientation day, I have put jot down all my already known assignment due dates
and examinations and every time I have a look at that I know I have a good idea
of what am I supposed to do next week and the weeks after
So now when I look at the calendar
I know like okay how much far ahead do I have the assignments due
and the most important thing to me is that I have put that on the wall
in front of my bed, so every time I wake up in the morning I have a look at that
and I get a very general idea of okay what am I supposed to do in the days ahead
made me much more organized and well prepared before time
So, I found the wall planner really useful as a way of keeping an eye on the big picture
throughout the semester and as a way of getting all of the planning of my
assessments out of my head to free my brain up to focus on the deep work
of actually working on those assessments and giving them my best effort
So, another way the wall planner really helped me was using it for backward planning
of all of my assessments, so when I got all my assessment deadlines
at the start of the semester, I marked them all into my wall planner
then I worked backwards from each of the deadlines to plan out how long I needed
to allow to work on each assessment, so I marked in the date where I needed to
start working on it, when I needed to analyze the task, start my writing plan
and as a rule of thumb I allowed about a week per thousand words of the
assignment for researching and writing and also I allowed a day or two before
deadline submission for revising and drafting and that really helped me to
stay calm and focused especially in the really busy parts of the semester
where there started to be overlapping assessments that I need to be working on in parallel
Another great way that my wall planner helped was I used a color-coding system
for each of my subjects using different colored sticky notes so
not only did that make it really easy to differentiate the different subjects and
and the work that was coming up for each of them
but it also made the wall planner nicer to look at every single day
So it helped me keep using it as as that useful planning tool
So, the Academic Skills planner is a life changer for me
I use it really well especially in conjunction with the
Academic Skills assignment planner that is available on their website
So, putting the two and two together I'm able to put on the wall planner my main
like the submission date of an assignment and all the assignments I have throughout the
semester and then when I'm working on each assignment I can trace it back
you know within the time that I have to plan out key milestones in the process of
creating that, I can plan out my time and balance it really well with other things
that are happening around my life, other subjects submissions that I have
so it works perfectly well and I can manage my time really effectively
I use wall planner for the past two semesters. It was very useful for me.
I have four subjects I mark with the four different colors on my wall planner.
I mark for my assignments, my tutorials, my workshops and during this semester with
the wall planner, I can know when I should stress to my study and when I have
plenty time for have relax, that's why I even put my holiday time I put my
conferences on the wall planner and then I know the wall schedule during my
semester, and after I finish each of the sections
I put done on my wall planner and it was the biggest happiness
like finishing with everything.
So what I do with my wall planner is that
I put the submission deadlines for each assignment
and I give different colors for different subjects
and as the day go along I cross out each day so I know
how much I've progressed throughout the semester
and I also put a summary at the end of my wall planner
for each subject and for each subjects I put
all of the assignments that that subject has
so I know the progress that I made for each subject