Thursday, February 6, 2020

Testing the Hypothesis Part 1

After talking with some other UF students, I noticed that I was not the only one who had trouble keeping up with assignment due dates. Students on the University of Florida campus are unable to easily form a semester calendar that includes all of their assignment due dates and class times onto one calendar app because the resources provided by UF do not interact with each other and filling in this much information is a long process. This would mainly be for students because they are the ones who are trying to balance class times and homework on two different forums, and I am unfamiliar with how professors are expected to organize themselves and what resources they have available to them. While I am only familiar with how UF resources work I imagined other college students across the country might also have this problem. I understand that there are a few students who already take the time to do this on their own, but that is the slim minority and even they might be interested in a faster way of organizing themselves. Taking the time to plug in all of these due dates is a long process that isn't difficult, but something that students don't seem to want to do for themselves. However, this is only useful for people who have at least one class in person, as online classes have no set class time and you already need to be on the classes website to get lectures, but having a set calendar for multiple classes each semester would help them organize when to do lectures and homework. For most of the students I have talked to, they are simply uninterested or don't have the will to sit down for an hour to set a calendar with reminders for when assignments and classes are. Some already take the time to do this, but even they favored the idea of a program that did this for them.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Ethan,
    I understand your dilemma. Canvas has a calendar for your work but sometimes you can still forget, I was a victim to this once and it cost me a B in Biology and I ended up getting A B- simply for missing two minor homework assignments. So I agree with you that we need a program that is like a calendar and that reminds us constantly about assignments that we have due.

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  2. Hi!
    I think this is such a good idea. There have been multiple scenarios where I've missed some small assignment due dates, and I've also had professors that don't utilize the calendar feature on canvas so their due dates are elsewhere. It can get really confusing, especially with other obligations that are not listed on Canvas like you said, and it would be awesome having them all in one place.

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