Take Home Tests and Online Assignments
Leverage Your Learning Style
Once you know how you learn, you can successfully adapt to new teaching styles every semester. Online classes may be a challenge, but knowing how you retain information successfully can make things much easier!
Taking Notes for Online Classes
You will likely have more reading to do and thus, have more notes to take for online courses.

Now is the time to become a expert in this skill!
Note Taking Basics:
  • Scan for important ideas before reading more thoroughly
  • Mark key words and concepts
  • Use abbreviations, shorthand, and symbols
  • Write down questions within the text
  • Be selective about what you write
  • Don't just list every fact you see; write out your conclusions as you synthesize information
  • Take notes by hand or type (whichever works for you!)
  • Draw things out if possible
  • Do you prefer the simple life? 'The Outline'
  • Want to maximize your review time? 'The Cornell'
  • Focused on one specific topic? 'The Mind Map'
  • Practicing your active listening skills? 'The Flow Chart'
  • Would you rather work smarter, not harder? 'Writing on Slides'
  • Are you a visual learner? Love to doodle? 'Bullet Journal'
Set Yourself Up For Success:
  • Review your notes each week to commit the information to long term memory, rather than cramming the night before an exam
  • Stay organized!
  • Label your notes with the date you took them and the class or assignment to which they are connected
  • Discuss what you have read with classmates
  • Prepare and organize your notes so they make sense to you
  • Schedule time to study AND take the exam
  • Clarify the rules from your faculty to take this at home exam
  • Be sure of any guidelines they have for academic integrity
  • Try to prep like it is an in person exam – monitor your stress and try to get good rest the night before!
Successful Group Work For Online Classes
Overwhelming Amount of Assignments?

The best way to manage multiple assignments at once is to get organized by doing something like making a To Do List. You can put it in order of when things are due or based on priority. Either way - write it down! There are a lot of online, FREE sites/apps that can help:

Bonus Suggestion: Citations can be time consuming, but necessary. Try scribble.com to save some time!
Questions? Suggestions? Want to share an opportunity to help LAUNCH students' success?
Email ruth.morris@uconn.edu.