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We understand the transition to distance learning can be a challenge. Below are a few tips and resources to help you be successful in your online and remote summer classes.

Time and place: treat online classes like any other class

• Plan to work on your class according to a set schedule (e.g., MWF 9:00 am-11:30 am). Consider maintaining a similar schedule to the spring schedule you already established.
• Put all deadlines for the semester in your calendar. This is always a good practice, but may be more useful now that you don’t have an instructor offering the normal in-person prompts.
• Have a designated place where you work on your class (e.g., specific rooms in your home, a comfortable outdoor space, anywhere that is noise and distraction-free)
• Get dressed like you would to go to class
• Try not to work on the class too late at night
• Never work on your course work in bed
• Remember that specific dates/times for assignment deadlines are all in Mountain Time. You can so your assignment due dates will be accurate regardless of where you are in the world.
• Seek external accountability. Set up regular check-ins with academic coach, advisor, tutor, friend, parent to celebrate your successes and help you meet your deadlines.

Continue to utilize resources available on campus

• Talk to your instructor
  • All instructors are encouraged to have virtual office hours.
• The Writing Center and the Online Composition Hub provide online writing support.
• Create virtual study groups
  •  and are great resources.
• Reach out to your advisor
  • Advisors are still available remotely during this time.
• Use Disability Services accommodations
  • Talk to Disability Services about how your accommodations apply in this new format.
  • Keep lines of communication open with faculty.
• Utilize Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS)
  • 303-492-2277 (24/7 support)
• Take advantage of tutoring
  • If you have already established a tutoring relationship, ask if your tutor will work with you via .
  • Consider increasing your contact for more regular check-ins.
  • If you are enrolled in an online Continuing Education course, free tutoring is available via Thinking Storm. Look for a link embedded in your Canvas course.