1. Time Management College Success
We will review four tools for managing your time to promote college success, assignment sheets, to-do-lists, term calendars and a weekly schedule. Each of us are unique and have to determine the tools that work best for us. Students often use two of these tools in combination. Keep in mind that each of these tools are available in the Learning Center’s College Skills Zone.

2. Where does the time go?
 Time is a finite commodity. How many hours in a week?
168
What is the ideal number of hours we should get for sleep?
8 X 7 =  112
How many credits is full-time?
12 credits equals 12 hours of class time a week  100
On average, what is that ratio of study time to class time?
You should study 2 hours for every hour spent in class (2:1).
If you’re taking 12 credits, how much time should you set aside for studying?
24  76
Some of you work.
If you have a part-time job - 20 hours a week  56
full time job - 40 hours a week  36
That leaves 36 – 56 hours a week for parenting, meals, getting ready, commuting, hanging out with family and friends., working out, playing music…
Just like money, time can seem to evaporate especially when you are a busy college student.
Unlike money however; time is a finite commodity. No matter what we do, each of us only have 168 hours in a week.
You can go through this a line at a time getting answers to the questions before bringing up the next piece of information. Be sure you are familiar with the answers on the slide even though the answers from the students will vary.

3. Weekly Schedule A weekly schedule will help you…
have a realistic sense of the time you have available for different aspects of your life
spend time on things that bring you closer to your goal
have focused leisure time and focused work or study time without feeling guilty or distracted
have more freedom and control over your time.
reduce stress and procrastination
Finally lets review how to create a weekly schedule. A weekly schedule has many benefits that will help you to be a more effective student.
Go through the list of benefits.

4. Step One: Write in the earliest time you start your day
Weekly Schedule
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
Sat
Sun
5:00
6:00-
7:00
8:00
9:00-
10:00-
11:00-
12:00-
1:00-
2:00-
3:00
4:00-
5:00-
6:00
Step One: Write in the earliest time you start your day
To the latest time you end your day
The first step in creating a weekly schedule is writing in the times into hourly blocks that you will be awake throughout the day.
Begin with the earliest time you will get up during the week and end with the latest time you will go to bed.

5. If they are the same each week
Step Two:
Add your fixed times - activities that stay the same from one week to the next.
Classes
Work hours if they stay the same.
Family time
Other routines
Time
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
7:00
Wake up
Family
8:00
breakfast
travel
9:00
RD 90
RD90
Frisbee
10:00
WR95
WR 95
Church
11:00
12:00
Math
1:00
Lunch
Work Study
Work on
class
2:00
project
3:00
4:00
5:00
Dinner
6:00
Weekly Meeting
Sleep
Regular family time
Classes
Other routines
Work
If they are the same each week
Regular family time
Other routines
Next add all of your fixed times such as classes,
your work schedule if it is the same each week,
family time that you want to be sure you set aside,
and any other regularly set routines.
Have a non-routine work schedule? Duplicate the schedule for each week of the quarter.

6. Shade the time blocks you have available for study.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
7:00
Family
8:00
breakfast
9:00
RD 90
RD90
Frisbee
10:00
WR 95
WR95
Church
11:00
12:00
Math
1:00
Lunch
Work Study
Work on
class
2:00
project
3:00
4:00
5:00
Dinner
6:00
Weekly Meeting
Review
Sleep
Step Three:
Shade the time blocks you have available for study.
Shade all of the time you have left for studying.
If you have a non-routine schedule including your work, duplicate your schedule for each week of the quarter before adding your work and study time. That way you can add your study time each week after you have your work schedule.

7. Step Four: Add work hours (if they are non-routine)
Time
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
7:00
WR95
Study
Family
8:00
breakfast
9:00
RD 90
RD90
Frisbee
10:00
WR 95
Church
11:00
Math
Math Study
12:00
Math Study
1:00
Lunch
Work Study
LUNCH
Work on
class
2:00
WR95 Study
project
3:00
4:00
5:00
Dinner
6:00
Study/Review
Weekly Meeting
RD90 Review
Sleep
Step Four:
Add work hours
(if they are non-routine)
Add your study times (Remember the 2:1 study ratio.)
Shade all of the time you have left for studying.
If you have a non-routine schedule including your work, duplicate your schedule for each week of the quarter before adding your work and study time. That way you can add your study time each week after you have your work schedule.

8. Time Management Guidelines, Support, and Forms
are available in the College Skills Zone