Assignment 2: Making Time to Achieve Your Goals

CIS101 - Navigating a Digital World

Assignment 2: Making Time to Achieve Your Goals Due: Week 7 Points: 120

Skill(s) Being Assessed: Technology, Productivity

What to submit/deliverables: Word document downloaded from Chapter 7 of the webtext (submitted in Blackboard - Week 7). Note: You will need to finish all assignment templates in Chapter 7 of the webtext before you are able to download your complete assignment.

What is the value of doing this assignment? Students often have busy lives, with many goals to accomplish, responsibilities to juggle, and tasks to complete each day. Organizing and planning your time makes a big difference in being productive and meeting deadlines. Using organization strategies and digital tools, such as online calendars, allows you to access your schedule and make changes easily—no matter where you are!

Your goal for this assignment is to: Use digital tools and techniques to effectively balance timelines and priorities.

Steps to complete: In Week 7, complete and submit your assignment in Blackboard using the following steps:

Part 1 – Organize: You will complete the following steps using the instructions in your webtext, Section 7.6: Assignment: Assignment 2 Part 1 – Organize.

● Step 1: Time Management Calculator. ● Step 2: Task List. ● Step 3: Time Estimates.

Part 2 – Plan: You will complete the following steps using the instructions in your webtext, Section 7.7 Assignment: Assignment 2 Part 2 – Plan.

● Step 1: Prioritize Your Tasks. ● Step 2: Organize and Upload Your Calendar. (Note: You will upload your calendar

screenshot to the webtext, Section 7.7.) ● Step 3: Download your completed assignment from Section 7.7 of the webtext.

○ You must finish all assignment templates (Chapter 7) before you are able to download your complete assignment.

○ Your assignment download from the webtext will be a Word document—available after you complete the last template for Assignment 2 in the webtext.

Part 3: Navigate to Blackboard (Week 7 - SUBMIT section), upload your Word document, and submit your assignment.

Grading for this assignment will be based on the following rubric:

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Points: 120 Assignment 2: Making Time to Achieve Your Goals

Criteria Unacceptable Below 60% F

Needs Improvement

65% D Satisfactory

75% C Competent

85% B Exemplary

100% A 1. Organize – Time Management Calculator.

Provide the total time available after accounting for sleep, work, etc. 

Weight: 10%

Did not submit a response or submitted so little work that no credit can be given.

N/A N/A N/A Provides the total time available after accounting for sleep, work, etc.

2. Organize – Task List.

List 5 tasks that you need to accomplish next week not related to regular everyday tasks such as sleep, work, etc.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit a response or submitted so little work that no credit can be given.

Lists 5 tasks that you need to accomplish next week, but 3 or more tasks included are related to a regular everyday task such as sleep, work, etc.

Lists 5 tasks that you need to accomplish next week, but 2 tasks included are related to a regular everyday task such as sleep, work, etc.

Lists 5 tasks that you need to accomplish next week, but 1 task included is related to a regular everyday task such as sleep, work, etc.

Lists 5 tasks that you need to accomplish next week not related to regular everyday tasks such as sleep, work, etc.

3. Organize – Time Estimates.

Provide estimates for the time needed to complete each task and explain how time estimates were determined.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit a response or submitted so little work that no credit can be given.

Provides unrealistic estimates for the time needed to complete each task and does not explain how estimates were determined.

Provides estimates for the time needed to complete each task, but 3–4 of the estimates are unrealistic. Explains how time estimates were determined.

Provides estimates for the time needed to complete each task, but 1–2 of the estimates are unrealistic. Explains how time estimates were determined.

Provides realistic estimates for the time needed to complete each task and explains how time estimates were determined.

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4. Plan – Prioritize Your Tasks.

Explain tasks (based on deadlines, importance, and difficulty level).

Weight: 10%

Did not submit a response or submitted so little work that no credit can be given.

Provides a response, but the connection between tasks and prioritization approach is unclear or unrelated.

Explains tasks (based on deadlines, importance, or difficulty), but 3–4 details are missing.

Explains tasks (based on deadlines, importance, or difficulty), but 1–2 details are missing.

Explains tasks (based on deadlines, importance, and difficulty level).

5. Plan – Prioritize Your Tasks.

Select an approach for prioritizing tasks.

Weight: 5%

Did not submit a response or submitted so little work that no credit can be given.

N/A N/A N/A Selects an appropriate approach for prioritizing tasks.

6. Plan – Prioritize Your Tasks.

Reorder tasks and provide valid reasoning for the chosen prioritization approach.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit a response or submitted so little work that no credit can be given.

Provides a response, but the connection between tasks and prioritization approach is unclear or unrelated.

Correctly reorders tasks and provides reasoning for the chosen prioritization approach, but 3–4 details are missing.

Correctly reorders tasks and provides reasoning for the chosen prioritization approach, but 1–2 details are missing.

Correctly reorders tasks and provides valid reasoning for the chosen prioritization approach.

7. Plan – Organize and Upload Your Calendar.

Calendar reflects your prioritized tasks from your task list with correct start and end times blocked for each task.

Weight: 35%

Did not include your calendar screenshot.

Provides a screenshot of the calendar, but it cannot be read.

Provides a screenshot of the calendar, but not all 5 items are visible and correctly timeblocked.

Provides a screenshot of the calendar, but 1–2 items are not visible and not correctly timeblocked.

Provides a clear screenshot with all 5 items on the list and all items are timeblocked correctly.

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8. Appropriate grammar, spelling, and capitalization.

Weight: 5%

There are more than 8 errors present.

There are 7–8 errors present.

There are 5–6 errors present.

There are 3–4 errors present.

There are 0–2 errors present.

Reminder: You must download your work from Section 7.7 of the webtext and upload it to Blackboard in the Week 7 SUBMIT section.