Student Guide

Creating Your Study Plan

Student Guide

Creating your study plan v6.0 (2017/04/20)

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Student Guide

Creating your study plan v6.0 (2017/04/20)

Contents An introduction to Your Study Plan ............................................................................... 1

What your Study Plan will show ........................................................................................... 1

Instructions for creating your Study Plan ...................................................................... 2 Setting the timeline ............................................................................................................. 2

1. Default setting .................................................................................................................... 2 2. Pre-set options .................................................................................................................... 2 3. Custom setting .................................................................................................................... 3

Inserting holidays and study breaks into your timeline.......................................................... 4 Dual qualification courses .................................................................................................... 4

Study Plan - Sequential............................................................................................................... 4 Study Plan – Parallel ................................................................................................................... 6 Study Plan without assessments ................................................................................................ 7 Study Plan with assessments ..................................................................................................... 7

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An introduction to Your Study Plan Your Study Plan provides you with a step by step guide to your own personalised Study Plan with a breakdown of your course components to help you plan your study throughout your course.

You will receive your official start and end dates when you enroll into your course - these are calculated on the official length of time you are given to finish the course.

What your Study Plan will show

The generated Study Plan will allow you to:

• View the start and end dates of your course/s as well as the status of each unit in the course/s.

• Personalise your start and end dates to suit your schedule. (Note: you cannot extend your end date beyond your enrolled course end date.)

• Include assessments in your Study Plan – i.e. view the assessments and their statuses. (Note: this is optional, by ticking the ‘Show assessments’ tick box.)

Tips for using the Study Plan:

• Units that have been completed (as competent, credit transfer or RPL) will not be included in the timeline for the Study Plan.

• If you are doing a dual or double qualification, you can adjust your Study Plan to schedule to study your courses sequentially or in parallel.

• You can schedule in the time slots that you are you are going to be away or unavailable to undertake your study.

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Instructions for creating your Study Plan

Setting the timeline

Each course is displayed as a timeline allowing you to set the start and end dates. Setting the start and end dates can be done in the following ways:

1) Default setting – by clicking the Generate button 2) Pre-set options – by clicking the pre-set study speed buttons 3) Custom setting – by clicking on the start and end dates and using the date picker

1. Default setting This is the simplest way of generating your Study Plan. This will give you the timeline based on today’s date as a start date and your course’s official end date. Follow the steps below:

1) Click on My Study Plan on the left menu of your My eCampus course home page. 2) Click the Generate button underneath your list of courses. To exclude assessments,

clear the Show assessments check box on the top right. 3) Your Study Plan/s will appear under the Generate button. 4) Print your Study Plan by clicking the Print button next to the Generate button.

2. Pre-set options There are three pre-set study speed buttons giving you the following timeline options:

1. Super star – Complete the course in 50% of the course timeframe. 2. Accelerated – Complete the course in 75% of the course timeframe. 3. Regular – Complete the course within the course timeframe.

Follow the steps below:

1) Click on My Study Plan on the left menu of your My eCampus course home page. 2) Click on your course under the My Study Plan heading. The following will appear:

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3) Click your preferred button under the date sliders, i.e. ‘Super Star’, ‘Accelerated’, or ‘Regular’.

4) Click the Save & Generate button to generate the Study Plan. 5) Print your Study Plan by clicking the Print button next to the Generate button.

3. Custom setting You can customise the start and end dates of your course in the Study Plan by dragging the date slider of the start and end dates, then click the Save & Generate button.

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Inserting holidays and study breaks into your timeline

To include study breaks and holidays in your study plan:

1) Click the View and add away times button found under your list of courses.

2) A box with Click here to add a new away time will appear - click this box. You can start generating away times by inserting a name for your break and selecting ‘From’ and ‘To’ dates.

3) Keep adding the breaks you want to include in your Study Plan. 4) Click the Generate button once completed.

Dual qualification courses

A Study Plan can be generated for each course you are enrolled in.

When you are enrolled in a dual qualification with two courses, you can customise your study method, by either studying both courses at the same time (in parallel) or completing one course before starting the next sequential course.

Study Plan - Sequential To generate a sequential Study Plan, the start date of the second course must be set to the end date of the first course as shown in the screenshot below. This can be done using the date sliders or by typing in the dates.

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Study Plan – Parallel If you would like to complete both courses at the same time, you would adjust the start and end dates for each course so that they overlap. Note the highlighted overlapping unit dates below.

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Examples of Study Plan timelines

Study Plan without assessments

Study Plan with assessments Please note the list of individual assessments will not appear in your study plan for some units.