Semester Countdown: Motivate Your Student with Time Estimates
Photo by Yogendra Singh on Unsplash Ah, that magical time of the year. The time your inbox overflows with help requests. The time when students show up to office hours. I'm talking, of course, about the end-of-the-semester push, when students you've never even seen in class before show up on your office doorstep. Yes, it's a hectic time, but I enjoy the hell out of it. Not only do I get to see how far students have come over the semester, I actually get to see them! This has become especially precious now that I teach my undergraduate courses asynchronously online. Students, though, are nerves all over, worried about passing their classes. I teach a disproportionate number of graduating seniors, so they're even more on edge than everyone else, paranoid that some little thing might keep them from their graduation plans. In short, they're desperate for any guidance that will keep them from having to repeat my course or, worse, move their graduation date. The heart
