What is a Typical Online Session?
Online students need to login to each course of several days each week, and especially at the start of each workweek to review the schedule and additional reading assignments.
Here's a typical day for a student in an online course.
- Log into the course
- Read through the News postings to check for updates.
- Go to Content and review the weekly assignment schedule.
- Locate the online lecturers and articles.
- Read the assignment instructions in grading rubric
- Check the due dates for upcoming assignments, quizzes, and tests.
- Complete your readings
- Find and read additional articles from the online library relating to the topics.
- Check your Grades on previous assignments and tests, paying special attention to the feedback comments your instructor is left.
- Complete your current homework and assignments.
- Go to the Discussion forums
- Contribute to the assigned class discussions
- Respond to questions posted by classmates
- Ask the instructor question.
- Schedule time to complete other assignments, to study and review notes, and to take Quizzes and exams.
- Submit your homework assignments via the Dropbox.
- Check your campus e-mail, and reply to any urgent messages.
- Log out of the course site.
Please realize that each instructor may have different expectations, so the activities you will need to complete me very from course to course. Always check the course schedule each time you log into the course to make sure you are aware of all assignments and deadlines.

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