Planning your work and managing your time
Completing assignments successfully requires:
- understanding the task
- breaking it down into stages
- planning thoroughly, and
- responding to feedback.
Take charge of your own academic development. As you progress through your studies, you should develop your skills and process of applying your lecturers- feedback from previous work in your planning for new assignments.
As a university student, you are expected to use your initiative and become an independent learner.
You will need to:
- manage multiple commitments and deadlines
- motivate yourself, and
- plan ahead.
Everyone works differently, so it is essential that you identify your own effective ways of working. Use self-development tools to help you develop your working processes and manage your time.
These skills are fundamental for gaining responsibility and project management, and are an important reason why employers look for graduates.
Please watch our Youtube video which offers tips on time management: https://youtu.be/mO71JoLXy38?si=sJgUCkQV1vNJrYoU
We have 2 types of support available:
- Planning and time management self-development resources
- 1 to 1 or small group support.
Skills Guides - self-development resources page
Our Skills Guides resources are designed to support your development in a self-guided way. This means you can access support resources wherever you are, whenever you need. We have resources to support you with:
- Assignment building
- Getting started with writing
- Planning reading
- Time management
- Staying focused
- Goal setting
- Starting tasks and making progress, and
- Weekly and semester calendars.
Access Study Success Skills Guides
1 to 1 or small group support
Need 1 to 1 or small group support to develop your assignment planning and time management skills?
Focus and Forward
Visit our weekly Focus and Forward Planning Hub on the York campus or online for access to a focused space to plan your week ahead:
York and London campus students
Our Study Development Tutors can help you:
- grow your confidence
- develop new and existing skills, and
- set you on a path to success with your planning and time management.
You can book an in-person tutorial on the York campus or an online tutorial from the York or London campus:
Book a 1 to 1 learning tutorial with a Study Development Tutor
If you are an international student on the York campus, you can also book a tutorial with an International Programmes Tutor:
Book a 1 to 1 learning tutorial with an International Programmes Tutor