Intro to GED-i - Orientation - Being a Successful Online Student

Let’s look at the criteria for being a successful online learner in more detail.
  

1. Requires setting aside blocks of time several times per week to study.
2. Requires prioritizing tasks in order to complete assignments by due dates.
3. Promotes meeting deadlines without constant reminders.
4. Prompts setting clear goals to work online to complete your GED preparation.

Time management skills

1. Require effective organization of your time.
2. Encourage you to create a schedule and adhere to it.
3. Allow you to work at your own pace within a flexible schedule to meet requirements for completion of lessons and assignments.

Motivation and Determination  

1. Will prompt you to regularly log onto the site.
2. Will lead you to shut off T.V. and avoid procrastination in order to complete lessons.
3. Will have you frequently checking your e-mail as well as your portfolio and calendar in the GED-i Online site.

Technological understanding of computers and knowing how to navigate the Internet

1. Require having a computer at home or available routinely at a place where you feel comfortable.
2. Presume that you know how to turn on the computer, monitor and printer, and use a mouse.
3. Require word processing skills so that you may type essays and communicate with your instructor.
4. Make it easy to reply to feedback and comments from your teacher.
5. Assist you in posting notices on the discussion board or comfortably participating in chat lines with other students or your instructor.
6. Allow you to check out additional resources available online.
7. Require following proper “Netiquette,” accepted rules for Internet usage.

Strong reading and math skills

1. Must be at or above the 9th grade level, as determined by enrollment testing.
2. Are needed to understand the content of the lessons.
3. Are required for using essential critical thinking skills such as comparing and contrasting, understanding cause and effect, as well as determining the main idea and supporting details of a passage.
4. Are required to perform calculations, work through story problems, and compute answers.
5. Are needed to help you seek out answers to some of your questions in the online Student Reference Manual.

Effective writing and communication skills

1. Help you to organize your thoughts in order to respond to prompts.
2. Help you to communicate your thoughts clearly and concisely.
3. Allow you to stay in contact with your instructor.
4. Encourage you to ask for help if you have a technological problem or a question on the content of the lessons.

Do you feel that you have the characteristics needed to be a successful GED-i Online learner?