Setting and reviewing priorities in order to complete an assignment on

time includes making a realistic assessment of which of the following?

Select one or more:

a.

Your own strengths and limitations as they relate to the assignment.

b.

How to write a draft that won't require any editing.

c.

The remaining work and demands of the assignment.

d.

The importance of the other commitments and tasks in your current

schedule.

Question 2

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question
 Question text

As a starting point, for every in-class hour, how much regular study,
reading, and learning time should you plan to include as class
preparation time, every week?

Select one:

a.

A half hour.

b.

4-5 hours.

c.

As much time as is available.

d.

At least 1-2 hours.

Question 3

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

 Flag question

Question text

If I attend most of my classes, study just before exams, and block out
time to work on an assignment starting a few days before it is due, that
should be sufficient school work time to get good grades.

Select one:

True

False

Question 4

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

It is always best to block off the same number of hours each week to
work on your essays, no matter when they are due.
 Select one:

True

False

Question 5

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

What is the 'fifteen minute rule"?

Select one:

a.

A study strategy where you read or study for fifteen minutes, then take
fifteen minutes off.

b.
 An anti-procrastination strategy where you begin your study time with a
short, well-defined task that will take you fifteen minutes or less to
complete.

c.

A study strategy where you focus intensely on one concept or idea for
fifteen minutes to learn it, and then move on to the next concept or idea
for fifteen minutes, and so on.

d.

An anti-procrastination strategy where you allow yourself fifteen minutes

of something enjoyable or distracting (e.g., TV, social media, YouTube,
etc.) before beginning your study session.

Question 6

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

Managing your time effectively can...

Select one or more:

 a.

leave you time for extra-curricular activities and hobbies.

b.

help you work more productively and efficiently.

c.

increase your confidence.

d.

help you feel less stressed throughout the term.

Question 7

Partially correct

Mark 0.50 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

An excellent strategy for success includes:

Select one or more:

a.

Dividing the preparation of the essay into phases, estimating the time
involved for each, and using these estimates to create a plan.

b.

Setting aside uninterrupted time starting a week before the essay is due,
getting started and pushing through to completion regardless of your
other commitments.

c.

Always sticking to the same routine and time commitment for every
essay assigned.

d.

Making a realistic assessment of the demands of the assignment -

including how marks will be assigned to each section, whether your
research could be narrowed somewhat, and what penalties exist for
late submission - so you can prioritize effectively as you approach the
deadline.

"Backwards planning” refers to learning from past mistakes in planning - for

example, reviewing a past situation when you missed a deadline, and altering
your current time management strategies for your next assignment, based
on what you learned from this previous bad experience.

Select one:
 True

False

Question 3

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

It is always best to block off the same number of hours each week to work
on your essays, no matter when they are due.

Select one:

True

False

Question 4

Partially correct

Mark 0.67 out of 1.00

 Flag question

Question text

Which of the following are common factors which lead students to

procrastinate on their assignments?

Select one or more:

a.

Expecting your work to be perfect.

b.

Feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task.

c.

Underestimating the time needed to complete assignments.

d.

Not planning meal times, so you feel hungry or need coffee when you're
about to start work.

Question 5

Partially correct
Mark 0.50 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

An excellent strategy for success includes:

Select one or more:

a.

Dividing the preparation of the essay into phases, estimating the time
involved for each, and using these estimates to create a plan.

b.

Setting aside uninterrupted time starting a week before the essay is due,
getting started and pushing through to completion regardless of your other
commitments.

c.

Making a realistic assessment of the demands of the assignment -

including how marks will be assigned to each section, whether your
research could be narrowed somewhat, and what penalties exist for late
submission - so you can prioritize effectively as you approach the deadline.

d.

Always sticking to the same routine and time commitment for every essay
assigned.
Question 6

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

Managing your time effectively can...

Select one or more:

a.

leave you time for extra-curricular activities and hobbies.

b.

increase your confidence.

c.

help you feel less stressed throughout the term.

d.
 help you work more productively and efficiently.

Question 7

Incorrect

Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

Establishing a date to begin working on your project only after completing

the Assignment Task Checklist and blocking out available times in your
calendar is an example of:

Select one:

a.

Setting priorities.

b.

Backwards planning.

c.

Poor time management. X

 d.

Procrastination.

Week 3

Question 1

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

Amar is in a first-year statistics class. After his instructor introduces a

statistical analysis assignment, a friend in his class tells him that she
has a tight deadline for another course and needs to work on that
assignment. She asks Amar if he will do the analysis and share the
results with her. He shares the results, and both of them submit separate
assignments.

Has Amar committed a breach of academic integrity?

Select one:

Yes. Amar has committed a breach of academic dishonesty by

providing his friend with the results of the statistical analysis.
 No. Amar's instructor knows they're friends so likely assumes that they
collaborate in completing assignments.

No. Amar has not committed a breach of integrity, but his friend has.

Question 2

Partially correct

Mark 0.50 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

Martin really loves his classes in political science, but he has found that
he often receives a lower grade on written assignments because his
grammar and sentence structure are weak. He has seen advertisements
for commercial editing services on campus that guarantee higher
marks.

Select all appropriate responses for how Martin could proceed.

Select one or more:

Martin could send his draft to one of these commercial services to

improve his writing and clean up his grammar; after all, what really
matters is that he’s done the research himself.
 Martin could sign up for workshops on essay writing offered at the
university and book an appointment with the writing centre. Before he
submits his final assignment, Martin could ask a friend to quickly read
through the work to note if there are any obvious grammar or spelling
mistakes.

Martin could consult the SPARK modules to help structure his time
more effectively and learn to develop a strong argument that is well
written. He could also visit his TA during office hours for more
feedback about common mistakes that he can correct to improve his
grades in future assignments.

Question 3

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

Caroline has written a paper critically examining capitalist modes of

production. She has taken a short sentence from a book by Marx and
Engels and used it as shown below.
Original passage from Marx and Caroline’s paper:
Engels:

The way in which As individuals express their life, so they

men produce their are wrote Karl Marx and Friedrich
means of Engels in The German Ideology (7).
subsistence While many of us would agree with this
depends first of all statement as a matter of fact, we often
on the nature of the do not make the association to specific
actual means they modes of production.
find in existence
and have to
reproduce. This
mode of production
must not be
considered simply
as being the
reproduction of the
physical existence
of the individuals.
Rather it is a
definite form of
activity of these
individuals, a
definite form of
expressing their life,
a definite mode of
life on their part. As
individuals express
their life, so they
are. What they are,
therefore, coincides
with their
production, both
with what they
produce and with
how they produce.
The nature of
individuals thus
 depends on the
material conditions
determining their
production.

This original The entry that

passage is from: Caroline placed in
her bibliography is:

Karl Marx and

Friedrich Engels. Karl Marx and
The German Friedrich Engels.
Ideology. The German
International Ideology.
Publishers: New International
York, 1947 (7). Publishers: New
York, 1947.

Has Caroline demonstrated academic integrity?

Select one:

No, because the passage quotes another person's actual words without
using quotation marks.

Yes. The source has been credited appropriately.

 No, because Caroline has falsified information or misrepresented the
authors’ original position, theory, or ideas.

Yes. The authors’ ideas, opinion or theory are used and put into the
student’s words and are appropriately credited.

Question 4

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

You are in a computer science course. The documentation for a new

programming language code is online and the author has given it a CC0
licence, meaning the author has waived their copyright and placed the
work in the public domain for all to use freely and openly.

Should you cite the source or not?

Select one:

Yes. You need to cite the original source of the code.

 No. Since the author has put their work in the public domain, you can
reuse it without providing any acknowledgement.

Question 5

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Flag question

Question text

You are unable to work out the answers for your lab report and the
deadline is fast approaching. To meet the deadline, you take results from
an old lab report you borrowed and modify some of your calculations to
arrive at the correct answer.

Is this considered plagiarism?

Select one:

The calculations are a small fraction of the total lab report. It doesn’t
really matter if you change them to match the successful result.

Since you are copying someone else's work without crediting the
source, you are plagiarizing.