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Top 10 tips to stay successful and sane while learning online

Meeting with your instructors in online office hours or by request is a great way to make sure you’re retaining material and staying connected. Even if you’re not sure they have availability, it never hurts to ask! Source: Photo from Julia M. Cameron at https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-writing-on-notebook-4144923/.

Now that classes at UNC are online through the summer, it’s time to move from surviving to thriving in this new setting.

If you’re taking advantage of the all-online UNC Summer School course catalogue to knock out a few prerequisites, folks in the UNC community who are no stranger to online learning a few tips to share to master this transition and come out of this summer with strong grades and a good learning experience, too.

“There’s a big difference between our current emergency situation and how online is normally,” said Paul Wolff, instructional design manager for the Carolina Office of Online Learning (COOL). “But there’s still a lot students can do to make this easier.”