Guidance and help
Estimate workload
Useful tools for estimating workloads and adjusting your plans accordingly.
With Maha Bali
Educator prep: None
Student prep: None
Synchronous or Asynchronous
No tech needed
Duration: 5-30 mins
Activity purpose
Help faculty and students estimate workload.
Useful for
Faculty can use it to estimate the workload for their students as they design their courses, and how they might adjust their plans accordingly.
Students can use it to look at their workload in different courses and see what takes more of their time, etc.
Preparation
Look at a syllabus and list of activities.
Instructions
Go through the categories in this workload estimator and see if this is what you were aiming for, for the week or semester and decide if you need to make adjustments.
Duration
It could take 5 minutes or longer, depending how much you decide to adjust.
Adaptations and examples
Groups of faculty can do this, or can do it with students to see if their version of workload estimation aligns with students.
Technical requirements
Web browser.
Useful resources
WFU Workload estimator https://cat.wfu.edu/resources/tools/estimator2/
Rice University workload estimator: https://cte.rice.edu/workload
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