
Keep Writing is full of resources to help you meet the new demands of writing for your virutal courses. These resources were compiled by the student staff of the Writing Center. They listed struggles they and their peers have experienced, and this page is their gesture toward a shared persistence.
Important Campus Resources
Communicating and Emailing Resources
Calendaring and Time Management Resources
Space Management Resources
Wellness and Mindfulness Resources
For those interested in knowing they are not alone, you can also see the shared student challenges that prompted this page. If you have challenges to include or resources to share, please send them to writing@csusm.edu.
They Say/I Say provides good templates that helps with finding the academic vocabulary and phrases to introduce your thoughts and the thoughts of others.
Your campus Google account allows you to create, share, and edit multiple calendars with others.
There are many other calendar apps available for collaborative scheduling
Setting up timers to alternate between fun tasks and school tasks can help allot time for productivity and leisure.
Remember the Milk allows you to make to-do lists and get reminded via emails, text, IM, Twitter, and mobile notifications. It syncs with other devices and organizes priorities, due dates, repeats, lists.
Evernote helps you input typed notes or scan written notes. Add to-dos, photos, images, web pages, etc. Syncs with other devices and you can organize, and share notes the way you want.
Trello can be used to organize “cards” into lists. The cards can be tasks, notes, shared files.
myHomework Student Planner lets you easily track your classes, homework, tests, and projects. If your teacher uses Teachers.io, you can join their class and automatically get their assignments and updates in your planner.
Ambient sounds and white noise can help drown out distracting noises. Consider websites that offer free sound generators.
The Keep Writing resources were gathered and prompted by listing out the shared struggles with shifting to alternative modes of learning during the events of COVID-19. Here are those challenges: