u/vikkirose

Does anyone have any useful tips for working group projects for online students. I’ll admit I’m pretty frustrated that group projects are still a thing in these classes when half of the point of going online was that it’s supposed to be asynchronous, meaning I can login and get it done whenever. I work full-time and odd hours, there’s a ton of reading in this class and the assignments take even longer than the reading. My last class also had group projects, some of us were on the West Coast and some of us were on the East Coast, but there was only four of us so we had to be in one group. Half the group didn’t participate really, and we turned in an unfinished final project because I just did not have time to do more than the work I agreed to do.

How can we work around this? Has anyone had success with the online group projects? Is it just luck of the draw on who’s in your group? We don’t have in person classes and we don’t have each other’s phone numbers so it’s not like I can chase people down for their part of the project, and inevitably someone ends up doing more than everyone else just because that’s the nature of compiling online work, which also feels pretty unfair

Sorry, this turned into half a rant, but I really am seeking best practices if anyone has any. Thank you.

Hello. I am a student that’s gone back to school in my 30s. I’m about to start my last semester, but I could really use some financial aid. I’ve been applying for scholarships since I went back, but I haven’t had any luck. A lot of scholarships for people my age are for mothers, veterans, grad school or people with special circumstances, and don’t cover people like me who just decided it was time to go back and get my bachelors. A lot of the common scholarships are, of course, directed at high school seniors or just straight up have age limits.

If anyone has any resources that could point me towards some scholarships, I may actively qualify for outside of the websites that first come up when you google scholarships or scholarships over 30, I would appreciate it.