Here, I was challenged with solving the age-old time management problem seen among middle and high school students and self-paced college students. It’s not a new idea, but here’s how I pulled it off at Pearson on a shoestring budget.

The student chooses a course, a desired date range to start and complete the course, or provide a start date and preferred number of study-hours per week.

Either way, the calculator will look-up the course’s time-on-task information and produce a schedule for the student, listing each task to complete for the week and the total number of study-hours per week for x number of weeks. It has proven handy for students to gauge how much work there is in a course over a twelve to sixteen week period. This product is used in thousands of courses hosted by Pearson.