TESU Capstone - question on due dates

[Merlin]

Great, thank you all! It's not so much starting early as it is just trying to schedule my time in advance, because this is my first actual course through TESU and I don't know what to expect. I want to make sure I'm planning ahead with other life obligations over the next few months and allowing enough study time. My idea was to figure out the due dates so I can mark them all on my calendar. I will start reviewing my book though and taking notes so I can get a head start on portions of the work.

Well if you just need a rough calendar, the following is the schedule when I took the course. Our schedule was modified to work around some holidays, but you can assume that yours will be similar...

Week 1: Read Chapters 1-2, Forum intro due, Case Study 1 due
Week 2: Read Chapter 3, Discussion 1 posts & comments due, Case study 2 due
Week 3: Read Chapter 4, Discussion 2 posts & comments due
Week 4: Read Chapter 5, Discussion 3 posts & comments due, Case study 3 due
Week 5: Read Chapter 6, Discussion 4 posts & comments due, Case study 4 due
Week 6: Read Chapter 7, Discussion 5 posts & comments due
Week 7: Read Chapter 8, Discussion 6 posts due, Midterm exam
Week 8: No readings, Discussion 6 comments due, Discussion 7 posts & comments due, Case study 5 due
Week 9: Read Chapter 9, Discussion 8 posts & comments due
Week 10: No readings, Discussion 9 posts & comments due, ETS proficiency assessment due, Case study 6 due
Week 11: Read Chapter 10-11, Discussion 10 posts & comments due
Week 12: Read Chapter 12, Discussion 11 posts & comments due, Case study 7 due, Final project due

Obviously, if you read the textbook early and take good notes, you can avoid having to do it on the schedule they suggest. It will help quite a bit since those chapters are pretty long.

The discussion posts are mainly answering questions based on the reading assigned that week and engaging in conversations with your fellow students by commenting on their posts.

Each case study assignment just requires reading through the case study and writing a paper about it that covers 2-3 prompts. These took me about 2-3 days to complete.

The final paper is a monster, so to be safe, you should plan to start on that right after you complete the midterm.