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Coursera: Stay on Track with the Deadlines Calendar Feature!
Editor’s Note: Pamela Fox is Coursera’s Lead Student Team Engineer. Here is her post about a useful new Coursera feature called “Deadline Calendar”! I know it’s a matter of much debate, but I personally love that Coursera classes actually impose schedules and deadlines on students. I have a lot of things I want to get done in life, and if I don’t have a deadline for them, I don’t accomplish 99% of them. There’s always something else that needs to be done first, you know? But I hate the feeling of missing a deadline in a class, especially if I’ve been meeting all the deadlines for a few weeks and been feeling good about my steak of good-student-ness. It’s that sudden, sinking feeling of “Awww, man, why didn’t I remember that an hour ago?” that can throw off your motivation for the rest of the class. So we have been working on ways to make it easier for all of us to remember our deadlines, because…