Welcome to the Success Toolbox
This is a tailored resource for current UT San Antonio Online students. Find essential tips and tools to excel in your online courses and navigate the digital learning landscape with confidence.
Resources
- Tutoring Services: You can schedule an appointment to meet with the Tomás Rivera Tutoring Center on a walk-in basis for all subjects, including Biology, Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science. They even provide some after-hours appointments if you can’t make it during their posted hours.
- TutorMe: TutorMe is a tutoring service tool available to the UT San Antonio community. TutorMe can be accessed online 24/7.
- Writing Center: UT San Antonio’s Writing Center offers online tutoring 7 days a week. You can learn how to make and attend an online tutoring appointment on this video.
- Online Library Services: UT San Antonio’s library offers a wealth of online resources, including access to digital textbooks, academic journals, and more. Librarians are also available via chat to help you find the perfect resources or point you in the right direction. Online students also have their own dedicated librarian!
- Career Center: The UT San Antonio Career Center offers you access to multiple services:
- Handshake– Connect with resources, schedule appointments, and find events and jobs
- Career Explorer – Take the Career Explorer Assessment
- VMock – Receive instantaneous feedback on your resume
- CareerShift – Find job opportunities from across the nation
- Interview Stream – Practice your interview skills from the comfort of your home.
- Software and Technology: As a UT San Antonio Online student, you will have access to many free software tools, including Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office 365.
- Digital Learning: The Digital Learning team provides you with the 24/7 support you may need as you take courses with UT San Antonio Online.
- Tech Café: Tech Café provides UT San Antonio students, faculty, and staff with services like network and system access, software application and hardware support, and many more! If you run into any technical issues, make sure to contact them at 210-458-5555 or email them at [email protected].
- LinkedIn Learning: This is a typically paid service that is free for all UT San Antonio students. LinkedIn Learning provides a variety of different certificates to add to your LinkedIn profile.
- Microcredentials: As a UT San Antonio Online student, you can quickly expand your skillset with UT San Antonio’s microcredentials. These streamlined educational experiences offer a quick path to acquiring new competencies recognized by a certificate or badge that carries weight in the job market and academia.
Time Management
We know that being a student is a big time commitment, especially when it comes to trying to balance your schoolwork with anything else you have going on in your life.
There are some tips below that will help you plan out your time this semester. Here are a few important things to keep in mind:
Study Time
We recommend allowing 3 hours of study time per 1 credit hour you’re registered for. So, if you’re registered for 12 credit hours, that would be 36 hours of study time.
Course Types
When you register for classes, you’ll want to make note of the course length. Different courses are offered in different lengths:
- Fall and Spring Terms: 16-week courses and 8-week courses
- Summer Terms: 3-week, 4-week, 5-week, 8-week, and 10-week courses
You can mix-and-match course lengths based on availability. For example, if you wish to take two classes in the Fall semester, you might choose to take two 16-week courses, or you might choose to take one class during the 1st 8-week term and one class during the 2nd 8-week term.
Visit our registration web page and click on the “Term Options” accordion links to see a visual breakdown of all of the course length options.
Time Management Calculator
This tool will help you organize your time between different aspects and tasks from your daily life.
Mental Health Resources
If you or someone you know needs help now, call 911. Notify the operator there is a mental health emergency and ask for trained officers in crisis intervention. Here are more free mental health resources available to everyone:
TimelyCare, a Texas-based provider of virtual health and well-being resources in higher education, is available to ALL UT San Antonio Students, including 100% online students through their mobile app (available on iPhone and Android)
The TimelyCare app provides students with access to 24/7 virtual health and well-being support. Services offered through the new program include:
- On-demand mental health and emotional support
- Scheduled mental health counseling sessions
- Health coaching
- Psychiatry services (by referral)
- Guided self-care content
- Access to free or reduced-cost community resources
If you’re in crisis and need to talk to someone, the Crisis Text Line is available 24/7 via Text and WhatsApp.
Text HOME to 741741.
Visit the Crisis Text Line WebsiteOpen Counseling is a website that provides a list of the free telephone counseling hotlines and warm lines in the United States including:
- Suicide and Crisis Lines
- Alcohol and Substance Abuse
- Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Eating Disorders
- Grief Support
- LGBTQ Hotlines
- Mental Health Conditions and Family Support
- Sexual Health and Pregnancy
- Specific Disorders
- State Crisis Lines
- State Warm Lines
- Trauma Survivors
- Youth and Parenting
The NAMI HelpLine is a free, nationwide peer support service providing information, resource referrals, and support to individuals living with a mental health condition(s), as well as families and caregivers.
You can contact them Monday through Friday from 9 am – 9 pm CST
800-950-NAMI (6264) | [email protected]
The Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24/7 via chat on their website or by calling 988.
Visit the Suicide Prevention Lifeline WebsiteAdditional Free Resources for Online Students
In addition to the free resources UT San Antonio Online offers its students, here are some other great free tools that anyone can use!
- Coursera | Coursera is a free online resource where students can access courses in subjects ranging from computer science to biology to politics. They offer over 5,000 courses, as well as certificates, to help you in your career journey. They also collaborate with companies like Google and IBM. Those certificates will look great on your resume!
- Grammarly | Grammarly offers free grammar, plagiarism, and citation resources. Essay and general writing checkers will scan documents and text for errors and suggest edits, and the free citation generator helps students write APA, MLA, or Chicago citations for many sources including books, journal articles, and websites for both full citations and in-text citations.
- Khan Academy | Khan Academy is similar to Coursera, and it provides resources like practice exercises and videos to help you get a better grasp on subjects ranging from mathematics to computer science. Subjects are laid out like lesson plans and include practice problems and quizzes so you can test your knowledge as you go.
- freeCodeCamp | freeCodeCamp is a free resource that provides courses for you to learn how to code for free. They provide certificates that focus on a variety of coding-related subjects like JavaScript, Python, Front End Development, and Data Visualization. They also offer free coding exercises to help you prepare for job interviews where they might be requested.