Record sources, contacts, and deadlines
Create a durable record that lets you return to a changing opportunity without relying on memory.
Evaluating Digital Sources
From Discovery Education. Watch here or open it on YouTube .
During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Record sources, contacts, and deadlines.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a source-and-deadline tracker with at least five entries and two follow-up reminders.What this lesson is really solving.
Create a durable record that lets you return to a changing opportunity without relying on memory. This is lesson 4 because later decisions depend on a source-and-deadline tracker with at least five entries and two follow-up reminders. A source log turns browsing into a small case file with a date and next action. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
A source log turns browsing into a small case file with a date and next action.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
Use one row per claim or opportunity and record the exact URL, publisher, date checked, definition, and location.
- 2
Add the official contact, question, deadline, time zone, and a reminder far enough ahead to act.
- 3
Mark what changed after a later check and preserve the previous source note rather than silently replacing it.
See the standard in context.
Dev saves the program page, update date, admissions email, prerequisite question, and reminder one week before the deadline. The learner saves a source-and-deadline tracker with at least five entries and two follow-up reminders and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.
Inspect before you move on.
- The finished work visibly includes a source-and-deadline tracker with at least five entries and two follow-up reminders.
- You tested the work against this common failure: Saving a vague bookmark without the claim, date, contact, or reason it mattered.
- Another person could verify this mastery standard: You can reconstruct why an option looked useful and what needs to happen next even after the page changes.
Your deliverable
A source-and-deadline tracker with at least five entries and two follow-up reminders.
Watch for this
Saving a vague bookmark without the claim, date, contact, or reason it mattered.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
You can reconstruct why an option looked useful and what needs to happen next even after the page changes.
Quick knowledge check
Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.
This curriculum-aligned check is scored automatically and stored with your account when signed in. It is an objective learning signal, but it has not yet been independently validated as a standardized assessment.
Tools, templates, and references
Pass the knowledge check above first.
Completion unlocks after a score of 2 out of 3. Then confirm that you produced the lesson deliverable.
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