All learners of Chinese and any other foreign language ask a lot of questions as how to manage homework. It refers to face-to-face lessons as long as to online lessons on English, Chinese, German and other languages.
Skype-Language teachers of Chinese take the liberty to give some tips how to organize your self-study.
How to work with 'old new words'. At the lesson the teacher often gives you supplementary words and phrases that your course book does not contain. In order to improve your vocabulary, you write them down, copy into a separate file and, as a rule, you end up forgetting about them. How to work with such words? Make it a rule to take 2-3 words from this list and make up sentences and dialogues. As soon as you have learnt a new rule, take a look at the list of the 'old new words', choose a word or phrase and make a couple of sentences, using this rule.
How to work with texts and dialogues. To improve you speaking skills you could retell a story from the person of each character. Make up questions to the texts and write all possible answers.
For learners of Chinese. How to work with hieroglyphs. What helps to remember new words? Yesterday you practised a Chinese hieroglyph for 20 times, but today you can't remember what it looks like and how it is spelled. It is typical of the initial stage of language learning. Copying dialogues can help to memorize words. So you learn a dialogue and memorize hieroglyphs.
If you need more tips, you can always ask your teacher!