BIO105 Problems

[kidneysmasher]

Did anyone else take BIO105 and find the professor knit-picky and does not follow the rubric?

My wife completed 8 classes this term and BIO105 has taken the full eight weeks. She is literally on her 7th iteration of her milestone 2, but the professor has a very specific vision of what a graph looks like, but can not clearly write what that is. I've never seen my wife get mad, frustrated, or rude with a professor. This one has pushed her over the edge. 

For thought the last day of class is tomorrow and she can't submit her final until this last milestone is affirmed.

Anyone else take this class and have problems?

[LevelUP]

Did anyone else take BIO105 and find the professor knit-picky and does not follow the rubric?

My wife completed 8 classes this term and BIO105 has taken the full eight weeks. She is literally on her 7th iteration of her milestone 2, but the professor has a very specific vision of what a graph looks like, but can not clearly write what that is. I've never seen my wife get mad, frustrated, or rude with a professor. This one has pushed her over the edge. 

For thought the last day of class is tomorrow and she can't submit her final until this last milestone is affirmed.

Anyone else take this class and have problems?

BIO 105 is like 10 classes in once... Take a lab class somewhere else if you can find an easier one.

good grief.

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...tes?page=4

(This is the same guy that did EVERY SINGLE Sophia course just for the heck of it.)
(This is the same guy that would yawn with boredom if assigned a 200 page writing assignement)
(When ashir starts complaing, you can forget all the steps and move directly to DEFCON-1)

Nobody else has had problems with this course because NOBODY has taken this course at UMPI after Ashir. Lol.

We do a lot of hand-holding here at DF, and when we say take this course here, we MEAN to take this course here, as the other option could be up to 10x as hard. 

All colleges contain at least a few landmines, and your wife stepped on the biggest landmine they got at UMPI and had her leg blow off. After that, she continues to try to hop on one leg to get to the rest of the minefield, which, little does she know, is 100 miles long.

DROP THE COURSE

TAKE THE COURSE AT STUDY.COM

I understand this will mean battling the logical fallacy called sunk cost fallacy. 

If you have any more questions, refer to my hat.

[Jennr2z]

Did anyone else take BIO105 and find the professor knit-picky and does not follow the rubric?

My wife completed 8 classes this term and BIO105 has taken the full eight weeks. She is literally on her 7th iteration of her milestone 2, but the professor has a very specific vision of what a graph looks like, but can not clearly write what that is. I've never seen my wife get mad, frustrated, or rude with a professor. This one has pushed her over the edge. 

For thought the last day of class is tomorrow and she can't submit her final until this last milestone is affirmed.

Anyone else take this class and have problems?

Unfortunately this is a course that is highly recommended to NOT take at UMPI. She will probably need to forget it and take her science with lab course thru Study.com

[kidneysmasher]

Did anyone else take BIO105 and find the professor knit-picky and does not follow the rubric?

My wife completed 8 classes this term and BIO105 has taken the full eight weeks. She is literally on her 7th iteration of her milestone 2, but the professor has a very specific vision of what a graph looks like, but can not clearly write what that is. I've never seen my wife get mad, frustrated, or rude with a professor. This one has pushed her over the edge. 

For thought the last day of class is tomorrow and she can't submit her final until this last milestone is affirmed.

Anyone else take this class and have problems?

BIO 105 is like 10 classes in once... Take a lab class somewhere else if you can find an easier one.

good grief.

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...tes?page=4

(This is the same guy that did EVERY SINGLE Sophia course just for the heck of it.)
(This is the same guy that would yawn with boredom if assigned a 200 page writing assignement)
(When ashir starts complaing, you can forget all the steps and move directly to DEFCON-1)

Nobody else has had problems with this course because NOBODY has taken this course at UMPI after Ashir. Lol.

We do a lot of hand-holding here at DF, and when we say take this course here, we MEAN to take this course here, as the other option could be up to 10x as hard. 

All colleges contain at least a few landmines, and your wife stepped on the biggest landmine they got at UMPI and had her leg blow off. After that, she continues to try to hop on one leg to get to the rest of the minefield, which, little does she know, is 100 miles long.

DROP THE COURSE

TAKE THE COURSE AT STUDY.COM

I understand this will mean battling the logical fallacy called sunk cost fallacy. 

If you have any more questions, refer to my hat.

I guess we should have done some more research. The problem is she has been affirmed on the other 5 milestones and her final is complete, just needs to be turned in. She sent an email to Cody and all he said was due the course survey. Lot of help he was. I guess if the instructor doesn't affirm it she'll faill it because of a graph that had zero instructions or isn't even in the rubric as a requirements.  I guess that's what happens when you take online courses in a small Northern Maine school with adjunct faculty as a part-time gig. 

I'll have her check out the study.com as a back-up

[LevelUP]

I guess we should have done some more research. The problem is she has been affirmed on the other 5 milestones and her final is complete, just needs to be turned in. She sent an email to Cody and all he said was due the course survey. Lot of help he was. I guess if the instructor doesn't affirm it she'll faill it because of a graph that had zero instructions or isn't even in the rubric as a requirements.  I guess that's what happens when you take online courses in a small Northern Maine school with adjunct faculty as a part-time gig. 

I'll have her check out the study.com as a back-up

That is the one bad thing about UMPI is that you can't just continue where you left off in the next session instead of giving an automatic F if you don't finish. 

With PUG you can continue where you left off. 

WGU, you can continue where you left off also. 

You will need to find out the exact day/time you can drop the course to avoid the F grade and hope you can submit the final paper before time runs out. Otherwise, your only option is to try and drop the course. 

You are down to the wire. Gl. 

[FastTrackDegree]

Pick an other school? 

[bjcheung77]

Decide quickly. There's a reason the BIO105 was not recommended in the WIKI and instead BIO101L was recommended at Study.com, I would really look into your options and see if "sticking it out" at UMPI would be faster or taking the course at Study.com be better. You should get your other courses done if you can and then continue working on the BIO105 if you're sticking with UMPI for that course.

[kidneysmasher]

Decide quickly. There's a reason the BIO105 was not recommended in the WIKI and instead BIO101L was recommended at Study.com, I would really look into your options and see if "sticking it out" at UMPI would be faster or taking the course at Study.com be better.  You should get your other courses done if you can and then continue working on the BIO105 if you're sticking with UMPI for that course.

My wife corrected and sent it for seventh time this morning and the professor just wrote back that it still needs corrections, but they are impossible. If the bar graph is representing values from 212-252 then it won't be represented correctly when the y-axis is limited to 0-60...WTF

My wife is probably going to be kicked out. She just posted back a pretty scathing post to the professor and nasty e-mail to Jessica and Cody.

The last day of class is tomorrow at midnight. So probably too late to drop it. Minus this one graph that isn't on the instructions all coursework and final are done. I guess she can just take it again next term. All the works done.

[bjcheung77]

Ah well, the instructor is the "farce" here. I would do exactly what you mentioned, email the two. Ask the instructor to see if they can "pass" the course even with "issues" on the final assignment, even if she gets 50% on that assignment, if her course overall is higher percentage, it's a "pass". That's all you need... explain to them you just need to complete the assignment and pass, if they need to doc points, so be it (as long as it's a passing grade though). I'll take a B or B- versus a fail any day...

[LevelUP]

My wife corrected and sent it for seventh time this morning and the professor just wrote back that it still needs corrections, but they are impossible. If the bar graph is representing values from 212-252 then it won't be represented correctly when the y-axis is limited to 0-60...WTF

My wife is probably going to be kicked out. She just posted back a pretty scathing post to the professor and nasty e-mail to Jessica and Cody.

The last day of class is tomorrow at midnight. So probably too late to drop it. Minus this one graph that isn't on the instructions all coursework and final are done. I guess she can just take it again next term. All the works done.

It's not too late, there is still time on the clock. Fight it out till the end.

UMPI is a small school, it shouldn't be hard to get in touch with someone with authority to drop the class. 

I would be concerned about when people will leave on Friday to go home, so you might only have till mid-day Friday to get this sorted out before you run out of options. 

Then use the free week to pass SDC biology and be ready to start UMPI next term, finish up and graduate.

Then all this drama makes for a good story one day.