Request advice and answer to some questions on courses, credits - regarding TESU BSBA

[jingyu96]

Hi, everyone,
I have just started on working toward my degree @ TESU.
I am looking for some advice and answers.

Please, answer anything that you can: any insight would be helpful to me!

I apologize in advance if any question has already been previously answered on the forum (I tried my best using search).

1) I have taken the the following courses:
TEEX Cybersecurity courses 101 and 201
ALEKS: College ALgebra, Intm Alg, Biz Stats, and (planning)Precalc/Trig.
Sophia: Developing Effective Team
but I am not sure in which category in TESU's curriculum do they fit into (I haven't found any excel templates that included them)
General Education Electives or Free Electives? And does TESU even taken some of them?
I have looked around in the forum and can only find info that it doesn't fit into Understanding Physical/Natural Sciences.

2) I am planning on taking Eng Comp I and II on study.com, but also thinking that maybe a single 6 credit CLEP would be easier?
To whom would you recommend study.com vs CLEP exam? (is the 6 credit CLEP exam difficult, how is it formatted? Should I do it on Modern States, to get the free voucher?)

(I personally love study.com's interface and course structure(text based with quiz per section). It's perfect for me, whereas Straighterline feels so so so slow to me.
3) How does Schmoop compare to Study.com's interface?
Does Schmoop have proctored exams? Does TESU take Schmoop's credit? (I know schmoop's ACE recommended, but still)

4) What courses should I take from Davar, if any?(since many people seem to take at least a few courses from there, I don't know why)
What's Davar's course format like, compared to study.com?

5) on TESU, the Gen Ed electives and the Free Electives seem to share the same HYPERlink. Does that mean that I can take any courses on (http://www2.tesu.edu/listall.php) to satisfy the two categories?

6) If I am doing BSBA-GM, after study.com/schmoop/SL/DAVAR/saylor, I'm guessing there are still some courses left that will have to be TECEP.
So the question is, what is TECEP actually? Is it like TESU's own online courses, similar to study/SL././?
Do they require enrollment to do TECEP? (since I plan on only enrolling after at least having 90+ credits from other sources)
Is TECEP more or as diffucult as study.com? How much is it?

7) CAPSTONE: BUS-421 - TESU online. What is it like? How difficult is it?

8) I attached a 2017 BSBA-GM excelsheet that came somewhere from DegreeForum.
From the TESU, my understanding is that for Area of study, what I need to do is take 4 courses(12 CREDITS) in UL from my specialization. Then ONE from EACH of 2 areas that is not my specialization, regardless UL or LL. (that's 6 credits). That would satisfy both the stated requirements from the site.
PLUS 

Again, I apologize if any question has already been previously answered on the forum.
Forgive me

Thanks in advance!!!
Thank you guys so so much and thank the forum for providing everything I needed to kickstart my attempt at a Bachelor's degree!!!

[dfrecore]

First, that spreadsheet was mine, and someone customized it, but not in a good way.  They took out all of the flexibility, making it look like you can only take certain classes, and from certain places.  Use this one instead:

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1) I have taken the the following courses:
TEEX Cybersecurity courses 101 (comes in as CAP-295, Free Elective) and 201 (comes in as CAP-385, Free Elective)
ALEKS: College ALgebra (comes in as MAT-121), Intm Alg (comes in as MAT-115), Biz Stats (comes in as STA-201), and (planning)Precalc/Trig (comes in as MAT-129) - but only courses that got completed before 8/31/17 are ACE-approved; this may change, if they get re-approved, but it's not looking good
Sophia: Developing Effective Team (comes in as HRM-299, can be used in AOS but it's only 1cr)

5) on TESU, the Gen Ed electives and the Free Electives seem to share the same HYPERlink. Does that mean that I can take any courses on (http://www2.tesu.edu/listall.php) to satisfy the two categories? No - Gen Eds does not include Business/Management courses, some computer courses, PE, Health, other things like that.  It includes the Humanities (art, religion, communication, etc.), Social Sciences (History, Psych, Economics, etc.), and Natural Sciences (at TESU it includes all science, and computer science).

6) If I am doing BSBA-GM, after study.com/schmoop/SL/DAVAR/saylor, I'm guessing there are still some courses left that will have to be TECEP. Not at all.
So the question is, what is TECEP actually? Is it like TESU's own online courses, similar to study/SL././? It's an exam.
Do they require enrollment to do TECEP? Yes (since I plan on only enrolling after at least having 90+ credits from other sources) Why?  I would apply and enroll sooner than that.

8) I attached a 2017 BSBA-GM excelsheet that came somewhere from DegreeForum.
From the TESU, my understanding is that for Area of study, what I need to do is take 4 courses(12 CREDITS) in UL from my specialization. Then ONE from EACH of 2 areas that is not my specialization, regardless UL or LL. (that's 6 credits). That would satisfy both the stated requirements from the site.
PLUS If you're doing General Management, then you don't have a specialization.  You need to take 18cr, 12 of them UL.  They have to cover 3 of the 4 areas (ACC, MAR, MAN, FIN).  You can cover all 4 areas if you want, but 3 are required.  The UL credits can be in any area(s).

Again, I apologize if any question has already been previously answered on the forum.
Forgive me

Thanks in advance!!!
Thank you guys so so much and thank the forum for providing everything I needed to kickstart my attempt at a Bachelor's degree!!!

I answered what I knew.

We used to have a good Beginner's Guide here that explained a lot, but I can no longer find it since we switched hosts.  It was long, and some info outdated, but it certainly taught a lot about the process.

There is a new Beginner's Guide, but it's short, and doesn't explain all of the things the old Beginner's Guide did, so I don't really recommend it like I used to.  Sorry, I'm not sure how else to explain it, but if you could find the old Guide, it would be very helpful to you.

The other thing you need to do: read this forum.  For like an hour a day for the next month.  Take a course or two while you're learning, but honestly, you need to just immerse yourself and learn, learn, learn.

Good luck.

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Strange, I did 2 separate responses, and it combined it into a single one that is now totally funky. Not sure what happened there, but I don't know how to fix it either. Sorry.

[bjcheung77]

jingyu96 - You're young and you've got so much info down pat already by reading whatever info you have thus far... good work!
The spreadsheet template you were referencing came from my "Signature", it even says it's geared for Study.com/Straighterline.

If you read the Beginners Guide/Wiki and Spreadsheet, you'll know most of the info you need to get a degree... many people PM me just to get a little bit more to finalize their degree. You can customize any template the way you want it to reflect cheap/easy/fast.

Read on my friend, the journey's just beginning, it's going to be a pretty fun ride once you finish it! The Beginner's Guide is a sticky with all the links to the Wiki. Work hard and make sure to have fun!

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dfrecore - the forum software mybb actually "lumps" your posts if you post right after your previous one... thus the screen shows as what it does when I just updated it with this note... there's nothing much you can do about it, a feature none the less of "mybb"

[davewill]

Strange, I did 2 separate responses, and it combined it into a single one that is now totally funky.  Not sure what happened there, but I don't know how to fix it either.  Sorry.

You can insert the spreadsheet into the post so it shows up where you mentioned it. Then the post would read fine.

[Ideas]

Shmoop is really cheap and doesn't have proctored exams. TESU takes ACE credit, and Shmoop is ACE. Shmoop looks really great until you find out that their exam questions are worded in tricky ways. It can be frustrating.

The Davar option is much better for the International course than the Study.com one. Just because the Study.com makes you write 4 papers and the Davar one you just take the exam.

Some people like Davar instead of doing like 100 quizzes on Study.com, but mostly Study.com is easier.

A course can't fulfill 2 requirements. You pick which requirement you want the course to go into.

TECEP doesn't require enrollment but you get a small price break if you are. TECEP is $117 if you are enrolled. TECEP is not a course like SL. You just study and take the exam. Kind of like a CLEP. Many TECEPs have essay questions.