UMPI Changes / BrightSpace

[origamishuttle]

@learningthehardway, a member on the board mentioned that a capstone course was 3/4ths the entire degree of a competency based program.  I mean, you'll have to do a bit of writing, but compared to a capstone, you'll be having it much easier and faster too...

Very much this. Each of my asynchronous capstones (COSC, TESU) were more writing than the entirety of both CBE degrees (WGU, UMPI) combined, and WGU also has a capstone!

I wonder if I have time to join summer 2 lol.

You can try! I think today may be the deadline...

[ss20ts]

@learningthehardway, a member on the board mentioned that a capstone course was 3/4ths the entire degree of a competency based program.  I mean, you'll have to do a bit of writing, but compared to a capstone, you'll be having it much easier and faster too...

I wonder if I have time to join summer 2 lol.

Not if you haven't been accepted. Summer 2 starts Monday.

[learningthehardway]

@learningthehardway, a member on the board mentioned that a capstone course was 3/4ths the entire degree of a competency based program.  I mean, you'll have to do a bit of writing, but compared to a capstone, you'll be having it much easier and faster too...

I wonder if I have time to join summer 2 lol.

Not if you haven't been accepted. Summer 2 starts Monday.

And I'm broke lol.

[bjcheung77]

Yeah, it's a waiting game right now... I would basically spin it differently... Sign up for Fall 2 and take something from Coursera/TADA or something else to learn extra, maybe even get ready by preparing for now...

[ARG]

Exams Question - Now that it's fall 2023 and Brightspace is in full effect, there's not a lot of information out there. One, I read that with Brightspace exams are going away, can this be confirmed? Two, I read in one of the thread that exams were open book, and people in that thread said to fail the exams so you can cycle through the questions to study everything. I'm not sure where I read this and if it applied to the old Yourpace or new Brightspace. Nevertheless I took this note down and I'm trying to decide if it's relevant to keep. I thought it odd, but since I've yet to start school and it was a popular thread, I wrote it down. I'm starting to save links to discussions so I can go back to them vs just taking notes.

Thanks for the clarification!

[rachel83az]

Exams Question - Now that it's fall 2023 and Brightspace is in full effect, there's not a lot of information out there. One, I read that with Brightspace exams are going away, can this be confirmed? Two, I read in one of the thread that exams were open book, and people in that thread said to fail the exams so you can cycle through the questions to study everything. I'm not sure where I read this and if it applied to the old Yourpace or new Brightspace. Nevertheless I took this note down and I'm trying to decide if it's relevant to keep. I thought it odd, but since I've yet to start school and it was a popular thread, I wrote it down. I'm starting to save links to discussions so I can go back to them vs just taking notes.

Thanks for the clarification!

The exams weren't open book. And it wasn't the exam questions that one should fail, but the pre-test (or whatever it was called). If you failed the exam, you failed the exam. If you got the pre-test questions wrong, they'd cycle through until you'd seen the whole question bank. This bank was not the same bank as what the exam pulled from, but the questions were close enough to help with studying.

But all of this is moot with the move to Brightspace and the elimination of exams.

[ARG]

Exams Question - Now that it's fall 2023 and Brightspace is in full effect, there's not a lot of information out there. One, I read that with Brightspace exams are going away, can this be confirmed? Two, I read in one of the thread that exams were open book, and people in that thread said to fail the exams so you can cycle through the questions to study everything. I'm not sure where I read this and if it applied to the old Yourpace or new Brightspace. Nevertheless I took this note down and I'm trying to decide if it's relevant to keep. I thought it odd, but since I've yet to start school and it was a popular thread, I wrote it down. I'm starting to save links to discussions so I can go back to them vs just taking notes.

Thanks for the clarification!

The exams weren't open book. And it wasn't the exam questions that one should fail, but the pre-test (or whatever it was called). If you failed the exam, you failed the exam. If you got the pre-test questions wrong, they'd cycle through until you'd seen the whole question bank. This bank was not the same bank as what the exam pulled from, but the questions were close enough to help with studying.

But all of this is moot with the move to Brightspace and the elimination of exams.

Oh my gosh, I'm so glad I asked that question! Even though it's moot now, GOD forbid I tried to fail an exam for study questions! Seriously lol, no more writing down notes in these various forums without links or screenshots. 

Do you know of anyone talking about their UMPI experience from Fall 1 since the move to Brightspace? I feel like I'm looking into a whole new UMPI now. All of the hype that brought me over to sign up is old school now.

[bjcheung77]

Fall 1 was the first session, the main difference is the dashboard and features of the new BrightSpace vs the old Strut learning system. These features are what is causing people to go slower, it's not as user friendly, or restricted in allowing students to accelerate faster. Professors should remain constant, as the content should also be very similar for each course, I think it's just a move from one system to another causing delays as issues are still there...

Recommendation is to make sure you complete the max of 90+ credits for transfer and max that 90 credits if at possible, then set a time for a session to see if you can complete the remaining requirements, if you can't, then settle for two sessions. You need to go at Your Pace and not how someone else does things, everyone has their own subjective yet comfy pace of completing assessments and assignments. Your key is time management, good luck, have fun!

[ss20ts]

Exams Question - Now that it's fall 2023 and Brightspace is in full effect, there's not a lot of information out there. One, I read that with Brightspace exams are going away, can this be confirmed? Two, I read in one of the thread that exams were open book, and people in that thread said to fail the exams so you can cycle through the questions to study everything. I'm not sure where I read this and if it applied to the old Yourpace or new Brightspace. Nevertheless I took this note down and I'm trying to decide if it's relevant to keep. I thought it odd, but since I've yet to start school and it was a popular thread, I wrote it down. I'm starting to save links to discussions so I can go back to them vs just taking notes.

Thanks for the clarification!

The exams weren't open book. And it wasn't the exam questions that one should fail, but the pre-test (or whatever it was called). If you failed the exam, you failed the exam. If you got the pre-test questions wrong, they'd cycle through until you'd seen the whole question bank. This bank was not the same bank as what the exam pulled from, but the questions were close enough to help with studying.

But all of this is moot with the move to Brightspace and the elimination of exams.

Those were quizzes which weren't graded. Not the exams. If you failed an exam, then you failed the course. All of this is irrelevant now because UMPI has completed the move to Brightspace and there are no more exams. Everything is now a paper, PowerPoint, some sort of project, etc. It's all written work and no exams at all.

[ARG]

Exams Question - Now that it's fall 2023 and Brightspace is in full effect, there's not a lot of information out there. One, I read that with Brightspace exams are going away, can this be confirmed? Two, I read in one of the thread that exams were open book, and people in that thread said to fail the exams so you can cycle through the questions to study everything. I'm not sure where I read this and if it applied to the old Yourpace or new Brightspace. Nevertheless I took this note down and I'm trying to decide if it's relevant to keep. I thought it odd, but since I've yet to start school and it was a popular thread, I wrote it down. I'm starting to save links to discussions so I can go back to them vs just taking notes.

Thanks for the clarification!

The exams weren't open book. And it wasn't the exam questions that one should fail, but the pre-test (or whatever it was called). If you failed the exam, you failed the exam. If you got the pre-test questions wrong, they'd cycle through until you'd seen the whole question bank. This bank was not the same bank as what the exam pulled from, but the questions were close enough to help with studying.

But all of this is moot with the move to Brightspace and the elimination of exams.

Those were quizzes which weren't graded. Not the exams. If you failed an exam, then you failed the course. All of this is irrelevant now because UMPI has completed the move to Brightspace and there are no more exams. Everything is now a paper, PowerPoint, some sort of project, etc. It's all written work and no exams at all.

I'm comfortable with that. I've read in the Discord that people are saying the courses are now much longer, that the milestones alone are sometimes longer then the whole class on the old system, and grading in some classes is taking upwards of 10 days. I'm just taking this all in while I wait until fall 2 starts and I begin for the first term and going back and forth on what classes I should actually take to avoid a mess with higher enrollment and bandwidth issues due to Brightspace growing pains. I applied a month ago and just got told my evaluation should be coming up. I can see in the system they have me down for accounting, I never chose accounting so I've reported that. I'd hate to lose time on a bad evaluation for a degree plan I'm not even going for. I also have 100+ credits through community college, Sophia, Straighterline and my Real Estate, Marketing, CNA and Sub-teaching certificates/licenses. I also made sure to take the 3 classes on Sophia that are considered UL. I'm assuming I'll meet the 90 credit opportunity. I'll be shocked and so bummed if I'm just waiting all this time for bad news.