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OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - Captainrekt000 - 10-07-2024
Good news everyone!!!!
I was finishing up my last few OnlineDegree.com final exams and couldn't download the RPNow proctor.
I emailed customer support and they said to take the final exam by entering the password at the bottom of the exam page of each course! No proctor and no $9 fee! (For now at least!)
This makes OnlineDegree.com completely free! They offer 15 courses with 11 of them offering NCCRS credit (33 credits for free in total).
The following courses can still be taken but no longer offer credit:
- Introduction to Cooking
- Introduction to Psychology
- Education & Literacy
- Introduction to Public Health
This (33) combined with TEEX cybersecurity (13) makes 46 completely free non-proctored credits for TESU!
RE: OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - ss20ts - 10-07-2024
It's really too bad OnlineDegree won't get ACE accreditation. They'd be far more popular if they did. So few schools accept NCCRS.
RE: OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - Avidreader - 10-07-2024
I have been wanting to take my bundle of onlinedegree courses for ages! I was still grandfethered in the psychology and public health courses so if I pass the exam, I should still get the credit. I could never do the exam because it was impossible to download the proctor. Do I still need to download things?
RE: OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - Captainrekt000 - 10-07-2024
(10-07-2024, 03:29 PM)Avidreader Wrote: I have been wanting to take my bundle of onlinedegree courses for ages! I was still grandfethered in the psychology and public health courses so if I pass the exam, I should still get the credit. I could never do the exam because it was impossible to download the proctor. Do I still need to download things?
Nope! On the final exam page, scroll all the way to the bottom. It will say something like "Enter this password in the box above to take the final exam".
No downloading anything!
RE: OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - Avidreader - 10-07-2024
Woooow!!!! This is awesome!!!!!
RE: OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - bjcheung77 - 10-07-2024
Just a reminder, even though they may have this as a freebie now, they're for individuals who are 18+, US citizen or permanent residents...
Here's a post of mine from 5 months back: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-Done-with-Liberal-Arts-Degree?pid=418951#pid418951
RE: OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - Captainrekt000 - 10-08-2024
(10-07-2024, 11:15 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Just a reminder, even though they may have this as a freebie now, they're for individuals who are 18+, US citizen or permanent residents...
Here's a post of mine from 5 months back: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-Done-with-Liberal-Arts-Degree?pid=418951#pid418951
It would still be great for that motivated US citizen high school senior who just turned 18 and is graduating in a few months and is willing to go to TESU/SNHU where they'll be taken with ACE credits!
I just watched a video from College Hacked on YouTube about a 19-year-old who graduated with his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Liberty University with alternative credits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSu8CjeLNZE
RE: OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - Avidreader - 10-08-2024
I just finished 5 of the courses I left unfinished, really excited that I did so well in the Robotics one. I remember grilling two entire weekends finishing the insane amount of videos and now to finally have credits for the time effort is nice. Plus the course was quite fun and informative.
Sadly the public health course is getting 0 credit even though the website said users who signed up before the deadline would still get credit. Oh well.
The Cybersecurity and History courses won't let me do the exam unless I deliver 3 assignments. I don't remember seeing these here last year. They are supposed to get graded but even if you get a 0 with just an empty doc file technically the homework is ungraded. Seems like a huge time effort writing 3 paragraphs when it won't count anyways.
The final exam in Marketing was pretty difficult, the questions in the quizzes barely overlap with the final. Most final questions are definitions. I felt the robotics final exam to be quite doable, probably why I scored so well on it. The Biology final was quite hard and practically zero overlap with the quiz questions.
I notice that the Environmental science and Nutrition ones don't overlap with TESU with their Sophia equivalents, so since the course is free at least for now, might as well take them!
RE: OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - Captainrekt000 - 10-08-2024
(10-08-2024, 02:03 PM)Avidreader Wrote: I just finished 5 of the courses I left unfinished, really excited that I did so well in the Robotics one. I remember grilling two entire weekends finishing the insane amount of videos and now to finally have credits for the time effort is nice. Plus the course was quite fun and informative.
Sadly the public health course is getting 0 credit even though the website said users who signed up before the deadline would still get credit. Oh well.
The Cybersecurity and History courses won't let me do the exam unless I deliver 3 assignments. I don't remember seeing these here last year. They are supposed to get graded but even if you get a 0 with just an empty doc file technically the homework is ungraded. Seems like a huge time effort writing 3 paragraphs when it won't count anyways.
The final exam in Marketing was pretty difficult, the questions in the quizzes barely overlap with the final. Most final questions are definitions. I felt the robotics final exam to be quite doable, probably why I scored so well on it. The Biology final was quite hard and practically zero overlap with the quiz questions.
I notice that the Environmental science and Nutrition ones don't overlap with TESU with their Sophia equivalents, so since the course is free at least for now, might as well take them!
For Nutrition, Cybersecurity, History, and Education, I BSed the papers. I wrote like 2 sentences about the topic in a word document and sent it in. Nobody reads its nor grades it. It also says somewhere, "This assignment is NOT GRADED but still needs to be submitted".
As long as its submitted, it will let you continue with the course/to the final exam. I was expecting an email saying, "You need to redo this assignment" but it has been at least a month and no email -shrug-
I just finished all 15 courses and earned 33 credits from the 11 credit-bearing courses, including the ones with BSed papers.
Also, I'm super happy I was able to help at least one person on this site!
RE: OnlineDegree No Longer Proctored! (For now) - LevelUP - 10-08-2024
(10-08-2024, 01:22 PM)Captainrekt000 Wrote:(10-07-2024, 11:15 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Just a reminder, even though they may have this as a freebie now, they're for individuals who are 18+, US citizen or permanent residents...
Here's a post of mine from 5 months back: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-Done-with-Liberal-Arts-Degree?pid=418951#pid418951
It would still be great for that motivated US citizen high school senior who just turned 18 and is graduating in a few months and is willing to go to TESU/SNHU where they'll be taken with ACE credits!
I just watched a video from College Hacked on YouTube about a 19-year-old who graduated with his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Liberty University with alternative credits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSu8CjeLNZE
I was recently talking about Liberty University. Their degrees are very hackable, with lots of free electives per degree.
https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-Liberty-University-Difficulty
I have taken four courses with OnlineDegree.com, and the quality of their videos is the best I've seen from any alternative credit provider.
For each lesson, only the first video is crucial for the information used in quiz questions. The rest are supporting materials that you can skip through. While the cost is affordable, the courses are longer compared to other providers. To speed things up, you can watch the videos at 2x speed. However, they block you from advancing to the next video until a set time period has passed.