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please describe your WGU courses - rvm - 01-16-2019

I've recommended WGU to several friends recently.  They all asked me what WGU courses are like - format, quality of content (not specifics course or exam questions), content alignment with quizzes, exams, etc., proctoring snafus, and more?  

There's a thread on this forum where we listed the course, provider and summary of course.  I read through that entire thread and did not see one single WGU course.

I'd love to hear some details and if you've taken courses at WGU, please consider writing a summary on that course thread. 

Thank you in advance!

RE: please describe your WGU courses - Johmford - 01-16-2019

Idk... I just went to the assessments and completed them...

To be honest I think things are to find when you need them in the course.

RE: please describe your WGU courses - quigongene - 01-16-2019

The formats for the classes vary. Some have Objective Assessments (OAs) which are basically final exams. The courses also have a Pre Assessment (Pre-A) that you can guage your knowledge of the topic, and know where your weak points are.

Other courses have Performance Assessments (PAs), which are essentially papers. There are no "page counts" per say, but they give you a rubric. Writing to the rubric will usually get you a pass for the course.

RE: please describe your WGU courses - rvm - 01-16-2019

(01-16-2019, 07:36 PM)jjsafari Wrote: Idk... I just went to the assessments and completed them...

To be honest I think things are to find when you need them in the course.

@Jjsafari, thank you for your reply.  Would you elaborate on your second sentence, please?  I don't quite understand.

RE: please describe your WGU courses - rvm - 01-17-2019

(01-16-2019, 07:51 PM)quigongene Wrote: The formats for the classes vary.  Some have Objective Assessments (OAs) which are basically final exams.  The courses also have a Pre Assessment (Pre-A) that you can guage your knowledge of the topic, and know where your weak points are.  

Other courses have Performance Assessments (PAs), which are essentially papers.  There are no "page counts" per say, but they give you a rubric.  Writing to the rubric will usually get you a pass for the course.

Thank you Guigongene.  You may have mentioned this in a previous post - may I ask which courses you took at WGU?

RE: please describe your WGU courses - bluebooger - 01-17-2019

https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU/

RE: please describe your WGU courses - rvm - 01-17-2019

(01-17-2019, 11:11 AM)bluebooger Wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU/

Thank you Blue.  I visit that reddit group somewhat regularly, though I haven't been on it since the holidays.  This person is knocking it out of the park: https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU/comments/agpn22/42_cus_down_in_14_days_hoping_to_finish_the_last/

I've searched there and don't seem to get much info about specific courses.  I'll search again.  I'm looking for a second degree as I'm about to graduate with my BS.  I would have graduated already had I not postponed English I & II and Technical Writing.  

When I write content that is of the caliber required for those courses, it tends to take me an exceptionally long time.  That's due to some mild brain damage due to an illness I wish I could cure.  I have not taken the English Composition CLEP for that reason. 

My understanding is there is a significant amount of writing in some WGU courses.  That's mostly what I'd like to learn more about.  Though my course of study is IT/Data-related, perhaps the writing won't be such a big deal.  But for my neighbor (who is the process of a credit appeal at WGU) who is dyslexic and doesn't like to write either, courses outside IT (his AoS, as well), are difficult, especially when there's a significant amount of writing or a misalignment of content, like there is with many Saylor courses.

RE: please describe your WGU courses - bluebooger - 01-17-2019

(01-17-2019, 11:50 AM)rvm Wrote: I've searched there and don't seem to get much info about specific courses.  

look on the right side and see these links -- maybe one of them will be more specific 

Sister Subreddits

RE: please describe your WGU courses - quigongene - 01-17-2019

I took a total of 15 classes from WGU in 15 weeks for 55CUs (I transferred in 67):

C683 - Natural Science Lab - 2 (PA is lab report)
C168 - Critical Thinking & Logic - 3 (OA)
C842 - Cyber Defense & Countermeasures - 4 (OA is ECIH cert)
C840 - Digital Forensics in Cybersecurity - 4 (OA and PA is 1 paper)
C844 - Emerging Technologies in Cybersecurity - 4 (PA is 2 papers)
C839 - Introduction to Cryptography - 4 (OA is ECES cert)
C393 - IT Foundations - 4 (OA is 1st test of A+ cert)
C394 - IT Applications - 4 (OA is 2nd test of A+ cert)
C841 - Legal Issues in Information Security - 4 (PA is 2 papers and 2 PPT decks)
C837 - Managing Web Security - 4 (OA is CIW-WSA cert)
C172 - Network & Security Foundations - 3 (OA)
C178 - Network & Security Applications - 4 (OA is Security+)
C480 - Networks - 4 (OA is Network+)
C173 - Scripting & Programming Foundations - 3 (OA)
C769 - IT Capstone Written Project - 4 (PA is project approval & 2 papers)

Anything that just has OA above is an in house test.

RE: please describe your WGU courses - rvm - 01-17-2019

(01-17-2019, 12:13 PM)bluebooger Wrote:
(01-17-2019, 11:50 AM)rvm Wrote: I've searched there and don't seem to get much info about specific courses.  

look on the right side and see these links -- maybe one of them will be more specific 

Sister Subreddits

Kudos!  I definitely have not visited those groups.  Thank you!   Smile