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[daharamu]

I have a quick question, I finished Visual Communications just before last weekend and it says "Congratulations, you've successfully completed all course requirements. It may take up to 2 business days to finalize your course and prepare your official transcript." I go to COSC, do they just send it to my college and the college updates my transcript automatically, or does anyone know how it works? Thank you!

[rachel83az]

Set up your transcript through ACE by going to https://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseacti...ripts.main and creating an account. As you finish Sophia courses, you add them to your ACE transcript. When you've done all you can/all you want to, you go to ACE and tell them to send a transcript to COSC. Transcripts cost $20 so you don't want to be sending them after every single course you finish.

[daharamu]

Set up your transcript through ACE by going to https://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseacti...ripts.main and creating an account. As you finish Sophia courses, you add them to your ACE transcript. When you've done all you can/all you want to, you go to ACE and tell them to send a transcript to COSC. Transcripts cost $20 so you don't want to be sending them after every single course you finish.

Gotcha, I didn't know that. Thank you very much! Also through Sophia.org do they grade courses or is it just pass/fail?

[rachel83az]

Sophia courses are just pass/fail. As long as you get 70% or more on the whole course, you're good. IIRC, there are some colleges/universities that will give you a letter grade if you do send transcripts directly from Sophia to them. But it's not necessary. The ACE transcripts are just fine.

[daharamu]

Sophia courses are just pass/fail. As long as you get 70% or more on the whole course, you're good. IIRC, there are some colleges/universities that will give you a letter grade if you do send transcripts directly from Sophia to them. But it's not necessary. The ACE transcripts are just fine.

That's great to know, thank you very much!

[MNomadic]

A Sophia rep told me I couldn’t but I just made another account with a different email & completed courses there.

You do realize you're not allowed to do that, right? You could lose your account/credits for violating Sophia's honor code policy.

Read the honor code policy again, it doesn't say anything about making a second account. Many people have made second accounts and later had them combined by a Sophia rep.

Copied directly from Sophia:

Honor Code
To take a Sophia course, students must abide by the following honor code:

• You are permitted to register only one account. Maintaining multiple accounts is considered a violation of this Honor Code.
  
  
• The answers to all assessments will be your work, and your work alone.
  
  
• You will not make solutions to assessment questions available to anyone else.
  
  
• You will not engage in any other activities that could dishonestly improve your results or improve/hinder the results of others.
  
  
• Failure to comply with the Student Honor Code will result in removal from the course, removal of courses from your transcript, and/or disqualification to enroll in future courses.
  

Yes, I agree to the Student Honor Code, and understand violation may result in immediate cancellation of my account.

This is the honor code that you have to agree to every time you register to take a course. Maybe some students have been permitted to roll two accounts into one. But it's risky to suggest this as a way to get around things like time limits.

My mistake, I think I read the honor code in the syllabus or something and it didn't mention that.

[eriehiker]

Set up your transcript through ACE by going to https://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseacti...ripts.main and creating an account. As you finish Sophia courses, you add them to your ACE transcript. When you've done all you can/all you want to, you go to ACE and tell them to send a transcript to COSC. Transcripts cost $20 so you don't want to be sending them after every single course you finish.

Gotcha, I didn't know that. Thank you very much! Also through Sophia.org do they grade courses or is it just pass/fail?

COSC is the college that will give letter grades based on official transcripts.  These will not be calculated within the official GPA.  That said, if you scored an A or B, you might want to send direct transcripts because that looks pretty good.  My understanding is that you can't go back and change from credit/no credit to graded after the fact, so you should at least think about this.

[daharamu]

Set up your transcript through ACE by going to https://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseacti...ripts.main and creating an account. As you finish Sophia courses, you add them to your ACE transcript. When you've done all you can/all you want to, you go to ACE and tell them to send a transcript to COSC. Transcripts cost $20 so you don't want to be sending them after every single course you finish.

Gotcha, I didn't know that. Thank you very much! Also through Sophia.org do they grade courses or is it just pass/fail?

COSC is the college that will give letter grades based on official transcripts.  These will not be calculated within the official GPA.  That said, if you scored an A or B, you might want to send direct transcripts because that looks pretty good.  My understanding is that you can't go back and change from credit/no credit to graded after the fact, so you should at least think about this.

I have gotten over 90% on the two courses I have taken so far on Sophia.org, so I think that's a good idea to send them direct in that case! Thank you very much for your advice!

[Michelle779]

Has anyone transferred Ancient Greek Philosophers over to COSC? Will it satisfy the global requirement or the non-US history requirement?

[ctcarl]

Has anyone transferred Ancient Greek Philosophers over to COSC? Will it satisfy the global requirement or the non-US history requirement?

Hi Michelle, I checked out the Sophia Charter Oak Equivalency Guide here: https://charteroak.sophia.org/#courses

Unfortunately, they don't list Ancient Greek Philosophers, which means they likely don't have an agreement on it yet.  It might be treated as an elective.

Best bet is to shoot an email to admissions@charteroak.edu, or touch base with your advisor.