ASU credit for $99 until 08-17-2020!

[MNomadic]

The final set of $99 courses are now open! My initial thoughts on what I have are as follows:

CSE 110 - Programming for Everyone
15 week course. There are 5 skill challenges, 13 projects, 2 sections for the midterm (not proctored) and 2 sections for the final (proctored). Interestingly, only 11 of the 13 projects count; the worst ones will be dropped from your grade. There are no Cerego flash cards. You do not have to install anything (IDEs, etc.) to complete the projects. Everything is in the browser. The final is (as usual) worth 30% of the grade. You can bomb the final and still get credit, so long as you do decently in the rest of the course. The course is supposed to cover both Java and Python which is a pleasant surprise (I thought it was just Java). 

CSE 105 - Computer Applications and Information Technology
7.5 week course. 12 content mastery sections, 7 quizzes, midterm (not proctored), final (proctored). Content mastery is not Cerego. It's real-world-style exercises. The first week has you doing some sort of cash flow analysis using Excel (and other work, I haven't looked deeply). Final is worth 30% of the grade. Sophia is, obviously, much easier if you're going to TESU. Take Sophia for credit and this as a non-credit option for personal learning.

COM 100 - Introduction to Human Communication
7.5 week course. 7 exit quizzes, 7 reaction/responses, 7 situational analyses, final (proctored). There is no midterm. The final is worth 35% of your grade so you have to do better on the final than for other ASU courses. Reaction/response is an assignment of 300-350 words answering various questions (first week concerns communication in your own life). Situational awareness is another 300-350 word assignment based off of a specific situation (first week is regarding a graduation speech). The "exit quizzes" are just a standard weekly quiz like other ASU courses. 

CHM 114 - Chemistry for Engineers
7.5 week course. 7 quizzes, 7 labs, midterm (not proctored), final (proctored), ALICE chemistry problems. I'm not sure what ALICE is or how it's implemented but it is almost certainly related to http://chem.lapeer.org/Alice/Index.html The lowest scored quiz will be dropped from your grade so that only 6 quizzes count. The midterm is only 10% of your grade while the final is a whopping 39% of your grade. You can do fairly well in this course, bomb the final, and possibly not get credit. Although I have not gone through the course yet, for this reason alone I recommend future students (who will have to pay $25 for each credit attempt) might want to try the no-credit option first before attempting to take it for credit. 

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The only one that I actually need from this group is CSE 110. I am not sure how much of the others I'm going to do. I might work my way through CSE 105 just for the knowledge but, because it duplicates Sophia's Intro to IT, it's definitely not something that I need. Human communication is an awful lot of writing, which makes sense I suppose, but I'd rather focus on ASU's math courses than those.

So it looks like CSE 105 uses cerego as a study tool to prep for the quizzes. Do you happen to know if the quiz questions come right out of the cerego practice questions? That would support my learning style better if I could just skim the readings and use the cerego practice to prep for the quizzes.

[rachel83az]

So it looks like CSE 105 uses cerego as a study tool to prep for the quizzes. Do you happen to know if the quiz questions come right out of the cerego practice questions? That would support my learning style better if I could just skim the readings and use the cerego practice to prep for the quizzes.

Ah ha, I hadn't noticed the Cerego component during my initial look. I dug through to find the Cerego content. It appears to be similar to, though not the same as, the pool of questions for the quiz. Unlike Human Origins where much of the questions were exactly the same for both, this is not the case here. That said, going by the first week's content, the quiz for the first week at least wasn't especially difficult. If you have a passing familiarity with computers, it looks like this course should be relatively easy.

[MNomadic]

I asked about working ahead and this was the response

The weeks will become available over time, this is intended design to allow students to experience the material over time (you'll learn better this way) rather than camp out at your PC one weekend to finish the entire course.

but, but, I want to work ahead!
LOL now I'm tempted to sign up for more cheap ASU courses but there isn't anything left(starting this term) that will directly contribute to my degree goals and I still have some sophias, IT certs, and other alt credits to get through in the coming months before I enroll.

[rachel83az]

I asked about working ahead and this was the response

The weeks will become available over time, this is intended design to allow students to experience the material over time (you'll learn better this way) rather than camp out at your PC one weekend to finish the entire course.

but, but, I want to work ahead!
LOL now I'm tempted to sign up for more cheap ASU courses but there isn't anything left(starting this term) that will directly contribute to my degree goals and I still have some sophias, IT certs, and other alt credits to get through in the coming months before I enroll.

It is a bit annoying that they won't let you work ahead. The first week is very frustrating. The "how to ASU" is in the first part of every ASU course and it's a bit annoying when you have to do it for multiple classes. Oh well.

[SweetsugarNL]

It takes me an hour for each class to set up lol. I know already that this way of study is very time-consuming. Well, see how it goes?.

[rachel83az]

Working my way through Chemistry. It absolutely feels like it has 5x as much stuff (at least in this first "week") as the other ASU courses. Unlike other courses that say 18 hours and it takes you 2 or 3, chemistry may well take you the full 18 hours. We'll see what happens with future weeks. Thankfully, I don't absolutely need this course but I've been interested in chemistry for a while so I'd really like to get through the material.

[Ann7]

I have done a few of the ASU courses and thought I would share my experience....
Intro to Communications - not difficult but takes time if doing well, with two writing assignments weekly referencing back to the weeks videos and reading material and a quiz
Western Civilization - very enjoyable! Lots of video and reading with a weekly quiz
intro. to Health and Wellness - very easy! lots of small quick assignments like posting comments, answering small interactive questions, quiz, videos and charts etc
Communications only has a final(proctored) and the other two had midterms (not proctored yet timed) and proctored finals
I took between 9 -15 hours a week on each of my communications and western civilization classes mainly due to note taking by hand.., I found that if a video was 15 minutes long I spent 45 minutes by pausing and writing notes! So if you only watch and read it's quick, but if you are like me...it can take awhile
For my health class it only took me 5 - 6 hours maximum a week to watch videos, read charts, take notes, assignments and quiz.

I'm still working on self paced English composition 1. It is a lot of work!! I am not good with technology and you have to set up a website to house all of your journals and writing assignments and I would be so much faster "old school" writing on paper! I will finish it though!!! I plan on taking Sophia Eng. Comp 2 afterwards!

I hope this info. helps someone !

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I just signed up for ASU astronomy with lab which hopefully will fulfill COSC science with lab requirement. It looked challenging yet doable until I saw the lab questions!!! I'm not sure if I will be able to do that part! I'm an older learner and Algebra is gone from my brain!! Do they teach you how to do the math or you have to be able to do that on your own??

Has anyone done study.com Biology101 with the virtual lab? That is my only other option. SL lab is sent by mail and I'm in another country... not feasible

I would greatly appreciate anyone's take on which lab is easiest Biology101 from study.com or ASU astronomy lab? Or your thoughts on either if you've taken one of these? Is there a math component to Bio101L? Does ASU astronomy get easier or worse?

Thank you!!!

[rachel83az]

I just signed up for ASU astronomy with lab which hopefully will fulfill COSC science with lab requirement.  It looked challenging yet doable until I saw the lab questions!!!   I'm not sure if I will be able to do that part!  I'm an older learner and Algebra is gone from my brain!!  Do they teach you how to do the math or you have to be able to do that on your own??

Has anyone done study.com Biology101 with the virtual lab?  That is my only other option.  SL lab is sent by mail and I'm in another country... not feasible

I would greatly appreciate anyone's take on which lab is easiest Biology101 from study.com or ASU astronomy lab?  Or your thoughts on either if you've taken one of these?    Is there a math component to Bio101L?  Does ASU astronomy get easier or worse?

Thank you!!!

Keep going! As I wrote in my review here: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...UIdaho-etc the videos aren't necessarily enough to explain the formulae. However, you can do pretty poorly on the labs and still be able to get at least a C. Sign up for Wolfram Alpha and you can have many of the formulas explained to you. I might have been able to get 100% on at least the early labs if I had done this. Check the discussion forum before attempting the labs. The instructor puts MUCH better instructions there, especially after multiple students have issues with the questions. I moved doing the astronomy lessons from first thing on Tuesday to Friday or Saturday to take advantage of this. Remember that you get 3 tries with everything, except the midterm and the final. That really, really helps.

[SweetsugarNL]

They send alot emails about human origins. Is this normal?

[rachel83az]

Yes, they will send a lot of emails! Especially in the first week. You'll get a new email every day. I never read a single one of those emails unless it had a title like "site outage" or something like that. There was a brief period towards the end of the last session where the discussion boards went down and all the classes sent out an email about that.