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Although smaller colleges offer online courses in a variety of subjects, they generally don't have much information to use to figure out if you want to take a particular course from a particular instructor. The really large colleges with tens of thousands of students have plenty of information available at Rate My Professors | Find and rate your professor, campus and more - RateMyProfessors.com and Professor ratings, average GPA, class schedule & degree tools | MyEdu.

When using ratemyprofessors, don't focus only on the easiness rating. The clarity rating is also important. If an instructor is crystal clear, you can probably make an A because you know exactly what you have to do - it just might take more effort. Reading student comments requires critical thinking. If a student comment has a lot of bad grammar and misspelled words and the comment says the instructor is unfair or hard, discount (or ignore) the comment. The student comments are helpful in determining if the instructor's style is compatible with your strengths. If you don't like to write and the student comments say there is a lot of writing, keep looking for a better match.

The value in myedu is in seeing what grades the instructor gave. This information comes from public records and myedu compiles it and provides it in graphical form. I've seen average GPAs for a given instructor and course range from 1.5 - 3.7.

Another way to pick instructors is to take a very long term view. At a school you've been admitted to, during early registration, keep checking to see what instructors have no openings early in the registration process. The really good instructors may have full classes on the first day of registration. It may not help you for the current semester to know you missed out, but it tells you to register really early for the next semester to get the right instructor.

Eventually you run out of tests and you have to take courses at a college or university. If you apply the same diligence to course selection that you did for credit by examination, you can have a great educational experience.