Saylor question

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I was going to take with Saylor but couldn't find an answer to most of the questions I had regarding testing etc. ultimately I decided to take it with Straighterline and had a very good experience. The SL course consisted of 14 chapter quizzes, a midterm, 3 papers (one 1 page letter, one 2 page coversheet and resume and one 1500 word report) and the final. The final had to be procotored using proctor U. all the test and exams were open book with 1 page of handwritten notes allowed.

I was able to finish the SL class in 5 days with a "B" with minimal study or reading. My only criticism is that some of the exam questions are not direct from the text book. You have to deduce some of the answers by building on what you read, in other words, the book may give you a minimal explanation for something and then you have to infer the next step or solution. some of the questions/material is common sense, some is covered in a normal speech class and in IC through organizational behavior, principles of management or human resource management. Even so I wouldn't recommend the class without using the textbook.

In general I didn't like the book very much for the reasons above (especially the ebook). I used an ebook from Chegg and the ereader interface is a bit clunky and the search filter returns everything making it harder to find what you are looking for. Further the books glossary, in my opinion, isn't very good. Oh and 1 more frustrating thing -using the search function returns the page numbers in roman numerals but the book has normal page numbers! Search for something like "communication channel" and it says page cccxxvi instead of page 326!!!

Having said that I do recommend the SL course and think it is an efficient, inexpensive way to finish the class quickly with minimal writing etc.

Good luck.