Straighterline Microbiology Lab Only Course Questions

[cypster]

Personally I have only taken the course through SL, but I was thinking of doing the lab also, had heard of some potential issues of things not matching up but nothing that was that bad. And for chemistry I read many of the reviews from other various random sites (although they could be potentially biased.) Stating some of the things you mentioned.

Hey there turtlepuff. Thanks for the feedback. It looks like taking this course through a regular brick and mortar would probably be a better idea. Sadly I have to deal with it since I've already shelled out so much but this one issue consumed my entire morning and a huge chunk of yesterday afternoon. I consider myself fortunately to have found at least a little help from the folks at eScience Kits which was the group that sells the lab kit used in this SL course. It seems that there was in fact an error on the lab. I realize now however that SL is simply a reseller for the lab that was createed by eSciencelabs and what they've done is added a Pre-lab and a Post-lab to make it more orginal? Jury's out on their rationale. They said they agree that these cellular extensions should be pili and will contact SL to update the pre-lab questions. They also said they will research my other question about the capsule being mislabeled as well. When you call Straighterline for help with this lab it becomes obviously very quickly that they know nothing about the actual content of this course. They refer you to create a support ticket and wait for a response which can take as long as they like. I feel sorry for anyone who takes this course and has multiple questions... I still haven't heard back from the ticket I created... In this course you are pretty much on your own. I'll just keep slaving away at it for now...