Documenting My Son's WGU Experience

[rowan555]

Remind me how many credits he has left? I would like to follow along to see how long it should take me.

Also I've read some others and wanted to see what you knew on the subject, was he able to "prep" any work for these WGU classes prior to his official start date? I'm cutting myself off from SL this weekend so that WGU can receive all of my transcripts by 7/1, and I'll start on 8/1 presumably. I'm excited but not for that month off, and I seem to remember people saying they could "start" on some course work during the transcript review period.

Keep posting progress! Thank you again!

He started with 35 credits needed to complete his degree.

You can access all your coursework for your entire program as soon as you complete Orientation - Orientation is available on the 15th prior to your start date as long as you have completed everything and made payment arrangements. He worked on Logic and Critical Thinking, started reading for Employment Law, and knocked out his science tasks during that time. One thing which sort of irritated him is that he did not receive his WGU webcam until 6/12, and there's a 3 day advance notice requirement for scheduling assessments, so while he was ready, he couldn't take his first assessment until 6/15. That being said, as of 6/21 he has completed Integrated Natural Science Applications, Critical Thinking, and Employment Law, and he's about halfway through Spreadsheets. His student mentor said he's moving more quickly than any other student he's had. And honestly from what I can see, he's really not spending a huge amount of time daily on his schoolwork. His initial goal was to complete 6 of his 11 courses within the first 2 months, leaving himself 4 months to complete the last 5 courses. He's struggling with Spreadsheets right now, though, as he has no Excel experience, so that class may hang him up a bit. He started Workforce Planning: Recruitment and Selection today as well, though, so he can work on both concurrently. That one has a final exam plus two papers - a 5-10 page paper and a 3-5 page paper - it will be interesting to see how long that takes him. I assume from here on out all his courses will be like this. He hates writing, but the assignments are very technical and I believe he will be okay just going through the rubric and "filling in the blanks" so to speak.