Tips for Straighterline

[cookderosa]

I've been at this for a while (going very slowly, I work two jobs and have an adopted child who has behavior struggles). Straighterline is going the fastest for me. Study.com made me want to pull my hair out (8-110 quizzes). I really like that I can skim the SL book, open the quiz and search the book for the answer ---for some reason this method really makes things 'stick' in my head and I do feel like I'm learning far more than when I did other course platforms. It sometimes takes me a bit to search out the answer but I do eventually find them.
What I do is 'flag' the questions that I guessed on, the ones where I couldnt find the answer, and I go back to those at the end if I have time left over.


how long is it taking you to get the courses done? I'm finding that skimming the book and then hunting the quiz questions is fairly quick. I usually skip the other stuff ---those slides where they show a slide and have someone talking really annoy me for some reason.

In the courses my sons have taken, I almost always notice 3 streams of information, so quizzes can come from any of them. (1) the ebook (2) the words on the screen during the lesson (3) spoken words during the lesson. The spoken word part is hard to retrieve unless you take notes. When my kids did their first class last year, I made them take notes on the spoken lesson as well as print out the slides from the first 3 lessons - it was about a zillion pages. We had the ebook and the paperback (before they made ebooks free) and so we had a MOUNTAIN of resource material. Still some questions were just random and hard to find. I sat through that entire course with my sons to help them learn the SL system (it was the first time for both) and we did overkill no question. Now they both work 100% independently and almost never take notes or watch the lessons unless it's interesting. That all may change later this month when the both start Business Statistics, which will be 100% new info for both- but I would just encourage you to find the path of least resistance. I'm not familiar with Western Civ or CJ, but if the lessons don't match the quizzes, don't waste your time on the lessons!