My WGU BS-NOS Accountability

[theonlyski]

Three weeks since I started this track, I've just met the on-time progression requirement, meaning I have finished 4 courses (12 CUs)!

Here are my thoughts on the school and courses so far:

My interactions with my Student Mentor (I think they're being renamed to Program Mentors) have all been positive. We both have a military IT background and every call seems to flow smoothly. I have no issues with her at all.

I've only interacted with one course mentor and she's been awesome. I really was worried about the composition courses but she's really helped me get through them.

Courses finished so far:

C455 - English Comp 1: This requires 4 different types of essays, nothing super crazy but it's been a LONG time since I've left high school and with a few emails back and forth between the CM and myself, we got it all figured out. The first essay I submitted without interaction with her. My second I did the same but it got kicked back. She helped me figure out that that I was off track and made some recommendations to get back on it. I ended up completely ditching that essay and just writing another one that met the requirements easier. Since then I've given her my drafts and gotten feedback, with no essays being kicked back.

C168 - Critical Thinking and Logic: I took the pre-assessment and did alright on it (I passed), not as high as my SM would like so I studied a bit and re-took the pre-assessment with a higher score. I took the OA and passed with an Exemplary. This was my first completed course. There was some terminology that they want you to pay attention to, nothing too difficult.

C165 - Integrated Physical Sciences: I took the pre-assessment and did alright on it, my score was high enough to satisfy my SM and she approved the OA which I took the same day and scored a bit better on it. I would say someone who's taken chemistry and physics in any form even at a high school level should probably be fine on this. I took the OAs for this and C168 on the same day, a few hours apart and I don't think I had even activated the C165 course until after I passed C168.

C268 - Spreadsheets: This one was a little daunting for me at first, the tasks required me to use things in Excel I've never even heard of, but that's fine, Excel has some pretty awesome features and really, this ended up being fairly easy. The PA and OA are similar and you can do the PA as many times as you want. The coaching report won't show you exactly what they want but it will show you when you're using a formula that it doesn't like and link you to the chapter that covers the area. I worked on every single page until I got 100% then moved to the next and ran through it from blank to done a few times. The OA was fairly simple but my proctor screwed up a little, nothing major and I don't expect everyone to have the same problems.

Now I get to start accelerating!