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[Merlin]

I'm taking the computer science course. There are 160 steps you have to take. That's a lot. Most of the videos are 10min length. So basically you have to spend at least 1600 minutes (26 hours) to finish it. Thinking you are spending 2 hours per day, you need 2 weeks to finish one course. Too long for me.

Sounds like about the same as one of the more in-depth Study.com courses. Two weeks is about average for a course in any case. Most courses are designed to take 40-80 hours to complete anywhere you go.

If you want to get through the material faster (perhaps you already know a lot of the material) you can just speed up the video (as long as the set time is met, which is apparently half the length of the video, per eriehiker). Then again, you don't really have to watch each one fully (or read the transcript/CC) if you don't care about the "participation" score, which is pretty insignificant. So, given that, you can technically move through a course as fast as you're able to.

Considering that the quiz scores are worth 50%, the final is worth 40%, and "attendance/participation" is worth 10%, as long as you can still max out on the quizzes without (or with less) video lessons, and are confident you can get ≥ 20% on the final, you don't need to worry about the participation score at all and still achieve a 70% passing score. Not to mention, they throw out the lowest two quiz scores before calculating quizzes into your grade, and you'll still get a partial participation award if you watch some of the videos, so that makes it even more reasonable.