Anyone take Study.com CS302 (System Analysis) lately?

[Merlin]

It turns out that the person who responded to me is the author of the assignment and he actually reads this forum, which I think is very cool. Hopefully, more of the content developers on these sites take the time to read comments on these forums since I know a lot of people will post here to discuss their issues with courses rather than submit them to the course providers.

Anyway, he sent me a second follow-up in reply to my last post which helps clarify things further. Between those two notes and comments from others here, I was able to figure out what they were looking for. Or at least, I was able to create my own approach for how to deal with this assignment. One of the big things that was interfering with my ability to move forward was the word count, as it is listed as 750-1000 words per report, or 1500-2000 words total. I was having a hard time reconciling what they were asking for within the constraints of those limits. Once he clarified that 750-1000 words were intended to be the minimum, with no specific maximum, that made a lot more sense to me.

All that taken together, I was able to churn out the two papers (collectively like 20 pages and closer to 5000 words, including diagrams and references) but it feels to me that it at least captures the point of the assignment. I had to make stuff up to fill in the gaps, but I approached this as a proposal that would be expanded upon later once a contract was approved, which allowed me to cut a few corners in terms of not going into technical details on hardware specifications, etc.

Overall, it feels like the assignment expects a lot more effort than most other study.com assignments, including the other UL CS course. Hopefully, that ends up getting scaled back to something more reasonable at some point in the future.

Anyway, it's done and since I only needed like 10% on the assignment to pass, I'm not too worried about the rest at this point. Hopefully this thread will help others who may be attempting this course before further clarifications are made.