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[ctcarl]

Is anyone racking up credits like crazy on Sophia? I have completed 3 classes this past week. And they are all free. I will keep going!!!*...the statistics course looks nice*

Definitely working on it! Popped out two easy ones (religion and US History I) and am now working on Eng. Comp I and Algebra (which isn't so nice). I plan to complete the whole shebang.

Thanks to BJ and his recommendation of Sophia, I've taken everything they offer, except English Comp II.  Still waiting for one Touchstone to be graded, but over 80 credits so far.

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Definitely working on it! Popped out two easy ones (religion and US History I) and am now working on Eng. Comp I and Algebra (which isn't so nice). I plan to complete the whole shebang.

Sophia does seem like the best learning platform for people new to online courses to start.  The 1 credit classes don't take long at all.  

The English Composition courses are pure hell no matter what platform you use.  I haven't heard of anyone on here that has completed those 2 courses in less than 40 hours of hard work.  The CLEP, on the other hand, is very easy and only 1 hour of writing and you're done.  Mainly people that fail the CLEP run out of time.  One person by accident clicked wrong and turned in a blank essay and still passed!

That Sophia US history I like the content but MAN that course is like 3x harder than visual communications.  All those questions that had multiple answers, was a real pain in the butt.  

Visual communication is about designing and little marketing as well.  Has nothing to do with speaking or doing presentations.  I really liked that course fit right in with my major and career.

I'm surprised to hear that.  With everything on Sophia being "open book", I was able to finish courses that would have terrified me previously, like Algebra ("MAAAATH!!") and Statistics.  I found all the history courses enjoyable (compared to Stats, anyway), but then again I do like history.  Intro to Ethics turned out to be my personal hell.  Oh yeah, sure, my newfound knowledge of Kantian Deontology is gonna come in real handy someday.  One bright note for that course (and for Ancient Greek Philosophers, too); years of listening to Monty Python finally paid off.

If English Comp isn't your strong subject, I'd suggest starting with their Foundations of English Comp.  It's a good warmup, particularly if you've been out of school for as long as I have.  As a bonus, it's good for 2 elective credits.

I'll admit that five Touchstones (projects) did seem excessive to me for English Comp I, especially compared to Study.com's three.  Study.com has the edge there.  To be fair, it's not as much of an edge as first appears.  Those five Touchstones are really only four; a narrative essay, a compare/contrast essay, an informative essay, and an argumentative essay.  One of the Touchstones is actually just a revision of your informative essay, and that took me about 20 minutes, based on the excellent, targeted feedback on the draft provided by the instructor.  If anything, my beef with this course has to be the amount of time it took to complete, because you have to wait for your draft to be graded before you can complete and submit the revision.  Realistically, I don't think there's any way to complete this course in less than five or six weeks right now, and even that might be a challenge.  If you're rolling along, cramming for and passing an exam a week or whatever, this one can stop you in your tracks.

I had orignally planned on taking the English Comp CLEP until my school shot it down.  And of course no one is taking any CLEPs right now.

OTOH, is it worth dealing with Study.com's invasive, complicated video proctoring vs. Sophia's unobtrusive, instant biometric proctoring?  And there's the cost factor as well.  Judgement call.