Grading delays

[ss20ts]

Exactly! The 72hr turnaround has not changed, it just isn't being enforced. It baffles me how several people just shrug this off because the YourPace tuition is relatively cheap, or make excuses for certain professors being "so busy" lol. UMPI is failing students in a very important aspect of the program. The coursework itself is absolutely easy enough to complete 10-12 classes in one term or even half a term. 

14 days and counting...

I learned to shrug it off because there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn't change it. Sure, I could complain, but that didn't change anything. After awhile, you learn to refocus your energy and work on things you can have an impact on. This program has grown in ways they didn't anticipate. They had no idea that this chick (me) was going to come along and share on a forum how amazing the program was and that bachelor's degrees were really possible for almost everyone today. It spread far beyond this forum.

The fact remains that it is a very small school - around 1100 on campus students and well over 400 YourPace students. It was over 400 students like 2 years ago and it's grown since then. The move to Brightspace is going to have some bumps in the road. We all knew that. There are now multiple professors for several classes which is awesome! When I started in Fall 2020, there was 1 main professor for the business courses. I had her for 8 out of 12 courses! I learned a lot about patience during that time. 

Even large schools have delays. WGU has a 3 day rule for the evaluators, but at the end of the month it's normally 5-7 days. Nothing you can do about it. We just got an email in the College of IT that the evaluators will be unavailable for 5 days as they are all attending a conference. Yup, we complained on Facebook, but there's nothing else we can do except just accept the fact and move on. Life is all about adapting.