12-27-2023, 08:35 AM
I'll add my recent experience with this course. I took English I at Sophia and found it fairly easy, the writing assignments were interesting, and I enjoyed it. Then I enrolled in English II. First Touchstone was great; I got an A. Second Touchstone, I received a 50, reset it, and did it again. The graders are very inconsistent. If one tells you to change something about your essay, another will take off points if you change it. Even if I got the same grader for a draft and then a revision, changing what they told me to, the final essay would have completely different feedback. I'm guessing they grade so much that they can't remember how they graded your paper and what they asked you to change. I followed the rubric, and I still prayed every time I opened up a graded Touchstone. However, if I got a bad grade, I just had a learning coach reset it through the Chat feature, and I corrected it and resubmitted it. Managed to pass it with an A after 3 weeks of writing.....got my final essay grade 1 day before my subscription ended.