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[RachelB]

Provider: Sophia
Course: Workplace Writing II
Course content: Text. Videos.
Final exam format: N/A
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: N/A
Time taken on course: 32 hours
Familiarity with subject before course: I’m pretty good at writing, but I’m not great at research.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: Each touchstone has to be graded before you can submit the next one, which slows down the process a lot! Double-check your citations. I found it easier to do them all manually. These assignments weren’t terrible, just time-consuming. Some of the grader’s comments were very nit-picky, and some of the things they mentioned weren’t actually in the rubric. I had to contact Sophia over it a couple times….
1-10 Difficulty level: 5

How long did the grading usually take? Are we talking days or weeks? (Trying to decide whether taking this course is worth it if I want to keep my membership to 2 months.)

Usually 3 business days, so if I turned something in on Monday or Tuesday, it was usually fine, but otherwise, that time was extended by the weekend, which was frustrating.