New Study.com courses (5/16/19)

[quigongene]

https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees.html 
I wonder which of the study.com courses they would accept

Any of them that are ACE accredited and are relevant to the degree in question.

[darthweezy]

Do we know which of the new options come in as Upper Level courses yet?

[dfrecore]

Do we know which of the new options come in as Upper Level courses yet?

It's on my first post.

[darthweezy]

My apologies!

[saraholson]

I have never been in a situation before, where Study came out with new courses that were relevant to my degree... so this is a new experience for me, and i must admit i am a bit lost... how are we meant to get these courses approved for our degree plans at tesu when the advisors claim tesu does not accept them? Does Study have to have some kind of written agreement about the new courses with TESU first, before they are accepted onto degree plans? The answer i have seen crop up in the forum is 'you just have to take it and see what it transfers in as' but i simply don't have the free time or money to take courses which may or may not be accepted can anyone shed light on this conundrum? thank you all so much

[posabsolute]

@saraholson , unfortunately it’s the way it is, TESU cannot tell you before one person transfer in (and even then, advisor sometimes won’t tell/know if it’s new) and they can’t preventively evaluate all courses from all providers..

While TESU has a business relationship with SDC, it’s ACE that decide if the course is college level, what level and where it should somewhat fit.

So you will have to wait for someone here to report on it, or that sdc work out with tesu equivalency.


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[dfrecore]

I have never been in a situation before, where Study came out with new courses that were relevant to my degree... so this is a new experience for me, and i must admit i am a bit lost... how are we meant to get these courses approved for our degree plans at tesu when the advisors claim tesu does not accept them? Does Study have to have some kind of written agreement about the new courses with TESU first, before they are accepted onto degree plans? The answer i have seen crop up in the forum is 'you just have to take it and see what it transfers in as' but i simply don't have the free time or money to take courses which may or may not be accepted can anyone shed light on this conundrum? thank you all so much

TESU does have a partnership with Study.com, but it will be some time before they evaluate those courses (it seems to be behind by maybe 6 months).  Also, the advisors aren't up-to-date on when courses get approved through ACE, so they may not even know that they're ACE-approved at this point - they may be using old data.

So, for someone who can't afford to take the courses and hope (although I give these a high degree of certainty in getting accepted), your best bet is to wait to see what's reported back.  There will be several people who have been waiting for the CS courses to get approved, and will probably be sending them through soon.

[saraholson]

I have never been in a situation before, where Study came out with new courses that were relevant to my degree... so this is a new experience for me, and i must admit i am a bit lost... how are we meant to get these courses approved for our degree plans at tesu when the advisors claim tesu does not accept them? Does Study have to have some kind of written agreement about the new courses with TESU first, before they are accepted onto degree plans? The answer i have seen crop up in the forum is 'you just have to take it and see what it transfers in as' but i simply don't have the free time or money to take courses which may or may not be accepted can anyone shed light on this conundrum? thank you all so much

TESU does have a partnership with Study.com, but it will be some time before they evaluate those courses (it seems to be behind by maybe 6 months).  Also, the advisors aren't up-to-date on when courses get approved through ACE, so they may not even know that they're ACE-approved at this point - they may be using old data.

So, for someone who can't afford to take the courses and hope (although I give these a high degree of certainty in getting accepted), your best bet is to wait to see what's reported back.  There will be several people who have been waiting for the CS courses to get approved, and will probably be sending them through soon.

Thank you so much. I guess I am curious, for those people who DO submit the courses to TESU and wait to see how they come back...what happens once they submit them to TESU? Is there some kind of formal evaluation process that sets a precedent for what that course comes in as?

[armstrongsubero]

We just have to wait and see. I sent a request for the intro to programming, when it comes back I'll post it here then after some time TESU will put it on their page.

[bjcheung77]

The courses are so new, someone will have to complete a few of them and submit it for review/transfer evaluation. I think it will take at least a couple weeks to three/four weeks until we will know which courses go where or what their evaluation comes up as.

I think it took about a month or so for the Onlinedegree.com courses to be evaluated and they were "re-evaluated" again a month or so later... My Advice: Take the courses you know that will transfer into the degree and complete the others that are not evaluated yet (but leave the final/assignments untouched).