Straighterline New Proctor Policy Change

[IrishJohn]

Well it's not as competitive with CLEPs and DSSTs now, depending on how you do it.

CLEP: $80 + about $20 for proctoring — That's $100 (about $33 a credit hour). 6 credit exams -- about $17 a credit hour!
DSST: Same thing, $80 + $20 = $100 (about $33 per credit hour).
SL before (1 course per month): $99 + $39 = $138 ($46 per credit hour). *With code: $99 total ($33 per credit hour)*
SL before (2 courses per month): $99 + $39 +$39 = $177 ($29.5 per credit hour).*With code: $138 total ($46 per credit hour)
SL now (1 course per month): $99 + $49 = $148 (about $49 per credit hour). **With code (if continued): $99 total ($33 per credit hour)*
SL now (2 courses per month): $99 + $49 +$49 = $197 (about $33 per credit hour). **With code (if continued): $148 total ($49 per credit hour)
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*There is a code(s) out there that allow the first course which would shave off $39. Not sure if they're going to continue to implement this but if they did it'd be slightly more competitive. [/COLOR]
**If they still offer a code that will take the first course off then the total will be deducted by $49.

*Notice: If they do continue the code (or codes) that allow for that discount, then the price for 1 one course completed in one month stays the same. This would wave the additional proctoring fee. If this was the case then it may be best (if you're going to do SL) to do it month by month. Sign up using discount, do course, cancel in under 4 weeks (billing period is actually 4 weeks not a month). Sign up again using discount, complete another course, cancel, and so forth. You could even take a month in between and work on a CLEP or DSST so that you don't look too suspicious. Not sure if this could or would work, but it's a thought all the same.

Exactly the point I was making at DF Wiki, since it was supposed to be about helping other DL students, that is before SL hacks apparently got to Wikia to lock their page with their own sales pitch for their service. It's cheaper to take a course through something like Saylor.org, use InstantCert and/or Free-Clep-Prep.com and then take the CLEP or DSST. Those exams are transferrable to hundreds of more colleges and universities than anything SL currently offers. Even if ProctorU will allow folks to take SL exams at a library computer, an improvement over what we were previously told, I see no advantage to taking an SL course instead of the CLEP or DSST exam. For all of them you will still have to take a proctored exam, definitely outside of your home for CLEPs & DSSTs or possibly in the case of SL unless you allow ProctorU access to your personal computer. Less money and hassle to just take the CLEP or DSST exam in my opinion.