05-27-2017, 01:45 PM
Provider: Straighterline
Course: Intro to Biology
Course content: The version I took was the "Acrobatiq" format. This is 70 modules over 14 topics, so about 5 modules per topic. Each module has a practice test, and each topic has an unproctored practice test.
Final exam format: How many questions? 60 question multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: It was a bit different. Some stuff was out of left field, but a lot of it was similar. Completely different questions (wording/format) than the practice/graded topic tests.
Time taken on course: About 30 hours over 2 weeks.
Familiarity with subject before course: Biology was one of my favorite subjects in school, and one of those things I like to study in my own time. Unfortunately, I was all "go go go" on this so I didn't have enough time to thoroughly study the material. It would have been fun if I hadn't been trying to rush through it.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I didn't really care for the way the course material was presented, pages loaded slow, hard to navigate, just generally bulky in my opinion. Some of the excercises (optional) have you download some java applet from a third party site, that was a little sketchy to me from a security standpoint. I liked the graded topic tests, most of them were almost like a storyline format. Each topic has a graded exam; graded exams are worth 70% of your grade so do well here so you don't have to sweat the final. This is pretty easy to do since a lot of them have the answers within the test. Example: Question 1. What color is the sky? Question 2. Sometimes, whitish blobs obscure the normal blue. What are those blobs? Question 3. What are clouds made of?
1-10 Difficulty level: 6
Course: Intro to Biology
Course content: The version I took was the "Acrobatiq" format. This is 70 modules over 14 topics, so about 5 modules per topic. Each module has a practice test, and each topic has an unproctored practice test.
Final exam format: How many questions? 60 question multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: It was a bit different. Some stuff was out of left field, but a lot of it was similar. Completely different questions (wording/format) than the practice/graded topic tests.
Time taken on course: About 30 hours over 2 weeks.
Familiarity with subject before course: Biology was one of my favorite subjects in school, and one of those things I like to study in my own time. Unfortunately, I was all "go go go" on this so I didn't have enough time to thoroughly study the material. It would have been fun if I hadn't been trying to rush through it.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I didn't really care for the way the course material was presented, pages loaded slow, hard to navigate, just generally bulky in my opinion. Some of the excercises (optional) have you download some java applet from a third party site, that was a little sketchy to me from a security standpoint. I liked the graded topic tests, most of them were almost like a storyline format. Each topic has a graded exam; graded exams are worth 70% of your grade so do well here so you don't have to sweat the final. This is pretty easy to do since a lot of them have the answers within the test. Example: Question 1. What color is the sky? Question 2. Sometimes, whitish blobs obscure the normal blue. What are those blobs? Question 3. What are clouds made of?
1-10 Difficulty level: 6
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