Provider: Sophia.org
Course: Introduction to Psychology
Course content: Course is delivered in a combination of text and/or video. You can choose from 2-4 different instructors who deliver the same content is a slightly different way via video lessons. You can "favorite" an instructor to have their lessons show up by default. Select the "Sophia Tutorial" as your favorite instructor if you want the text to show up by default. There are 6 units, each unit has a three quizzes (called challenges) and 1 unit test (called a milestone). The combined score of these 4 items must be 70%. I’m not sure what happens if your score falls below 70%. There is one final exam at the end that is proctored only for identification. You do have to score at least 50% on this 25 question exam. This exam is MUCH more difficult than the unit tests (milestones). The 25 question milestones only took me 25 minutes to complete, the 25 question final exam took almost the entire 90 minutes to complete.
Final exam format: The final exam is proctored by ProctorU. This timed exam is for ID purposes only and you only need to score 50% but the score does not count towards your final grade. Proctor fee is included but you must schedule 72 hours in advance. You can pay $5 or $8 to schedule in a few hours of immediately if a proctor is available.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Being open book the questions are very specific to the reading but they use different language that does not appear anywhere in the text which means you can’t search the text lessons for the answer. The questions could be in any of the 6 units so there is lots of clicking back and forth and scrolling to search for an answer. Final ID exam is made up of restated questions taken from the milestone questions you have previously answered correctly.
Time taken on course: 1 Week
Familiarity with subject before course: There is crossover from biology, information literacy, and sociology.
How would you have scored in the final with no preparation? 40%
Things others should know: You are allowed 1 page of handwritten or typed notes. However, the notes can not contain questions or answers from milestones/quizzes. I use my notes page to write down the outline of where things were in the course to save time clicking back and forth between the units. The interface is pretty but there are some annoying flaws- the neverending scrolling back to the top to click to the next page and the bouncing back and forth to different units gets tiresome.
1-10 Difficulty level: 4 for content, 7 for exam wording trickery
Personal review: This was my favorite Sophia course so far, and maybe even my favorite course/exam of all I have taken. The course content was really interesting and the pacing of the video instructors were just the right speed versus some video lessons on other platforms that I find need to be sped up 50%.
Take the free "Organizing Teams" course (or another Sophia course) and you will get a $50 coupon towards your next course.
Course: Introduction to Psychology
Course content: Course is delivered in a combination of text and/or video. You can choose from 2-4 different instructors who deliver the same content is a slightly different way via video lessons. You can "favorite" an instructor to have their lessons show up by default. Select the "Sophia Tutorial" as your favorite instructor if you want the text to show up by default. There are 6 units, each unit has a three quizzes (called challenges) and 1 unit test (called a milestone). The combined score of these 4 items must be 70%. I’m not sure what happens if your score falls below 70%. There is one final exam at the end that is proctored only for identification. You do have to score at least 50% on this 25 question exam. This exam is MUCH more difficult than the unit tests (milestones). The 25 question milestones only took me 25 minutes to complete, the 25 question final exam took almost the entire 90 minutes to complete.
Final exam format: The final exam is proctored by ProctorU. This timed exam is for ID purposes only and you only need to score 50% but the score does not count towards your final grade. Proctor fee is included but you must schedule 72 hours in advance. You can pay $5 or $8 to schedule in a few hours of immediately if a proctor is available.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Being open book the questions are very specific to the reading but they use different language that does not appear anywhere in the text which means you can’t search the text lessons for the answer. The questions could be in any of the 6 units so there is lots of clicking back and forth and scrolling to search for an answer. Final ID exam is made up of restated questions taken from the milestone questions you have previously answered correctly.
Time taken on course: 1 Week
Familiarity with subject before course: There is crossover from biology, information literacy, and sociology.
How would you have scored in the final with no preparation? 40%
Things others should know: You are allowed 1 page of handwritten or typed notes. However, the notes can not contain questions or answers from milestones/quizzes. I use my notes page to write down the outline of where things were in the course to save time clicking back and forth between the units. The interface is pretty but there are some annoying flaws- the neverending scrolling back to the top to click to the next page and the bouncing back and forth to different units gets tiresome.
1-10 Difficulty level: 4 for content, 7 for exam wording trickery
Personal review: This was my favorite Sophia course so far, and maybe even my favorite course/exam of all I have taken. The course content was really interesting and the pacing of the video instructors were just the right speed versus some video lessons on other platforms that I find need to be sped up 50%.
Take the free "Organizing Teams" course (or another Sophia course) and you will get a $50 coupon towards your next course.
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