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Provider: StraighterLine
Course: Business Ethics
Course content: Uses an e-textbook.
Final exam format: Proctored exam with ProctorU.  2 hours, 60 questions, all multiple choice.  Open book.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: The final only covers topics 10-14, but question styles/content were as expected.
Time taken on course: Other than scheduling my final (around kids/illness) this took me less than a week (and I wasn't working on it full-time).
Familiarity with subject before course: I've not studied ethics before, but...this is ethics.  Some of it is fairly common sense.  (Some, however, is specific to laws, industry codes of ethics, etc.)
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: Some of the questions are worded kind of weird, so I had a hard time finding some of the answers on the final, even with an open-book test.  It's still a pretty easy, passable course.
1-10 Difficulty level: 2

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Provider: StraighterLine
Course: IT Fundamentals
Course content: This is an Acrobatiq class.  Maybe it's just me, but I HATE this format.  It's difficult to navigate and very hard to get a "big picture" view of the content or where your current location fits into that.  This covered everything from the difference between hardware and software to how networks work, to the various roles within the IT department, to "the internet of things."
Final exam format: Proctored exam with ProctorU.  2 hours, 60 multiple choice questions.  CLOSED book.  (No review of answers once submitted, either, like most SL finals have.)
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: I had a rather large delay between my class and my final, but I think these were pretty comparable.
Time taken on course: Other than scheduling my final (around kids/illness) this took me less than a week (and I wasn't working on it full-time).
Familiarity with subject before course: Varied.  Some of this is pretty fundamental if you use a computer.  Some of it was completely new.  Maybe 50/50-ish?
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: It felt harder than it was.  On the final, for instance, I was really nervous that I wasn't managing the roughly 30% I needed to pass the class -- I almost didn't feel like I was even reading questions in English -- but I scored about 67%.
1-10 Difficulty level: 3-4