What MNomadic said. Just a few additional thoughts about my brief and recent, but pretty immersive, Study.com experience...
I signed up for a month and got through 9 courses (just under the wire). It worked out great. I was planning to “pause” my account for a month and then resume, but I think I won’t need to.
Many of the quizzes were quick and easy for me... but not all of them. In particular, Statistics 101. (I’m terrible at math.) The final, however, ended up being 70-ish% vocab, though. Whew.
For courses without assignments, if you get 100% on all the quizzes, you only need 55% on the final to pass the course. Most quizzes are 5 questions long. You can attempt each quiz as many times as you’d like; however, the best score out of your first 3 attempts is what counts toward your grade.
There’s no reason not to ace the quizzes, because—at least in all the courses I took—if you need it, there is a link to see the correct answers! (This is true of the website, but maybe not for the mobile app.)
As I learned from others on this forum, there’s a fair amount of overlap in lessons among some Study.com courses. If you complete the quiz for a lesson while taking one course, you don’t need to take the quiz again for another course that contains the same lesson.
For me, one of the biggest time-savers was watching the videos at 1.5x or sometimes even 2.0x speed on the site. (I wish the iOS app offered speed controls.) Or sometimes I would skip the video and just skim the transcript, which appears on the page below each video. Usually, the key terms and concepts from the lessons are bolded in the transcripts.
Three of my Study.com courses were upper-level. I picked ones that had just 1 assignment each (a 1,200- to 1,500-word paper, a 1,500- to 1,800-word paper, and a 10- to 15-slide PPT). I was happy that I was able to avoid multi-assignment courses!
Sorry if this is too much info, or if you already knew this stuff. Good luck!
Edit: Sorry, while I was writing this, dfrecore replied and covered some of this same stuff, but, like, way more knowledgeably and articulately. But hopefully I still get a Participation Award?
I signed up for a month and got through 9 courses (just under the wire). It worked out great. I was planning to “pause” my account for a month and then resume, but I think I won’t need to.
Many of the quizzes were quick and easy for me... but not all of them. In particular, Statistics 101. (I’m terrible at math.) The final, however, ended up being 70-ish% vocab, though. Whew.
For courses without assignments, if you get 100% on all the quizzes, you only need 55% on the final to pass the course. Most quizzes are 5 questions long. You can attempt each quiz as many times as you’d like; however, the best score out of your first 3 attempts is what counts toward your grade.
There’s no reason not to ace the quizzes, because—at least in all the courses I took—if you need it, there is a link to see the correct answers! (This is true of the website, but maybe not for the mobile app.)
As I learned from others on this forum, there’s a fair amount of overlap in lessons among some Study.com courses. If you complete the quiz for a lesson while taking one course, you don’t need to take the quiz again for another course that contains the same lesson.
For me, one of the biggest time-savers was watching the videos at 1.5x or sometimes even 2.0x speed on the site. (I wish the iOS app offered speed controls.) Or sometimes I would skip the video and just skim the transcript, which appears on the page below each video. Usually, the key terms and concepts from the lessons are bolded in the transcripts.
Three of my Study.com courses were upper-level. I picked ones that had just 1 assignment each (a 1,200- to 1,500-word paper, a 1,500- to 1,800-word paper, and a 10- to 15-slide PPT). I was happy that I was able to avoid multi-assignment courses!
Sorry if this is too much info, or if you already knew this stuff. Good luck!
Edit: Sorry, while I was writing this, dfrecore replied and covered some of this same stuff, but, like, way more knowledgeably and articulately. But hopefully I still get a Participation Award?
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