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As with any of these credit providers, you gotta learn how to work the system to speed up the process.

1.  The 1st video each lesson is usually the main video, others don't matter much.  Watch all vids 2x speed and take notes!!!

2.  Quizzes are open book and follow the vids pretty closely.  Try hard to average 80% on all quizzes.   Print and save each quiz to review later.

3.  Study for final by reviewing notes, quizzes and any suggested links they give you each lesson. 1-2hr

If you average 80% on quizzes, you only need 51% on the final to pass and with some questions being true/false questions it's almost impossible to fail.

I average 1 hour or less for each lesson.  I find the videos are interesting enough to watch that I can get through a course in 2-3 days without too much stress.

#1 isn't applicable because they don't allow you to adjust the speed on the videos.
#2, they actually don't make it clear on the site whether the quizzes are open or closed book. But even open-book, the quizzes are set up so that you will get things wrong because they are written so poorly. Printing the quiz is a good idea; it's possible sometimes with OnlineDegree, but a lot of the time in quizzes they use JavaScript or some other language that makes it so the screen can't be printed out. Guess you could take a screenshot.
#3, OnlineDegree blocks the quizzes after you take them, so you can't see what they asked, what you answered, or what you got wrong. But you can at least review your notes.

I'm not saying any of this to be whiny, just to reiterate likely reasons that people haven't flocked to OnlineDegree from other providers, even though it's cheaper.

#1 You can use chrome plugin "Video Speed Controller" to adjust speed on non-youtube vids.  Youtube does allow you to adjust speed and you can watch youtube videos in another tab if you want.

#2 The quizzes are not proctored and it is super important to get quiz questions right because they won't tell you what you got wrong.  You don't want to study the wrong quiz answers in studying for the final.  Quizzes make up 50% of your grade. 

I agree some quiz questions can be hard and confusing, but it isn't hard to average 80% on quizzes.

#3 Print quizzes via pdf or print-screen works with last resort of using a camera.  The final exam follows the quizzes pretty closely so printing makes the final easy. 

Comparing Onlinedegree to CLEP/DSST for earning credits I would say they both can take a similar amount of time though Onlinedegree has easier grading system and for me easier to get through the course.