WGU MSCSIA update.

[Merlin]

A lot of people are up in arms about this change in the WGU communities because they either don't like Examity or have had problems with their service in the past and specifically requested ProctorU.

They are crazy.  ProctorU is like torture.  It makes me angry and then puts me at a disadvantage when testing because something ALWAYS goes wrong.  They take forever, every time.  I've had it take as long as 60 minutes, and the shortest time I think was 25, to set up.  It's like reinventing the wheel every time you take a test, and I had the "gold" thing when I was taking a lot, and it STILL took a long time.  I loathe them.  After using RPNow, I can't imagine going back to ProctorU. Ugh.

Examity is pretty much a carbon copy of ProctorU. There are plenty of reports of people having the same kinds of issues with them that people had with ProctorU. If anything, I'd say Examity was even more picky than ProctorU in terms of the testing environment, etc. Neither of them hold a candle to RPnow in terms of convenience or ease of use.

The main advantage that I saw with Examity was that they don't require scheduling exams multiple days in advance. You can generally schedule an exam during the next available slot, which start every hour and half-hour. The next slot might be a few hours away, but it's not like you have to plan things 72 hours in advance. That was the thing I hated the most about ProctorU. Well, I suppose you could schedule using the "take now" option with ProctorU, but that cost more.

That said, I personally never had any major issues with ProctorU or Examity. In fact, the only OLP provider I ever had an issue with was RPnow, but that was mainly because of a software compatibility issue when I first started testing with them. It was because I was using an external webcam on my Mac, which they don't support. Once I switched over to testing on my PC, everything was fine.