Help on Sophia course

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Here are some tips I've learned. On sophia courses, it says that it's open notes for milestones. And they let you link back to the tutorials for that. They give 'milestone tips" of do the practice milestones, have tutorials in another tab/window, and take your time (they give generous 120 minutes). This is similar in style to my community college online courses. That does not mean that you can skip the readings and expect to do milestone tests quickly and do well. But it does mean if you forget a detail you can check it out. Unlike others, I did not print out the pdf files. I used the assignment time to read the lesson and if there was a video, I'd watch it. I learn best hearing and seeing combined. Some of the courses had more than one video option, and I'd select as I went along. Some of them were harder to hear so I didn't use those. and to help learn the material, I would do all three questions on each "concept" even if I got the first one correct and could move on. (that might not make sense until you do a course. or if you have a course under the older format where you get 3 tries on the same question, instead of new format with 3 questions on same concept before moving on). A tip for the practice milestones is to treat those as your study guide. Definitely take the practices and use the links given as a hint to look up material. It becomes your study guide that way. The practices do not count for or against final grading. They are a study guide. Several of my online community college courses have similar approach where there are practice exams with the online text. Hope some of those tips help you with this style of course.