Study.com pros & cons

[Merlin]

I just enrolled on study.com and completed my first course and it is taking time for me to adjust to this  platform. I am used to more traditional courses, that generally have a textbook and I take a ton of notes. 

Already this last course I took on SL was Acrobatiq without textbook and found it a little frustrating.

I find your perspective interesting since most of the things you point out I see as plusses, not negatives.

One of the big things I hate about traditional college courses (and SL to some extent) is that they make you read a textbook where only like 25-50% of the material is relevant to the course and the rest feels like fluff added by the author to pad their word count to drive up the price of the text. So you're forced to read and take copious notes and try to make an educated guess on what is or is not important.

SDC, on the other hand, focuses only on material that is directly relevant to the courses and covers what you will be tested on. While you may not learn a subject as broadly as you might from reading a textbook, you are likely to remember more of what you learn because of the teaching style and there is less material to focus on so you should retain more. At least in my opinion.

But being completely new to study.com I found this platform most frustrating, to start with when you unenroll the course won't restart from zero, I wish there was an option.

Why would you want this? One of the big reasons you can accelerate with SDC is because once you take the quizzes you don't have to take them again when you find courses that overlap with ones you've taken before. This means you only have to focus on the new information. You can go back to review old work, but you don't have to unless you want to. Not having to review things you already know and take quizzes on them again saves SOOO much time.

In fact, this is one of the acceleration tips we give people. For your GenEd's take a bunch of courses that overlap so each course after the first one ends up with less and less new material to lean. I ended up taking most of the Psychology courses on SDC for this reason. I also happen to enjoy Psychology, but it worked out well for me.

The best of 3 on quizzes is not viewable, the score is hidden from the student. Unless I am missing where to view the real time score. Otherwise it says all 5/5 100% 
I am used to have a real time idea of my progress. Do not need a feel good score that is not the real final one.

If it says 5/5 that means 5/5. I don't think the 3 test limit is actually in place. But then again I am pretty sure I never had to take an exam more than twice so I don't think I ever hit that limit.

Third and last frustration is the quizzes that are shared among different courses and show already completed when I haven't even started a course, not giving me the chance to better my score nor giving me the option to say no I want to start this course from scratch.

Is there a reset time from unenrollment that makes the course go back from start ?

See my point above about why this is a good thing. This means you can come back after having taken courses and complete related courses and not be stuck having to retake material you already learned.