Considering Dropping - 2 classes in.

[Tswede]

Well, I asked if I had dropped the course.  Jessica replied that you can't drop the course if you've started the assessment.

The point is, I *haven't* started the assessment, because I can't.  I don't know how to program in Visual Basic using Visual Studio- how to integrate the project into a database, etc.  It wasn't taught in this course.

I'm livid. That aside, I've asked her how she would suggest I learn this, or to clarify whether simply reading the requirements of the final project constitutes "starting" it.  

Awaiting reply...

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I'm wondering if I should just submit a "failed" project, and simultaneously complete the Google Data Analytics certification to use as an equivalent.  Ugh- all of this wasted time.

Many people have had this issue with this course.  I have seen some students tell about watching Youtube videos to learn it and others saying they got extra help from the professor.  This is a known issue with this course and the issues with the MIS course are also known and discussed frequently.  Students have to just do the best they can, ask for help, get outside support.  It is really inappropriate that these courses are both so poorly written.  They will hopefully be fixed in the move to Brightspace but for those of us doing them now, we have to find ways to work around the issues.

If you can't drop it, then watch some youtube videos and talk to the professor.  The professors don't write the material, they are teaching what was written before them.  Sometimes they have ideas and solutions to these kinds of problems.