UMPI Changes / BrightSpace

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Exams Question - Now that it's fall 2023 and Brightspace is in full effect, there's not a lot of information out there. One, I read that with Brightspace exams are going away, can this be confirmed? Two, I read in one of the thread that exams were open book, and people in that thread said to fail the exams so you can cycle through the questions to study everything. I'm not sure where I read this and if it applied to the old Yourpace or new Brightspace. Nevertheless I took this note down and I'm trying to decide if it's relevant to keep. I thought it odd, but since I've yet to start school and it was a popular thread, I wrote it down. I'm starting to save links to discussions so I can go back to them vs just taking notes.

Thanks for the clarification!

The exams weren't open book. And it wasn't the exam questions that one should fail, but the pre-test (or whatever it was called). If you failed the exam, you failed the exam. If you got the pre-test questions wrong, they'd cycle through until you'd seen the whole question bank. This bank was not the same bank as what the exam pulled from, but the questions were close enough to help with studying.

But all of this is moot with the move to Brightspace and the elimination of exams.

Those were quizzes which weren't graded. Not the exams. If you failed an exam, then you failed the course. All of this is irrelevant now because UMPI has completed the move to Brightspace and there are no more exams. Everything is now a paper, PowerPoint, some sort of project, etc. It's all written work and no exams at all.

I'm comfortable with that. I've read in the Discord that people are saying the courses are now much longer, that the milestones alone are sometimes longer then the whole class on the old system, and grading in some classes is taking upwards of 10 days. I'm just taking this all in while I wait until fall 2 starts and I begin for the first term and going back and forth on what classes I should actually take to avoid a mess with higher enrollment and bandwidth issues due to Brightspace growing pains. I applied a month ago and just got told my evaluation should be coming up. I can see in the system they have me down for accounting, I never chose accounting so I've reported that. I'd hate to lose time on a bad evaluation for a degree plan I'm not even going for. I also have 100+ credits through community college, Sophia, Straighterline and my Real Estate, Marketing, CNA and Sub-teaching certificates/licenses. I also made sure to take the 3 classes on Sophia that are considered UL. I'm assuming I'll meet the 90 credit opportunity. I'll be shocked and so bummed if I'm just waiting all this time for bad news.