12-09-2025, 11:02 PM
Thank you to SpartacusPM for posting this.
I saw this post just prior to the start of the second 8 week half term. I tried to sign up for the statistics/programming course, but that was full. So I also took MISY 5320 Information Assurance and Security. I kind of watch out for cheap graduate credits in math, tech and a few other areas.
I think that I was actually registered for the course a day or two into the first week. I didn't have the book, so I just did everything looking up questions on Google. It worked for the first week, so I just kept doing this and never bought the book. That said, it seems like there are cheap used copies out there.
There was a slide deck for each week. At the start of each slide deck, there is a list of important terms for the chapters. I copy/pasted this set of terms into chatgpt to have it generate flash cards/study lists. The course is basically a prep for the CompTIA security exam, so that is just basically studying a lot of terms anyway. Prior to the midterm and the final, I printed all of the study sheets and also the weekly chapter quizzes and that was enough to study for the exams.
I was surprised that there was no proctoring for the exams. I was prepared for it and even downloaded what I thought was the proctoring software into my browser. You can tell that the course content was used for more mainstream Lamar courses because the material did include information about proctoring, but there was none.
There were two weekly written assignments each week. These sometimes required 150 words, sometimes 350 and sometimes 400. Sometimes these were vocab lists. Sometimes the questions were about providing advice for purchasing a home security camera or investigating an employee who was looking at dirty web pages. There was also a longer paper that I did some research for and created a bibliography. There was also a discussion board assignment each week and a 20 question quiz.
The professor was kind during Thanksgiving week and allowed for the assignments to be due on the Tuesday afterwards.
I got into the habit of doing one thing for the class each night. It did take some effort, but it was manageable. I think the class wasn't too hard, but it had all of the required elements of what online classes look like these days.
Oh, I also found some card sets on Quizlet that were helpful. Basically, anything related to the CompTIA exam would work. I even think that textbooks for similar courses would work for reading.
I am not sure that I would pay $1000 for this course, but I thank Lamar for letting me take the course and I had a positive experience.
I saw this post just prior to the start of the second 8 week half term. I tried to sign up for the statistics/programming course, but that was full. So I also took MISY 5320 Information Assurance and Security. I kind of watch out for cheap graduate credits in math, tech and a few other areas.
I think that I was actually registered for the course a day or two into the first week. I didn't have the book, so I just did everything looking up questions on Google. It worked for the first week, so I just kept doing this and never bought the book. That said, it seems like there are cheap used copies out there.
There was a slide deck for each week. At the start of each slide deck, there is a list of important terms for the chapters. I copy/pasted this set of terms into chatgpt to have it generate flash cards/study lists. The course is basically a prep for the CompTIA security exam, so that is just basically studying a lot of terms anyway. Prior to the midterm and the final, I printed all of the study sheets and also the weekly chapter quizzes and that was enough to study for the exams.
I was surprised that there was no proctoring for the exams. I was prepared for it and even downloaded what I thought was the proctoring software into my browser. You can tell that the course content was used for more mainstream Lamar courses because the material did include information about proctoring, but there was none.
There were two weekly written assignments each week. These sometimes required 150 words, sometimes 350 and sometimes 400. Sometimes these were vocab lists. Sometimes the questions were about providing advice for purchasing a home security camera or investigating an employee who was looking at dirty web pages. There was also a longer paper that I did some research for and created a bibliography. There was also a discussion board assignment each week and a 20 question quiz.
The professor was kind during Thanksgiving week and allowed for the assignments to be due on the Tuesday afterwards.
I got into the habit of doing one thing for the class each night. It did take some effort, but it was manageable. I think the class wasn't too hard, but it had all of the required elements of what online classes look like these days.
Oh, I also found some card sets on Quizlet that were helpful. Basically, anything related to the CompTIA exam would work. I even think that textbooks for similar courses would work for reading.
I am not sure that I would pay $1000 for this course, but I thank Lamar for letting me take the course and I had a positive experience.
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