Documenting My Journey: WGU BSIT-Security

[rowan555]

Good to hear! My enrollment counselor seemed convinced that I would have, "weekly calls of substance," between myself and my mentor...and that certain courses were simply locked into a list that couldn't be shuffled around.

My son is allergic to bullshit - he was practically breaking out in hives thinking about having to spend 30 minutes a week on the phone with his course mentor when he could be using that time to actually work on his degree. His first call the week of orientation was about 30 minutes long, but then the calls were closer to 5 or 10 minutes long, and by the end of his first month his mentor told him they could begin doing calls every other week. His last call was maybe 3 minutes long. The mentor just has to document that phone contact, so as long as they are confident you are making progress and doing well, they don't want to spend extra time on the phone any more than you do. In addition, if you have to miss a call for some reason there's a little form you can fill out and email which counts as your mentor communication.

One thing which irritated my son was that he wanted to go ahead and put every course into this term since he will be completing everything in this one term. As it was, his 11 courses were spread out over 3 terms, and just seeing that in his degree plan was stressing him out. His mentor stuck with keeping only 4 courses in term 1 but then put the other 7 in term 2. He completed 3 of those 4 term 1 courses then decided he wanted to do some other courses than the 4th in his term 1 list, so he asked his mentor to go ahead and move one into his first term. As soon as he completed that one, his mentor moved another one up. So it's worked out fine, and he's going through things in the order he wants even though at first it appeared there would be no wiggle room.

You can access all materials for every course in your degree plan at any time, but you cannot submit tasks or take assessments unless the course is in your current term and you are enrolled in it. It's a very simple process just requiring an email and a click on the "request approval" button.