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    WWYD syllabus

    in The College Board

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    So I am looking at it now, and it's not as bad as my son said. It does have a grading scale. It only names the modules and gives no details, but it at least names them. It has course objectives. I think it will be okay.

     

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    WWYD syllabus

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    The school he is likely going to is in state and there is a transfer policy, however for this particular course there is no course mapping in Transferology, and that is where the Assistant Dean of the other school told us to look. The assistant dean there said in the absence of a good syllabus we could provide screenshots or samples of work. 

    The course will not be required at the other university. We were hoping it would come in as elective credit. 

    @Bootsie we emailed the Associate Academic Director for his program at the current (DE) university.  I wasn't sure where to start but she had been able to help with general questions before, so I thought she would know if there was a standard departmental syllabus. 

    I am going to have my son email me the syllabus. It's been months since I saw it so I don't remember all that is on/not on it. 

     

    WWYD syllabus

    in The College Board

    Posted · Edited by cintinative

    I asked about this somewhat previously but I can't find the post.

    UPDATE: I received a copy from my son. It must have been updated from what I saw previously because there are grading sections and nothing is blank. I think we can work from this. 

    My son is in an online asynchronous database management II class as a DE student. When the class started, there was no syllabus posted on Canvas, so he emailed the prof. The prof responded with a mostly empty shell of a document that appeared to be some kind of template (possibly autogenerated by Canvas).  Many parts are blank. It doesn't even have the grading structure. It's basically useless.

    It is looking very likely that we will not be staying at this university for undergraduate, so we will need some kind of syllabus or documentation of what was done in the class. I suggested screen shots, but my son said half of the material in the "course" is not accurate--many of the assignments are never actually assigned.  So the screenshots would not be accurate.

    So he emailed someone in the department to see if there is some sort of standardized syllabus for this course. The department person responded there is not and to email the professor. 

    If you were to email the professor, how exactly would you state this delicately? The syllabus lacks sufficient detail?  

    What do we do if the professor blows it off? Go to the department head?

    Thank you in advance. 

    GI experts- FODMAP and other Q's

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    Is there any blood?

    Could it be C-diff?  

    Have they done a stool capture and culture?

    I had a friend who was diagnosed very, very late for C-Diff.  Her regular doctor blew it off and by the time she saw a Gastro things were very bad. 

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    PSA: check course delivery method

    in The College Board

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    My son has by choice been taking asynchronous classes at the local university as a dual enrollment student. Now that we are actually looking at colleges, we examined the course offerings for his major of choice at this same university and it turns out that 11 future courses aren't even offered in person. There is only an asynchronous section. Others only have one in person and one asynchronous section.  This is really going to influence his college decision, because he has learned from the 11 courses he has taken/is taking that he does not learn what he wants to/needs to from the asynchronous format. He is not getting the feedback that he wants or needs. I wish I could tell you this is a major specific issue, but I really don't think it is at this particular university. The parents FB group is full of parents from all sorts of majors complaining that most of their kids classes are online.  My nephew is also dealing with this at a very large university in FL.  

    My youngest has learning challenges and the asynchronous delivery would not work for him at all. 

    So, learn from us, and check the course delivery method.  Honestly, prior to this, I would not have known to look at that. 

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    Do you do your own taxes?

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    I complete them and use Turbo Tax. My husband is responsible for the read through at the end and confirming my data entry.

    This year has been the first where I felt a little lost. I have two contractor jobs and the instructions were not clear on how to enter things. But I used the Turbo Tax chat feature and they helped me. 

    About a week ago I was knee deep trying to figure out how to estimate my federal taxes for my contractor jobs and it was soooo complicated. So much more than it needed to be.  I really admire those of you who can do the paper forms. 

    Slightly off topic, but I saw an interesting video a month or so ago about how we (Americans) have all sort of accepted that we have to pay for a software to prepare our taxes. If you are interested: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000009030739/irs-intuit-tax-season.html  The original intent, per the video, was for the government to release a free version of something for us to use. Turbo Tax was free for a bit as sort of a measure to fill the gap until the feds got that going, and then it never happened. I don't know, I hadn't really thought of how silly it was that we are all paying to pay our taxes until that.  My kids do use the Turbo Tax free edition, but you can accidentally find the wrong turbo tax site pretty easily. 

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    Does this type of Biology curriculum exist?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    Kolbe Academy has a self-paced honors (and regular) Bio course using Miller and Levine's Macaw book. https://courses.kolbe.org/

    Asynchronous
    PS09BLGPRH

    Our Asynchronous courses offer students a regular set of activities each week, including practice work, reflection and discussion, recorded content, and embedded homework with teacher feedback and guidance. Students are enrolled into penalty-free due date pacing. All grading is provided through a combination of auto-graded, self-graded, and teacher graded assignments. Answer keys are provided for the self-graded activities. Teachers are available for office instruction when needed and teachers submit semester grades upon completion of the term. Opting out of teacher grade reporting and/or due date pacing is possible. 

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    You can get the ebook bundle if you buy a class. It's possible (I can't be certain--you need to check) that there are self-guided notes included.  https://books.kolbe.org/products/online-biology-resource-bundle

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    Workbook or worksheets with an answer key with worked problems to review for calculus?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    Can you clarify--he's a junior (??) and he's not taking math this year? Or am I misinterpreting?
     

    If he hasn't taken calculus before, I would think it is a rare kid who can totally self teach. Some options:

    • Derek Owens (based on Forester but varies a lot from the text in terms of sequence)--self grading is cheaper if you want to try it,
    • Forester with Math Without Borders videos,
    • Larson's Calculus with Cool Math Guy (formerly he was with Chalkdust),  or
    • homemade course: Calculus by Larson and Edwards and Tarrou's Chalk Talk videos. 

    There are lots of other options.  There is a set of Instructional videos for the Larson Calculus. I actually started using that text and I just didn't like the way it was laid out.  It's weird how that works.  😃

    I tried to self teach using only the Forester text.  I am not a gifted math person. I ended up finding videos to match up online (from YouTube) for most of it, but I did get stuck at points even with the answer key in hand. 

    Should I worry about this? Trouble setting up tour of department

    in The College Board

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    1 hour ago, jplain said:

    I'm a rebel.  We've always done DIY department visits, both before and after acceptances.  Going via the official channels, it seems the holdup is usually coordinating with the student ambassador, so we leave that part for last, since it does involve the department admin.  

    I have my student directly email the instructor of one or two classes she wants to sit in on (most colleges have a searchable public course schedule), as well as any profs she might like to chat with.  Then after those two pieces are ironed out, she contacts the dept admin and asks if there's a student ambassador available during the time she's free to have lunch with, tour the LLC, etc. We also check the department and school webpages and social media to see if there are any events or activities that she might be able to attend, like a foreign language conversation table, student presentations, a movie night, club meeting, etc.

    Thank you. I will talk to my son about doing this.

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