Summer Session 1 is over. He has a 97% average before the professor even curves the class (there will be a curve for this class). He did this all on his own with no extra credit.
Each session is only 4 weeks long. The students are only allowed to take two classes (it moves way too quickly to take any more than that).
He has a week off and then he is taking Speech and American Music for Summer Session 2.
Learning Curves for his first semester of college:
- Technology - Holy Cow does this college use a lot of technology. Using Blackboard is a learning curve; figuring out how to submit all of your assignments and use the Message Boards take a bit to get used to. He learned how to create PowerPoints and create charts, graphs, etc. Converting files to different kinds of files was something he was constantly doing. He was able to figure it all out, but the first week was rough.
- Pacing/reading. Because the pace of reading was so fast, he had to learn how to skim/highlight. It was just physically impossible to read that entire textbook in four weeks (and do all the projects, quizzes, tests, etc).
- Advocating for himself/Communicating with the Instructor - there were several issues that he needed to advocate for himself. Two quizzes, which used an online questionnaire format, had glitches to where he would type in the correct answer and the program would mark it wrong. This happened at least twice and he had to contact the instructor and ask for help. She adjusted his scores and told him the program has issues. She was very helpful, but you had to communicate with her first. If you just let it go, it would affect your grade.
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