SUMMARY:
Time to complete course: November 1st - December 18th
Task 1: 7 pages, 3rd attempt
Task 2: 12 pages, 2nd attempt
Task 3: 14 pages, 1st attempt
TIPS: Can not stress enough to read the scenario and course mentor tips CAREFULLY! Doing this will help allow you not to have to do any revisions.
November 8th, 2015
I originally started out with the Risk Management course but the school suggests a specific order to take the courses in, so I followed their recommendation. Instead I'm now in my first class, Current and Emerging Technology (LYT2). I started the class a week ago and I've already completed 47% of the class! I must say though, the first chapter out of a book that they have you read, I thought I may have to quit, that I was in over my head. It was very dry and hard to follow, reading instructions on how to set the time on a VCR would have been better. However, after I finished the chapter and moved on, chapters from other books and articles have been pleasant to read.
One issue I ran into is that I have my first task done (Friday), a paper that's a response to an RFP, however, I can't submit it as there's an issue with my TaskStream account. I'm hoping that this issue is resolved so I can submit it tomorrow (Monday). The nice thing is that this isn't holding me up at all as I just went ahead and continued diving deeper into the course material.
November 10th, 2015
Finally gained access to TaskStream yesterday but I'm just now submitting my paper tonight. After a few reviews, I realized that my paper was lacking content. I ended up adding 3.5 more pages, with graphical examples of my solutions to the RFP. I just uploaded it and sent in to TurnItIn. I'm hoping to have it reviewed by TII in the next hour (I'll check after tonight's episode of The Flash...). After that, I'll hit the fancy submit button and see if I can pass the task on the first try! Fingers crossed!
Oh, and I'm now 58% complete with the course. My goal is to complete the course by the 23rd...13 days left...well..12 pretty much!
November 12th, 2015
Now 74% complete with the course. I could have been done with the reading and on to the last two tasks, but I haven't done too much the last two days as I've been under the weather. My first task got returned today, after almost 48hrs since I submitted it. I had to revise 1 out of 6 objectives, which wasn't bad. I wrote an additional page and half, better explaining the decisions and submitted it again. Not expecting to find out the status for another two days. I really like that they show you the position of your paper in the line to get reviewed. The first submission, I was #90, new submission was #101.
My second weekly call with the mentor was tonight. It lasted almost 20 minutes because I had a couple of questions. I expect future calls to be about 5 minutes.
I should have all reading done for the course by Saturday and take all of next week to complete the last two tasks. I originally wanted to complete the class in two weeks, but there is a lot more reading than I thought there would be....and I hate reading....so three weeks is the new goal which half the time the expect you to complete it in.
November 27th, 2015
I took a couple week break from WGU as I got discouraged from Task 1 being sent back twice. After the break, I took a deeper look into the task area that I was messing up on and finally figured out where I was going wrong. I started from scratch on the one area, finished and resent it in. Two days later I woke up to an e-mail saying that all area goals were met and Task 1 is now finally complete. My original goal was to complete the course in 2-3 weeks, but now I'm looking at 5 weeks. I've finished all the reading and just have to sit down and work on Task 2 and Task 3. I'm hoping to complete them both over the next week and move on to the next course.
Task 1: 7 pages long. Accepted on 3rd attempt
December 9th, 2015
I'm disappointed to say that I'm further behind that I wanted to be. I wanted to have this class completed several weeks ago, but I'm a huge procrastinator, haha. I just submitted Task 2 tonight and don't expect to hear back for about 48hrs as usual.
December 12th, 2015
Task 2 sent back for revisions for just one section. Wrote an additional page and half to add more information and clarify my previous response. Task 2 resubmitted and now on to Task 3.
December 13th, 2015
Task 2 Accepted!
Task 2: 14 pages long counting a cover page and 2 pages of citations. Accepted on 2nd attempt.
December 15th, 2015
Task 3 submitted. Fingers crossed.
December 18th, 2015
Came out from seeing Star Wars (awesome), to see I have a new e-mail....Task 3 passed with no revisions needed! Wow, I'm honestly surprised! haha. I hated this task because I felt it lacked a wealth of information about the servers that would help better write the paper (help to figure out actual visualization requirements). In the end, it didn't matter, I just did what was asked by making up some BS here and there and they dug it.
Task 3: 14 pages long counting a cover page and 1 page of citations. Accepted on 1st attempt.
COURSE COMPLETED!!!!
