StraighterLineReviews of straighterline.com

No human contact on teaching in addition proctor was horrible! I must retake this class, my experience was horrible.

What I got from this is it's expensive so I would suggest not taking your time on this. The course I took was all based off the textbook. No lessons, no assignments to practice with. 4 quizzes and 1 proctored final exam. Worked out for me to fulfill a last minute prerequisite. I don't think I would take other classes again as I would have to pay for the class and the membership depending on when you finish.

I leverage leveraged claims of discrimination and non-adherence to guidelines several times, with proof, and was severely gaslighted. After I escalated this situation with a BBB complaint, StraighterLine took 2 1/2 months to issue a response that ignored 90% of my complaint. It used my great performance in the course as an excuse to not properly address what I had to go through. It has been an extremely draining process and has taken so much self-advocacy that I will not use nor recommend this platform again.

The only reason I’m giving StraighterLine a 2/5 stars is because ProctorU is a complete PAIN to deal with! If I didn’t have to take proctored exams, I would have definitely gave a 5/5! My problems with ProctorU was the connection, inability to stop the time when technical issues started, and losing connection with the proctor mid exam which caused me to lose time during my test. The connection on my end was excellent because I took the exam in a Nursing school to ensure that I didn’t experience any connection building. I’ve had plenty of classes in this building and never experienced any issues before, so I know this was an ProctorU issue.

The system is clunky and not really clear as to how to submit assignments. They do not really offer support 7 days a week as they claim. When I was able to reach them, they were friendly, but the lack of support during the weekend was very inconvenient. During testing, I had to pay extra both times for proctoring, even though it was ProctorU's fault.

This is supposed to be a sight for learning. However it has been my experience so far that the site itself is buggy at best (performance issues such as spinning when trying to load content, blank screens, technology holes such as non-supported software being used (Flash player) and the list could continue. Moreover, the academic content is less than stellar as well. I have found about 4 examples of unclear questions on tests, where, upon presenting one of them was told by the SME that I should use the available content to find the correct answer (which still gave me the possibility of at least two correct answers based on the scenario given and what was actually presented in the text and study guide), I have two text books available for my current course but the tests are based on the old content (what's the point of learning and being tested on old information), and the navigation between screens is old...has not been updated using more modern technology, leaving the learner with a lot of wasted time waiting for content to load. Clunky is the word I would use. Really needs to be updated all around. At this point I would never use this again.

Not so good at all

In all honesty. this wouldn't be a bad course if all I wanted to do was cheat and get it over with. But I actually wanted to learn the content. and some of the basics were really easy to pick up but mostly everything else was dry and just notes. A tip for change is have the topic reviews of the chapter be a bit more interactive like filling out small numbers. Even if it isn't much just having videos and interactive things can help a lot.