StraighterLineReviews of straighterline.com

The experiments take a lot of my time

Maybe online learning isn’t for me. I’ve taken college Algebra before and never was it this difficult. I also had difficulty getting online w a proctor maybe it was my computer. I’m glad it’s over.

I liked that the courses are affordable and work at your own pace, but some courses were very outdated and convoluted. For example, the accounting 1 course had PowerPoints within PowerPoints and each section had over 100 slides. It was not simple or straightforward. More information doesn’t necessarily equate to a better learning experience if it’s not structured well. Also, even though I would read every chapter within the provided textbook and would study before exams, there would be questions that were not within the exams. Some courses would tell you afterward what page and chapter the answer was in, so you can go back and study it better for the next test, but most of the courses would not provide any clarity about why your answer was wrong. If you never understood why it was wrong to begin with, it can have a negative compounding effect on future tests. I didn’t like the inconsistency between the overall quality of courses. Once you have an paid account, you cannot sample the courses afterward to see if it would be a waste of time or worth investing in.