TESTER Welcome Full-Credit HESEAP Student

Welcome Full-Credit HESEAP Student

Dear Full-Credit HESEAP Student,

Being a full-credit HESEAP student, you will be able to progress quickly toward your degree by verifying your prior knowledge, training, and experience.  Since you have been awarded full CLC “Classroom Learning Credits”, you will not be required to physically attend class, submit classroom assignments, or to take periodic course quizzes. All that is necessary for you to do is to pass a final exam in each subject.

When you enrolled, you selected your degree program, your minor, and your electives.  Many courses have prerequisites; therefore, all the courses must be taken in a predefined order.  Your courses will be presented in three groups.  Group 1 is your core education and degree specific courses.  Group 2 will consist of your minor courses; lastly, Group 3 will consist of your electives. 

Please allow us to provide you with some helpful tips:

1. VERY IMPORTANT: Highlight and print out this pop-up. You will need to reference it from time to time.
2. Courses:
   1. When you select a course from your List of Courses, directly under the course name, you will find a progress bar, and immediately under that, two tabs: [Course] and [Materials].
   2. Select the [Course] tab, and review in detail the course description and Learning Objectives.
   3. Select the [Materials] tab, and carefully review all the materials included in the course. This is vital, as the exam questions will cover the materials listed here.
   4. Many HESEAP also find it beneficial to utilize some of the free college courses and other free education available to brush up so to speak.  Some useful searches https://edx.org, https://coursera.org, https://openculture.com
   5. Only after you have thoroughly reviewed all the information under the [Course] and [Materials] tab and are completely comfortable with the course material, take the final exam.
      1. The Final Exam is open book, most of our HESEAP students find it helpful to open two or three browser pages for reference while taking the final exam.
      2. The final exam is timed, so prior to beginning the exam, make sure you have adequate Internet access and that you have 90-minutes to complete the exam.
      3. Once you start the exam you must complete it in one sitting.
      4. You may not pause the timer.
      5. Failure to complete the exam in 90 minutes will result in your failing the exam.
      6. To take the final exam, click on the exam link at the bottom of the [Course] tab and complete the exam.
   6. You must achieve a minimum score of 66% (Grade: D) to pass this course.
      1. Once you successfully pass the exam, proceed to the next course.
   7. If you scored 66% or below, (whether a result of incorrect answers, losing Internet, or exceeding the time limit), you have failed this course,
      1. If you failed this course or are unhappy with the passing grade you earned, USILACS offers you the opportunity to retake any final exam.  To retake any exam, proceed to the [My Student Account] tab on the main menu and go to [Exam Retake].  From there you will have the option to retake any USILACS exam up to 10 times.

It is our prayer that this information has been helpful to you, and that you have a very enjoyable experience as you progress through your degree program.

We are all cheering you on.  You can do this!

Sincerely,

USILACS Board of Regents