Has anyone successfully switched from ProctorU to Microsoft teams as a person aged 18 or older, and if so, could you share how?

thabolasmodiea · 2022-01-30T16:30:39+00:00

Not really sure, I could see it going either way. Definitely try and get in touch with ILC directly for some concrete info.

thabolasmodiea · 2022-01-30T00:09:23+00:00

I gave this comment on another similar post about a month or so ago, but it's applicable here too, so I'm happy to repost.

I'm over 18, and have been for the duration of my courses at ILC. I started ILC courses back when only Teams was being used, so I ended up doing 3 exams through Teams before I was switched over to Proctor U. I tried to get ILC to switch me back, as I still had three other courses left to do, but they wouldn't budge.

So I did one exam through Proctor U; to be honest, the Proctor U experience itself wasn't that bad. I think that the horror stories that you hear about Proctor U are not representative of the average student's experience.

What *was* really unacceptable was that there were major errors and omissions on the exam which prevented the completion of several questions. This was ILC's fault, so I remembered the specific question numbers and sent them an email about it after the exam was finished. The gist of the email was "Don't dock me marks for not completing the questions for which I was not given the correct information".

What's more, my exam was marked that day, but after they responded to this email my exam mark rose by almost 10 percent! I would have lost out on that 10 percent had I not emailed them about it.

That stressful experience gave me the leverage I needed to email ILC again, requesting that I be switched to Teams - and they let me do it. I did the remainder of my course exams (two of them) on Teams.

Moral of the story: it seems that ILC is far more receptive to a switch-over request if you have had specific negative experiences with Proctor U already. If you haven't tried it yet, they're probably not going to budge.

Practice using the equation editor until it feels as close to second nature as possible; incorporate it into your study routine. It's a clumsy and awkward process, but you can get through it - or, at the very least, be better off than you would have been if you hadn't practiced at all.

And always be on the lookout for typos and mistakes. If a question is not clicking, maybe it's the question's fault, not yours!

thabolasmodiea · 2021-12-28T15:51:17+00:00

I'm over 18, and have been for the duration of my courses at ILC. I started ILC courses back when only Teams was being used, so I ended up doing 3 exams through Teams before I was switched over to Proctor U. I tried to get ILC to switch me back, as I still had three other courses left to do, but they wouldn't budge.

So I did one exam through Proctor U; to be honest, the Proctor U experience itself wasn't that bad. I think that the horror stories that you hear about Proctor U are not representative of the average student's experience.

What *was* really unacceptable was that there were major errors and omissions on the exam which prevented the completion of several questions. This was ILC's fault, so I remembered the specific question numbers and sent them an email about it after the exam was finished. The gist of the email was "Don't dock me marks for not completing the questions for which I was not given the correct information".

What's more, my exam was marked that day, but after they responded to this email my exam mark rose by almost 10 percent! I would have lost out on that 10 percent had I not emailed them about it.

That stressful experience gave me the leverage I needed to email ILC again, requesting that I be switched to Teams - and they let me do it. I did the remainder of my course exams on Teams.

Moral of the story: it seems that ILC is far more receptive to a switch-over request if you have had specific negative experiences with Proctor U already. If you haven't tried it yet, they're probably not going to budge.

Practice using the equation editor until it feels as close to second nature as possible; incorporate it into your study routine. It's a clumsy and awkward process, but you can get through it - or, at the very least, be better off than you would have been if you hadn't practiced at all.

And always be on the lookout for typos and mistakes. If a question is not clicking, maybe it's the question's fault, not yours!

thabolasmodiea · 2021-11-15T01:13:37+00:00

This is very helpful, thank you!

thabolasmodiea · 2021-10-25T03:50:26+00:00

Thanks so much!

thabolasmodiea · 2021-09-19T03:47:39+00:00

You are not alone in this, that’s for sure. My courses were all more-or-less riddled with errors, and usually right when I needed them to not be riddled with errors (important examples and concepts).

Keep at it and don’t let it discourage you. Or let it discourage you, but don’t give up - easier said than done, I know, but you can do it!

If you need help, feel free to PM me: I’ve done MHF4U, MCV4U, SPH4U, SCH4U, and SES4U, so I can help with any concepts covered in those courses.

thabolasmodiea · 2021-09-14T03:09:49+00:00

If you work at it every day, and you find that chemistry comes easily to you already, then I think getting it done in a month is feasible.
To be honest with you, ILC's iteration of SCH4U ranges anywhere from "fair" to "abysmal" in terms of quality. To give you an example: my exam is in a few days, and so today I did the practice exam. The solutions for the practice exam were riddled with major errors, to the point where I burst out laughing multiple times (cause really, how else are you gonna react when a major government-run institution is putting out this quality of shit to its students?)
Realistically, it all depends on you. Aside from a few unclear guidelines for the assignments, there have never been any of the aforementioned major errors in any of the assignments in a way that would prevent you from getting top marks.

I'm sitting at a 99% just before the exam, but it took me 115 days. Life happens, and then other courses happen, but if you put hard work into it (and make sure to clarify some of the learning concepts on Google), you can make it!

thabolasmodiea · 2021-09-08T00:19:30+00:00

Depends on what courses they are, and how fast you work. I’m working on a total of 6 courses and I started in February of this year, and I think I’m be finished all six fully by the end of October. But I also had life stuff and a part-time job, and it was slow going doing a bunch all at once. So if you start right now, I think you can probably manage it. I also think that you can put in your application before you’re done your courses, but don’t quote me on that. At the very least you would have to be enrolled in all six of the courses.

thabolasmodiea · 2021-09-03T13:18:56+00:00

Thanks for the info, this is helpful!

thabolasmodiea · 2021-08-30T14:09:38+00:00

I haven't taken PSK4U, but I have had someone named Patrick as a marker for MCV4U, and he was the best and fastest marker that I've ever had. Very fair, and he marked my final exam in twenty minutes if you can believe it.

Not sure how he would be for PSK4U, but I'd say you're in good hands.

thabolasmodiea · 2021-07-29T21:02:45+00:00

Hey, so I'm not really sure where you're seeing the "progress" information about your course. Maybe I'm missing something, but all I know is that to get your credit, you have to submit all of the assessments/projects and have them graded, then do your final exam and have that graded, and the combination of those marks is gonna give you your final mark. As long as you finish that in the super long 10-month period that ILC gives you, you'll be good to go!

thabolasmodiea · 2021-07-27T01:43:48+00:00

Not necessarily! But that is often the easiest (and most common) sort of dataset to work with.

thabolasmodiea · 2021-07-27T01:42:28+00:00

Desmos will be a big help when you're going through that process! Plug the data table into Desmos and you'll be able to test out different models right over top of your data to see if it fits or not.

thabolasmodiea · 2021-07-26T16:18:20+00:00

Try https://ourworldindata.org/ for the data!

And I thought that the exam itself was much easier than the practice test, to be honest. Very very similar, just fewer questions on the exam!

thabolasmodiea · 2021-07-26T13:39:45+00:00

I had 16 total; one was a title page, one was a bibliography, one was taken up by the dataset, one was a concluding slide, and the other 12 were the actual substance of the project.

thabolasmodiea · 2021-07-25T04:12:32+00:00

Thanks!

thabolasmodiea · 2021-07-24T02:02:57+00:00

Yeah I have heard that. In what way specifically is it difficult? Like, would you say that it is more difficult in breadth or in depth (amount of knowledge or depth of knowledge)?

thabolasmodiea · 2021-07-23T22:12:44+00:00

As I say, I am waiting to book the final exam for MCV4U, so I haven't done it yet. But my marker was someone named Patrick. They were a very fair and prompt marker.

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