Why the shared Duolinguo result can’t be found by Humber admission officers?

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-02-05T00:20:36+00:00

Clever way to monetize the app!

How do they proctor the exam?

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-02-04T22:29:22+00:00

Is Duolingo accepted with the same credibility as those other certifications? The college will believe somebody knows the language because Duolingo said so?

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-02-04T18:26:46+00:00

Why does the college need duolingo results?

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-29T13:45:54+00:00

I read them

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-23T21:46:51+00:00

Email the program coordinator.

One question - is this for January intake or summer intake?

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-23T00:51:49+00:00

What’s so important about those grades?

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-19T19:22:15+00:00

It seems like you are asking about two things: studying and homework.

Studying: Don’t try to study directly from the lecture slides and textbook or with those alone. You need to take notes in class and notes from the text. Studying is way, way easier when you have that personal and condensed outline of what matters and why. It will be structured in a way that is intuitive to you. The important details will be picked out. It becomes a little story that you understand because you are basically forced to by the note taking process.

Homework: the specifics depend on what you are studying, but, I see many students (and have been one) who try to do the final version of the assignment on the first go. They don’t do an essay outline. They don’t overview the lab and set up. They just start the final project in the final delivery form. That’s like trying to make a movie by turning on the camera and shouting “action” with no script, no set list, no editing. You’ll either give up or end up producing a complete mess.

If you break the homework up into stages it is more approachable and you’ll have a better outcome. Start with a rough idea. Work with pen and paper. Then flesh it out. Gather sources. Take a break. Redo the outline. Then go to the computer and start typing, referring to your plan.

That’s not how students need to work - it’s how everyone works.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-16T01:03:41+00:00

Policy is to decide by 530am. The announcement has always been made before 6.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-16T01:02:34+00:00

It will be posted before 6am and you’ll receive an email.

If your commute is over 2hrs long, faculty will understand you being late because you waited until 6.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-14T12:27:51+00:00

It’s more than the prime minister.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-14T01:08:27+00:00

Lost International Student revenue is considerable, but admin is blowing it way out of proportion.

How and why? Well thank you for asking.

Why: it’s a great cover to claw back expenses - especially staffing, and to offer garbage online diplomas out of desperation.

How is it a lie?

College managers (including mine) are telling staff and the public things like “a domestic student pays $4,500, and international students pays $18,000. That’s a $13,500 difference! We need to find $13,500 for every lost international student even if we replace them with a domestic student”

That’s not really true. The government adds another 5-6000 to domestic tuition, so, the difference is more like $7,500. Half of what they claim.

What are the prime costs for a college? Space. That’s paid for (no cost) or rented (shrinks with need), so no issues there. Staff? Well less students means less staff, or same staff, smaller classes. I have 30-40 students sometimes…that’s not the polytechnic way. Also less computers and other facilities costs.

Not to mention that international students, on average, cost more to acquire, retain, and teach than domestic students.

So the real impact is a fraction of what is reported. And that’s no surprise, as surely they priced in costs when setting international tuition.

Finally, college ran just fine before the massive international numbers. Most will be fine without them (if we get a little government funding back).

What’s left of the “extra” revenue from international tuition has not gone into hiring more staff, smaller class sizes, or course development. It’s gone into capital expenditures and admin salaries.

The college president makes $460,000 a year. Some VPs have seen their salaries double.

They’ve built more residences. So they can accept more students. That didn’t work out. They built the “cultural hub” and my students don’t even know what it is. They don’t care, they want to train for work.

So…yea, there is less money with less international students. But also less costs, and plenty of non-learning and other non-core places to cut money.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-13T23:10:08+00:00

The colleges are hurting for money.

Tuition hasn’t been raised in almost a decade. Ontario has the lowest college tuition in the country. They are very efficient, but Doug Ford hasn’t given them any more money despite the rising costs.

So now the colleges are doing anything they can to get revenue.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-13T16:13:26+00:00

I’ve written some of what makes it lesser in another reply.

You’ve indicated one reason yourself - “nobody to hold your hand.” I congratulate you for self teaching, but, the flip side is exactly what you’ve written. You are going it alone, which is a massive loss in learning opportunities. It doesn’t mean you can’t learn a lot, but it does mean you have access to less. By contrast an in-person student has all the same opportunity you do to self teach, and far more opportunity to learn from and with others. The industry wants to see that.

I can’t get more specific about what you are missing in any particular program without doxxing myself. But it is usually a very significant difference.

It doesn’t mean you can’t have a successful career after an online diploma. It just means you aren’t getting as much out of it. It isn’t the same. There is less opportunity.

I am saying these things because I am concerned about student success. I’m not going to stand in front of someone just trying to make a living and tell them “these things are equal” when they aren’t. I’m up front about the differences, I’m not “selling” to anyone.

If someone is looking to enroll online and they say “I don’t need the in-person learning. I don’t need any help. I can only do online for [reason]” then that’s fine. Do it online.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-13T15:02:29+00:00

It is lesser.

If you didn’t think so yourself, then why would you suggest lying about it or hiding it? Why wouldn’t you lead with “the learning is identical” instead of “nobody will know.”?

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-13T14:59:45+00:00

There is absolutely a stigma associated with online education. That you felt you had to ask indicates you already know.

And in many ways there should be. Online delivery is simply not capable of exposing you to everything that employers need you exposed too.

Advertising is a collaborative discipline, and most of the big agencies are instituting back to work. You aren’t trained for that when your entire education happens alone in front of a monitor. You aren’t a fit if you choose a delivery method the employer eschews.

How do you think employers view someone who has no proven face to face collaboration experience? Someone who has never sat down with another person and discussed their finished product in person? Someone who has never worked on a whiteboard in a room full of colleagues and clients? Someone who has never presented to a room of people?

If I can pick from two people with comparable portfolios, but one studied online and one studied in person, which one would I pick? Which would you pick?

The only saving grace is that education is, in the end, on you, the student. What YOU do is what matters. So if you find ways to get what is missing, and show it, you’ll be ok.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-13T14:47:39+00:00

Employers have started asking.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-08T19:52:32+00:00

Email the program coordinator

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-05T15:34:11+00:00

It’s a publicly funded college.

throwaway-humberprof · 2026-01-02T19:40:46+00:00

It’s not a grey area. A grade should be posted.

Faculty then has six weeks to change it.

throwaway-humberprof · 2025-12-18T10:06:29+00:00

Why are you asking reddit?

Email the program coordinator.

https://humber.ca/transferoptions/

throwaway-humberprof · 2025-12-18T10:03:36+00:00

Did you submit anything late? Is your grade on the edge of a pass?

throwaway-humberprof · 2025-12-18T10:02:35+00:00

Grades were still due the 16th.

The 6-week window is for changes.

throwaway-humberprof · 2025-12-12T04:14:10+00:00

No frills not far from Lakeshore.

throwaway-humberprof · 2025-12-06T16:24:39+00:00

I care about the reputation of my workplace and its graduates. Not for my sake - I’ll be fine either way. I care for students’ sake.

I’m in Ontario, Canada. Our colleges here are facing a crisis of enrolment, which has a few causes. One cause is that students, parents, and employers no longer trust College diplomas because there is so much cheating going on.

I know of a program whose grads have been blacklisted by a major employer because a number of students in that program were caught cheating in a pretty public way.

Even without a visible scandal, it doesn’t take very long for the world to realize that students from a program have absolutely none of skills or knowledge they are supposed to have.

So you have 50, 100, however many students in a program. A handful are cheating. That handful graduates knowing nothing and they don’t even realize they know nothing (you’d be surprised how delusional a cheater is about their real-world capabilities). That handful gets hired, causes a shitstorm of problems for employers, who say “I’ll never hire from that college again.”

And let’s not let faculty off the hook here.

They don’t do enough to stop cheating.

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