On Line Summer Courses BYU

Futureholds · 01-08-2009, 11:34 AM

Local private high school offers on line classes from BYU. Has anyone had experience with these? Is the credit transferrable to most colleges? How goo dare the classes? Worth the money?

anneroku · 01-08-2009, 11:58 AM

My oldest took Psych 101 several years ago and it was excellent -- it covered the same material I had years ago at an Ivy. The credit was accepted at our flagship state university.

I'm not sure what you mean about a "local private high school" offering these classes. BYU's online classes are available to anyone with an internet connection. The price was better than other programs we considered, but not as low as our local community college (where my kid also took some great online programming classes.) We went with BYU for the Psych class because the professor had strong credentials (a PhD) and the textbook looked very good.

BunsenBurner · 01-08-2009, 12:42 PM

My D's public school accepted BYU health and fitness courses for fulfillment of state graduation requirements, and many kids chose that option so they could fit more academic classes into their schedules. The two HS classes D took were informative. I'm not familiar with their college-level offerings.

anneroku · 01-08-2009, 12:51 PM

Sorry, I was referring to BYU's online college classes, which my child took during high school. If they offer high school classes, I'm not familiar with those.

ucsd_ucla_dad · 01-08-2009, 03:13 PM

My D took some gardening (or something similar) online class through BYU in HS to get rid of a required practical arts course without messing up the opportunity to take more AP courses. I remember that the process was smooth and the cost not too much. Also, her public HS accepted the credit and in fact had recommended BYU to us in the first place.

ebeeeee · 01-08-2009, 03:16 PM

Kids in our area used to use the BYU online stuff to cover something they did poorly in during the regular year. We had a notoriously bad AP Physics teacher at our HS.
My understanding was that some of the college stopped accepting these credits and that some high schools would not use the "new" grade of an online course to replace a D or F on the high school transcript.
YMMV, check with the individual high school and perspective colleges.

siliconvalleymom · 01-08-2009, 03:25 PM

You may also want to ask this question on the homeschool section, since some families use BYU online classes as part of their homeschool program.

arabrab · 01-08-2009, 04:59 PM

D took an on-line PE course through BYU, and it was both reasonably priced and quite a bit of work. Not hard, but you definitely needed to put time in. It gave her the flex to take a second foreign language, and we really appreciated that.

H took a college-level accounting course through BYU online, and it was substantially more detailed and in-depth than the one I took in grad school. The big downside was that the whole course was delivered through on-line (or via DVD) lectures which took a truly amazing amount of listening time. Frustrating when you knew you could have read the material in a textbook much more quickly. He did get his money's worth.

Karen Colleges · 01-08-2009, 06:45 PM

D is thinking of taking a BYU online course for a HS math credit. Anyone have any experience with math, online?

ucsd_ucla_dad · 01-08-2009, 07:00 PM

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D took an on-line PE course through BYU

Do they test you on mouse-click reps?

coureur · 01-08-2009, 07:07 PM

>>My D's public school accepted BYU health and fitness courses for fulfillment of state graduation requirements, and many kids chose that option so they could fit more academic classes into their schedules<<

Same for our school.

calgal · 10-25-2009, 07:28 AM

Is anyone familiar with their American sign language or Spanish high school level offerings?