<p>I just wanna ask those of you who have take online classes in high school, how was it? How hard was it?</p>
<p>My school allowed me to (re)take two courses that I previously took freshman year. The said if I passed with an A, they would give me 10+% on my final grade.</p>
<p>Anyway, I took these two courses over the summer and it was pretty difficult. The courses themselves were not difficult (rocks/geology/planets and freshman English), but I didn’t time my classes well and I ended up doing a month of work in 3 days. No one is there to check-up on you constantly and force you to do things. If you don’t finish on time, you fail.</p>
<p>Anyway, so what I am saying is to budget your time and be diligent and you should be fine.</p>
<p>Yeah, I took AP Env Sci, AP Stats, and Gym online. They were all incredibly easy since I had the power of the Internet to help me with all my assignments and tests.
But yeah ^, it’s easy to fall behind.</p>
<p>I’m taking spanish and AP Human Geo online this year!! I don’t know what to expect!</p>
<p>I go to school online through [url=<a href=“http://www.k12.com/]K12[/url”>http://www.k12.com/]K12[/url</a>]. As a public virtual school student, we a required to have teachers, so perhaps I can’t relate to you guys that much. However, I did most of my work independently and for the most part strayed clear of the teachers, as I’m much better off working alone. I don’t believe anyone can tell you exactly what it will be like unless you tell us the program you are taking them through. For example, I have taken courses from K12 and Advanced Academics, and both are entirely different.</p>
<p>Gym…online…what? How did that work?</p>
<p>Thank you all for your replies ! I’m planning to take classes on Virtual High School. I’m still thinking about it though. I’m going to talk to my counselor about it.</p>
<p>@CalDud I’ve taken a year of gym through Advanced Academic’s program, as K12’s gym program wasn’t accredited. Basically, you had to do x amount of exercise per week, and fill out the types & amounts you did in a “fitness log.” At the end of every week, you would have to turn this in to the teacher as well as answer a few questions. There were also health assignments and quizzes. One assignment was to do a piece on a athlete who had tested for drugs.</p>
<p>Ive taken 2 online courses, (honors?) French I, and honors precal . French was a class taken during school due to the lack of a physical teacher, and I hardly passed with a C. Granted, it was back in eighth grade and I didn’t care a whole lot about my grades. Plus I spent most of the time chatting with my friends, cheating on tests (with google translate) , and I never did any of the work at home. </p>
<p>I just finished honors Pre cal a few weeks ago with an A (93%) and I had a much better experience. I would agree that you need to manage your time because it’s really up to you to do the work, but honestly , an online course is much shorter with a lot less excess then if you were to take it in school.
- no friends to distract you
- tests normally don’t have a time limit (mine did, but nothing happened if you wet over it)
-you can do it at your own pace
-the teacher doesn’t have to slow down for slower students
Etc</p>
<p>I seriously think online classes are pretty much the same difficulty as normal classes and possibly easier. But it does require upwards of 5-12 hours a week depending. (for Pre cal I had to read long lessons about certain problems, in French there were much shorter lessons about different Vocab, just depends)</p>
<p>I’m enrolled for PE, Planning (health), and Social Studies (Canadian history) so I can clear these required courses to take extra science courses. It’s quite easy in my opinion. For languages, it’s a hassle though. Several of my friends took French and Spanish online and the software didn’t work well. I heard that math courses were very easy. For history, there’s a lot of essay writing and I would have liked to have more feedback on how I can improve my essays.</p>
<p>I recommend taking online classes through a county college. Most high schools give you high school credit and your dream school will accept the credits. Staying in state with them is always better, of course. I did it with US II! Thank goodness I did! No AP test for me- I earned my college credit just by taking the course!</p>
<p>I’m taking AP Stats and APUSH through Northwestern CTD. My high school is giving me credit, but I’ve been procrastinating a lot. I’m not really disciplined enough for online classes.</p>
<p>I’m only aloud to take one online class. I’m going to take web design. If this online class thing works out for me, I’ll take some more in the future. I hope it does work out !</p>
<p>Thank you all for replying ! I really appreciate your posts ! =)</p>