<p>Can anyone tell me about your experience at NEU undergraduate online classes? Thank you!</p>
<p>I took an online personal finance class, and honestly, I didn’t enjoy it that much. Each week, we were required to answer a few questions on the discussion forums, respond to each other’s responses, and turn in online homework. Simple enough, but when a course is online, it’s easier to procrastinate and not do any of the work until the last minute. Personally, I’d recommend you to take a class in person, if it is offered, rather than online. In addition, Blackboard was plagued with errors and issues during the semester while I took this course, and oftentimes I could not turn in my homework on time because of these problems. Even the final was screwed up and I had to take it twice. Fortunately, though, I managed an A in the course.</p>
<p>A few of my friends took an online accounting course, and they didn’t understand the material at all. I suppose the professor may have offered office hours for them to attend, but I wouldn’t know–they never went to go see him. However, they also fell prone to the mistake of procrastinating, and they earned much less than desirable grades.</p>
<p>GlassCastle,</p>
<p>Was this a finance course at Northeastern University? If it was, did you fill out a survey at the end of the term telling them about your challenges with the class? Did you use RateMyProfessor to select the professor for this class?</p>
<p>Thank you so much. Your information is well appreciated!</p>
<p>They have surveys (TRACE) for every class you take, and usually I think a decent number of people fill them out. Everyone has access to them on myneu. They are a lot more reliable than ratemyprofessor.</p>
<p>newchimie,
Thank you for the insight. Since I have not been admitted to NEU yet, I do not have access to MyNeu, but I am glad to know that those tools exist. Do you use that tool often, and do you think it has helped you select the best professors?</p>
<p>Sorry, I meant neuchimie.</p>
<p>Lusitano,</p>
<p>Yes, it was a finance course. neuchimie is right–TRACE surveys are taken at the end of each semester for each course you take, but since the personal finance course was a brand new course at the time that I took it, there were no reviews for it at the time. </p>
<p>TRACE surveys definitely play a part in my decision on what classes to take, and they’re definitely more comprehensive and more reliable than ratemyprofessor.</p>
<p>GlassCastle,</p>
<p>It sounds like TRACE is working for you, isn’t it?</p>