<p>This summer I am thinking about taking an online english class online. Has anyone attempted this? How difficult is it? It is from June 11th-July 29th. This would be my first college class....</p>
<p>it's not hard. i'm a high school senior taking 4 AP classes (Gov/Econ, Calculus, English Literature, Spanish) + Physics and i'm capable of taking 3 online courses (Microeconomics, Nutrition, Communication). Plus i play sports after school all year long so the earliest i get home is 5.</p>
<p>Personally, i think online classes are a lot easier than actually going to class. you can get on whenever you feel like and it isn't a certain time. so one day, you can get on in the morning and the next day, you can get on at night or don't get on at all and just get on the next day. it's all up to you. </p>
<p>i'm also consider doing one this summer.. it just depends on what the school offers this summer. </p>
<p>I haven't taken an online english class yet, but i doubt it's that hard.</p>
<p>I've taken many online courses but I would not personally take an English class that way. There's lots of peer editing and discussion. I guess it also depends on what type of class it is. Is the focus on literature, composition or both? </p>
<p>Online courses can be more time consuming than you think and summer classes in general move quickly. If possible, I would e-mail the professor(s) to get an idea of the workload before deciding.</p>
<p>I am currently taking an online english comp 1. We don't have any peer editing (my friend at another school does), but we do discussion boards, a few quizzes, and lots of essays. </p>
<p>I really enjoy my class and I'm hoping to take english comp 2 online over the summer. I think that the reason I enjoy it is because some of the essays are personal and I like not having direct contact. I really don't see the point of taking an english class online because I don't think there is much to learn. We get reading assignments from our book, but I never read them and I've done fine.</p>
<p>The only problem with taking that class would be that it seems very short and you'd probably have an essay due in short periods of time. Yours might be due weekly unless the teacher doens't assign many.</p>
<p>Before signing up for it, you might consider:
1) if you need lots of help from teachers when writing an essay because it can be hard to see them during summers (i've had them out of the country or only in their office from 7:30-8:30 am).<br>
2) how long it takes you to write an essay--if you need a long time, you should probably take it over a full semester
3) are you good at keeping up on due dates, are you going to do a lot of traveling--these can make it difficult to get good grades on responses to various assignments</p>
<p>Last year I took online French 3 and macroeconomics and right now I am taking online AP French. </p>
<p>So far the only decent online teacher I've had was my French 3 teacher. My economics teacher didn't grade any of my work until the class was over and gave me a B for no reason (I did well on the majority of the tests). I had to talk to administration and explain the situation to them in order to raise my grade. The economics class was also very old and asked questions such as, "how do you think the economy will be affected by the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis?" </p>
<p>In my current French class, it is more of a self-study than anything. I still do all the assignments, but none of them have ever been graded. (I probably should have emailed administration about this, but never did as it isn't affecting my grade at all.) Also, the teacher never answered a lot of my questions in the beginning but does now. </p>
<p>As for easiness, the economics wasn't too hard but online french is difficult. It mostly depends on how difficult the subject matter is for you and how much time and effort you want to spend on the class. If you have a bad teacher, it shouldn't really add to the difficulty of the course since the material to learn is all on the website, unlike a typical school where much of the material is learned from the teacher.</p>
<p>Most online classes also require Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer. Oftentimes, if you don't have the right version of Internet Explorer the class won't work.</p>
<p>@ AHeartLikeHis</p>
<p>If you want to take an online or correspondence class, make sure your undergraduate school accepts the credit. My school would not accept online course credit.</p>
<p>english is fairly conducive to online studying, since most of it is reading and responding to texts. I had an online class that basically consisted of turning in four essays throughout the semester. If you're a good self-motivator it's great</p>