<p>our school might be offering virtual courses soon. within the next couple years.</p>
<p>has any one heard of such a thing or even done it? my school doesn't offer as many APs as some students want so they let you do them independantly and virtually. </p>
<p>any comments about this? i'd love to hear more.</p>
<p>I'm taking AP Statistics online right now.. the class hasn't really gotten started yet, so I don't have any comments on the quality of online classes, but it's not uncommon for schools to allow such things if schedules don't permit a certain class.</p>
<p>yeah i need to do geometry online to make up for missing it this year. where do you do it?</p>
<p>I'm currently taking AP US History and AP US Gov (my school doesn't offer either one) through apex, and I must say that I'm blown away by the quality that apex offers. The textbooks that apex has selected are really good, and the slideshows that the site uses as a substitute for teachers' lectures are also really good. I will say, however, that it takes motivation on the students behalf to actually learn the material. </p>
<p>Also, the quality that apex offers is not universal--I took a journalism class last year (not for credit) through Brigham Young University that was absolutely terrible.</p>
<p>how much does apex cost? If you want to pm me that information, that's fine.</p>
<p>Thank you very much. I researched their site and it seems to offer a good "Comprehensive Geometry Class" which is what I am looking for. Price will be a factor though so I was just wondering.</p>
<p>I'm taking a class online sponsored by my State. I guess it's good, but it's hard to keep up. I'm just busy with other things. I don't feel prepared for the AP Exam. Maybe it's me or maybe the class.</p>
<p>There are many states have (public) virtual schools. I'm taking class online, and I was also surprised with the quality of the courses. They are really good, at least in my virtual school.</p>
<p>It takes a lot of motivation to complete online classes, unless of course you are homeschooled. But when you go to a regular school, it is hard juggle with your regular classes, your extracurriculars and your online class(es).</p>
<p>Take a look at the services provided by Florida</a> Virtual School</p>
<p>I'm taking AP Psych online this semester through my state's Virtual High School. I also took American Government last semester. I'm pleased by the quality of the AP Psych course and am so far greatly enjoying the ability to go along at my own pace; it has the right amount of work for an online course, IMO, in that I have to work all through my allotted time for it but don't go over it. </p>
<p>The American Government course was a totally different story, though. The "teacher" gave us assignments working off of Wikipedia articles that had been tagged for clean-up or lack of sources, I was one of about two kids who bothered to type properly in the online discussions, and we kept getting pathetic amounts of makework. <em>shrug</em> I would take an online course again if I wasn't graduating this year, though.</p>
<p>Edited to add on to kolom: My state is Georgia, by the way. In my state, there's a program called Directed Study which is available to TAG kids wherein they are supposed to teach themselves about a given topic of interest. I just put Directed Studies into my schedule for that, put "online course in X subject" as my topic of study, and proceed to use the class period to do my online course.</p>
<p>I took AP Art History on FLVS, and I would say it was actually harder than a normal class. That is in terms of levels of questioning. Everything was AP style questions and answers. However, we had more than 1 submission for practically everything so it wasn't too bad. It was rly hard and the biggest problem is that I forgot a LOT of information. I need to review the class everyday starting today lol.</p>