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When you sign on to Straighterline, in the upper right corner you will see your profile, click that and a drop down menu should pop up, click on myline dashboard, and you can continue your progress from there. Also, make sure you allow pop ups, if you have those turned off by default in internet explorer or any kind of flash blocking programs or adblockers, that will interfere with the popups. To turn off your popups go to internet explorer options, the little cog in the upper right of ie, go to the privacy tab and uncheck the block popups box.

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Found an Open Access Microbiology same as the A&P 01: A Brief History of Microbiology

Also, for anyone struggling with A&P, I found a complete online Marieb/Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 9e - that is open access, read that as in FREE! It's not the textbook, rather the online component... even better really. it comes with chapter quizzes, exams, and chapter specific games and puzzles for each chapter and case studies and other study tools. The best thing I found is each chapter is available to read via text and get this, there is an MP3 audio of each chapter of the textbook, as in it is read aloud and labeled for each section AND THE WHOLE THING IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD. You can download the whole text in MP3 audio, and put it right on your ipod, phone, burn it to CD and listen in the car... I am amazed by just this alone.... You can take chapter quizes, then hit reset and take them again and again and again, as many times as you need to.... very very cool. This is not a pirated version of the text, its the online component and its the real deal and its free. Marieb/Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 9e - Open Access And it doesn't matter which text you are using in your class.. A&P is A&P, the concepts are the same.

One more thing I have found invaluable. Each textbook, I should say all modern textbooks have an online component. For the last question about microbiology, I purchased the textbook on Amazon used, fairly cheap, and also purchased the online access through the textbook manufacturer for $25 also purchased on Amazon - which gives you a really neat way to learn the material on the textbook providers website. Their particular method is called Learnsmart. You have to create an account, then you get access to basically a quiz format for each chapter. The website keeps track of your progress, and will direct you to specific passages in the textbook if you start to miss to many questions. There are reports to view to see your weak areas, and the chapter questions and quizes are adaptive, so as you are answering, it starts to figure out what your strong and weak areas are, and it asks questions in the areas you need work in. You can also come back and "recharge" in the areas you have already covered to reinforce material you already know. I firmly believe I learned more from the website and the textbook, than through Straighterline, but as I said before, I don't really think thats the point of the Straighterline program. You are basically paying for proof that you know the material. I am totally sold on the textbook manufacturers Learnsmart program. I also purchased the online access for the A&P I and II book. Found it on Amazon for $5...no kidding... shipped

Well, of course, like everyone else here, I have some anxiety about taking the NCLEX, and i'm a bit of worrier and like to be prepared so when I started looking for NCLEX study material that was available on the web, I really had a hard time finding one place that had everything, and by no means is that what this is, but this is a link to my personal cloud folder and PDFs I have found around the web. These are not copyrighted in any way that I can tell, and i'm sure have been floating around freely for years. So feel free to access the folder and download what you want. If you have any files you think I should add, send them to me and I will upload them to the folder. I will add things I find and keep the folder active so if it goes down, contact me and ill see what happened. One of the PDF's I found here was posted in html text as HESI hints and NCLEX Gems, by JAY DICKSON, so shout out to him, great guide. I copied and pasted it to Word, rearranged things a bit and formatted titles and such to bold certain things and make it a little cleaner as a PDF, but the content is unchanged. I just cleaned it up and converted to PDF. Good luck to you all and I hope you all pass first time in 75! ALLNURSES by DJAR . - 4shared

Exams are open book, only the final is proctored via webcam. Labs are from esciencelabs.com and come UPS, so make sure you have room in your refrigerator. ProctorU does the proctoring, so go there and create an account and make sure your computer and internet connection pass their minimum requirements. I bought my Micro book on Amazon cheap, like $20 cheap, One thing I may add from experience, make sure you know the material inside and out before you plunk down your coin and the clock starts ticking. The exams are really unforgiving of misspellings and missing/different words or mistated answers. Kind of frustrating. An example, I missed a question that asked "What percent of XXX is ?" So I answered correctly, 66%, which was marked wrong. Correct answer? 66 - The % was in the question... seriously. The reason I say make sure you know your material first, is you don't really learn via the powerpoints, I think what the classes are designed to do is prove you have a college level knowledge of the material in question. So way before you sign up, buy the book, read the book, do all the chapter assignments at the end of each chapter, go to youtube and watch every video on micro you can find, go to khan academy. They are FREE. Search Google for Microbiology study guides, you can find a ton of free stuff that way. In short, make sure you are loaded for bear, and then, you can probably finish in 30 days with an A. Remember, it's an A or nothing, you have the option of retaking every class as many times as you need to, you have to pay for it again, but you NEED that A. Also, once you sign up, dont sleep, get busy as soon as you can. Do the lessons, and at the end of each lesson, you can take practice exams. The questions are in the same format that the tests are and you can review your answers after you're done. Also, you can retake the practice exam as many times as you want, and each time the questions are randomized and reworded. So if you cannot consistently pass the pratice exam with 100 percent - theres no way you're getting a 100 on the real test. One other note, you can take the first exam over, like a redo. You have to wait 48 hours after you take the first exam to redo it, but thats kind of nice. There is a learning curve to how they want their questions answered. But after that, when you take an exam its a one shot deal. Good luck

Yeah, not much, but at least it's something. I went online and found the code for first course free, i believe it never expires, so for everybody thinking about trying it out, i always suggest looking up the code, it worked for me.... in fact, I'm actually taking my time with statistics, just to make sure i ace it, not sure that's the best strategy, but I'm still feeling my way through the first half of the course.... One thing i really dislike is the answers on the exams have to be EXACT, like word for word, $ signs, % signs.... Very frustrating to miss a question that asks what percent xxxxx, then get it wrong because i INCLUDED the % sign in my answer, when, since it was in the question, they marked me wrong for saying 68%, instead of 68.... Ugh!!! Other than that, i am learning a lot.... LoL

Well, bit the bullet, and did it. April 8th.... The day I started my prereqs through straighterline.... of course all leading up to the prelicensure program with WGU. I've looked all over for advice, stories, warnings, but at this point, I don't really think anything can stop me from pursuing my BSN with WGU. Hopefully I can knock out my prereqs sooner rather than later. One thing I might suggest if you're scared of pulling the trigger as I was, is to bone up on your math on Khan Academy first. Out of my months of months digging through forums, I only heard about it once, went straight there and was hooked. I have consistently logged on and completed tasks everyday since I found the site. Completing the statistics section gave me the confidence to tackle the straighterline course. As an aside, they also have an NCLEX review, as well as numerous science, and medical courses and they are all free. Oh! almost forgot, if you are considering signing up with Straighterline, LOOK ONLINE for coupon codes when you are ready to "register" pay? Not sure what the terminology should be... They ALWAYS have a coupon active somewhere to get your first course FREE... Can't beat free! Wish me luck!!!