Bellevue College

This college is all about $$$ and figure it out your self or for ever hold your breath. By the end of my 5 yr AA degree I am super frustrated with this college and desire zero return with this college. It was slow because I paid for it out of pocket and only did 2 classes a quarter. Not every quarter. I'm an online only student to the highest degree possible. The college encourages cheating to pass classes and if done right no one knows. Please keep in mind that this could also get you expelled or fail if you get caught. Your average smart person knows how to use the resources allowed to cheat a little without getting caught. Please, students have been doing this for decades and the internet can teach you how. If you struggle writing they have programs that can write for you and all you need do is but proof read them. This greatly helped my paper grade. The online classes are quickly disappearing after covid and opened up new classes that never saw the light of day for online. Some teachers know canvas well, while others it is clear they slapped classes together last minute. If online tests are not proctored, you can easily use your phone or tablet to cheat and ace the test. I can't tell you how many online english classes I've aced because the answers could be found on quizlet. Please stop using youtube vids for teacher. They are not academically approved material. Regardless of how well written they are. Some online teachers are wonderful and awesome while others are present at start of course then disappear until the next major date and cram grade last week. I'm sorry but online teacher should be taken seriously. It's not a vacation from work while still getting paid for it. Every other quarter I have one class dropped. Due to not full attendance. This is annoying and has added on several quarters until my graduation date. I should of finished two years ago but because of this garbage it dragged it out. This has always been an issue. Even when I originally attended b.c. After high school. Book store. Please every one knows that the book store college books are over priced. I highly recommend students to go to the manufactures website and rent a copy at a fraction of the price for the duration of your course. Never buy directly through b.c.'s book store as they jack up the price as much as 1,000% especially if you're on fasa. And I am not kidding. Not on fasa your books will be marked up to about 60% above cost. Just use the isbn and buy from another reputable source like amazon (if reasonably priced). Their prices have steadily increased over the decades and they use to offer discounts for online classes but are now the same price as on campus classes. The math program is ridiculously difficult to pass. I have had to withdraw and try again with different teachers. Some teachers are so difficult it's literally a fail. Each course I've had to request additional testing time due to my slow learning. 60 min is insufficient for most people to pass tests. Especially if you have to average 30-60 seconds per each question. Teachers find ways to lower your grades intentionally and this is very annoying and generates distrust in students to teachers. Aleks is a horrid math program and encourages failure. It has zero clue what it needs to teach students for. It generates an algorithm based on pass/fail answers. The program is full of errors, holes, programming errors, and leaves out material that would of been nice to relearn for the test. It is a horrid grader and often leads the user to much frustration. Old math new math it shouldn't matter you get the same answer. I was taught old math and teachers have accused me more than once I was cheating with calculators. When old math is faster, makes more sense and can be done mentally. Aleks teaches you the bare bone basics of math and the more advanced math equations on the test is up to you to figure out. It often is confusing in what it is looking for in the way of an answer. This leads to heavy frustration and cussing at the program. I frequently got stuck in sections for longer than anticipated. There are too many friggen knowledge checks and has screwed me over more than once in getting a 100% on assignments. Or has held me back in continuing because I didn't want to be forced to cram more in a time frame that was insufficient for me. It is cold hearted when grading for tests. Teacher manually re-grades them and I often go up about 20-30% in score because it is not lenient in little errors. Or you accidentally carried it too far. Or made a typo. I am beginning to appreciate paper tests to a degree. The respondous iso app is glitchy and almost gave me a seizure during the test because the interface blacked out and I continued to work with it because I had to. After about 40 seconds it began strobing and I had to hard reboot my device and this cost me about 3 min of my testing time twice. Respondus iso app developers were unresponsive until I did a bbb complaint. Other online reviews have stated this as well. So if you're seizure prone don't use it! Computer version is only compatible with windows 10 or higher. We can thank Microsoft for screwing everyone over on this one. Two quarters left and I have to patch my computer to make it school compatible. When school is done I can update my ancient computer being slap patched as things broke. I highly suggest to anyone going through the math program to wisely cheat a little with your ti83 calc. Buy a data transfer cord and go to ticalc.org/ to download free auto solve programs. Been going to this site for decades perfectly safe just virus scan as zips over the decades developed not the best reputation for security. Be wise in how you cheat. For example, don't have your camera show your work space. And secondly don't sit in the first half other class room. Thank god covid made students sit every other chair now. This greatly helps so people don't get snoopy and see what you're doing. Just be aware of teacher and where their position is in the class room as some like to wonder and check for stuff like this. No prob just do 2nd quit and exit app fast. Canvas is old school technology with a lot of holes and errors in it. It is a horrid grader of assignments and I despise teachers that are lazy and don't manually regrade student's work. Respondus has completely ruined test taking and is glitchy in it self. More than once I've had technical issues screwing me over on assignments and costing me points. It is wise to double check work. I am so sick of teachers providing material, you study everything and then some only to find out the tests have no friggen data close to the material studied thus setting you up to fail. Yea, thanks. This heavily discourages me from continuing in the program. Recently updated june 2023. Fyi finally obtained my aa degree. P.s. I suggest to get your basic, math science, and english classes out of the way here and then transfer to a credible university. It will be cheaper.