A mention of Saylor Academy on the discussion forums of the legendary Straight Dope? That’s probably, like, one degree of separation from Cecil Adams. We’re honored. Speechless! (But capable of typing, hence this post.) Now that we’re done crowing, though, we suggest you take a look at the post if you or someone you love […]
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Several big changes have happened with Saylor Academy so far this year, including: moving our courses from WordPress to Moodle, moving our discussion forums from WordPress to Discourse, launching new and improved certificates, and (this is the controversial one!) dividing our courses into the fully-supported group on Learn site and the unsupported group at our Legacy site. He is […]
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Neelam Malik-Tajani, learning with Saylor Academy as part of the Adamjee Life Academy initiative, talks about the need to practice juggling multiple tasks — while one is already juggling multiple tasks. Saylor Academy is great way of initiating the learning process. The purpose of choosing three particular courses was to learn how to manage the tasks […]
In just about four weeks, we will be shutting down what we in the office call “old Moodle” — our exam and certificate platform that lives at school.saylor.org. After August 26th, you will not be able to log in to school.saylor.org or directly access your data there. We will preserve records of certificates issued and […]
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We will perform a software update for our courses site (learn.saylor.org) on 30 July from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT. Exams and assessments submitted during that time may not be recorded, so please plan accordingly! […]