June 21, 2014
Pros: Easy to Use All Planned for You
November 11, 2010
Pros: low parent-teacher time needed, minimal prep
Cons: many technical problems
Grades Used: various 4th-high school
We used Switched-on-Schoolhouse for State History and tried it for Spanish. With both we did not complete the courses.
First of all, both courses were from different years/versions. With both we had many technical troubles. My husband is an IT guy and even he couldn’,t figure out some of the issues. He also helped our church with their computers, and thus their SOS courses. He had the same troubles on the computer network. It seems every year there is a “,new and improved”, version since they have to fix the problems from the previous versions.
SOS does work well for audio-visual learners and has minimal parent-teacher prep. While my son is that type of learner (as am I), and he typically works the best with computer learning, SOS just did not work for him. We opted to use the Lifepac versions of courses (same content). That way we could pick and choose various topics from each course and skip the ones we didn’,t need.
SOS is also very hard to navigate. It frequently locks up the computer. Also, the audio, videos, and overall visuals need a lot of work. They are not very professional and not up to the standard of the companion Lifepac courses. After using several other online/computer-based curricula, SOS is lacking.
Alpha Omega’,s Monarch courses are just SOS courses run from their computers rather than a home computer. I tried a sample course and the technical issues were similar to SOS’,s. Stick with AOP’,s printed curricula.
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