Today I enrolled in the next course, C206 Ethical Leadership. I was disappointed recently when I went to look at the requirements. Back when I first decided to enroll at WGU I set out a Timeline which included all the assessments that must be passed to complete each course. At that time only an Objective Assessment was required for this course. Since my first glance and my current enrollment the course expanded to include two Performance Assessment tasks in addition to the exam. I have no explanation for this other than something my first mentor told me. Sometimes courses are altered or updated. Because of the rolling monthly enrollment possible for the MBA these changes occur during a student’s program. When I first gained access to the WGU system in August I saw ‘V2’ next to a couple of the courses. I was informed that was an indicator of what version the course was since someone started the program. Since my September enrollment I’ve not seen any such changes in the courses in my degree plan.
In line with earlier observations, I’ve decided not to use the Kanban board to organize my approach to this course. WGU provides pacing guides for each course which suggest readings and assignments to complete each week. I will use the pacing guide to follow the order of approach to chapters and readings, but complete each section far faster than the suggested week. Currently I’m hoping to finish this course by Friday or Saturday. Since I’ve taken vacation days from work yesterday through the beginning of next week I technically have all day to complete this acceleration. Work has a ‘use it or lose it’ policy and I have days to burn at this point in the year. As expected, my spouse used my vacation days as a signal that she gets a vacation so I’m left at home today watching the kids while she is out shopping. This is another interesting wrinkle in trying to do school while working full time. I made a point multiple times of telling her my focus was to complete school and make the progress that wasn’t happening because of all the family obligations she has scheduled the past month. So the first thing she does after I announced my vacation was plan lunch one day with her friend, which was yesterday. At the time she told me it would just be one thing during my vacation, just one thing. Today, the second vacation day, she is leaving me with the kids for more than half a day. The first half I had to go to the doctor, so my only study time is the time she leaves me with the kids. This is not the first time I’ve had vacation days where she schedules a vacation for herself and I’m left watching kids. Maybe the lesson to me is that I need to stop telling her when I have vacation days if I have specific plans. When the vacation day arrives, instead of going to work, I’ll follow the plan. That way I’ll actually accomplish what was planned.
The first assignment is to enroll in an Ethics Game. Sounds fun.
Those are the instructions above for the following steps.
I clicked on ‘show section.’ A new window opened to show the following.
Click on ‘enroll now’ to see:
That’s a lot of window space for such a short message. No window or other changes visibly occurred. I checked my WGU email and absolutely nothing has changed at this point. I’ll have to return later to see if I can access this game. Time is wasting.
I just discovered the intent of the Ethics Game.
