Hello, I'm just going to start out by saying, yes I'm aware there are terrible instructors at every school but I've never had one so unwilling to do their job, you still have to instruct even if it's online.
I'm an older adult going back to school, I picked this school for financial reasons. I'm only a few classes in. I'm on the Business Administration path. I also have a family and work full-time job.
For the first real discussion, the limit was 600 words, not including the references. The body of my post was 550 but with my references it made the word count 675. They deducted points for being over the word count. When I pointed out per your own instructions the references is not supposed to be counted in the word count, he changed the grade but made a point to say it's "just this one time."
You didn't even follow your own instructions! Then they marked off my assignment for not following formatting but didn't say what exactly the issue was in the feedback. When I asked him about that he said it wasn't in correct APA format and next time I'll be graded more harshly. Then they threw in my essay was borderline plagiarism because it had a 30% TurnItIn score but when I ran it through plagiarism checker it only highlighted stuff that was cited (proper in text citations) Nor was I told exactly what in the essay was considered plagiarism. It was an assignment that relied on providing evidence for my argument so I used a lot of statistics and quoted several things. I think I had 9 references on my list.
One assignment was knocked off points for not using references for an essay about my own personal goals. Not sure why I would need other sources for my own personal goals?
Plus several of the texts used are 20 years out of date, using companies that don't even exist anymore or have drastically changed their policies as examples.
I guess you definitely get what you pay but I'm not going to waste what little money I can spend on education to have an instructors that just runs something through an AI scan and borderline accuse me of plagiarism.