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Complaint Review: WGU - Salt Lake City Utah

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WGU Western Governors University WGU and Course Hero Ripped me off and hacked into my accounts Salt Lake City Utah

*Consumer Comment: Perfect for those who want to be babysat

*Consumer Comment: Cheater

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I am a former WGU student now.  I withdrew from WGU after a nasty little encounter I had with WGU and Course Hero.  I paid good money to get help with a class I was taking.  Course Hero said that they provided help in getting assignments completed and would be happy to tutor me.  The next thing I know is I am in trouble for asking for help. 

I still had funds that I had paid to Course Hero.  I wanted to use those funds and move on.  Since I knew that the WGU didn't like you using Course Hero I changed all of my personal information with them.  I changed my sign in name, my e mail account, and change the school associated with my account.  I talked to a tutor and asked if everything between the two of us was confidential and private.  I was told that the only people who could see what we had talked about were the both of us.  I deleted my account after the exchange and moved on with my life.  

Imagine my surprise when I find out that WGU has my information again!  The only possible way that they could have my information once again was to HACK my personal email or they have someone working inside Course Hero. 

I have to say this is the dumbest way to get business.  You want to get students kicked out of college.  Brilliant thinking on both the schools and Course Heros part.  People don't need tutoring services if they aren't going to college.  Then there are the reviews for the schools, I am sure that negative reviews does the school or Course Hero any good.  

 

 

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#2 Consumer Comment

Perfect for those who want to be babysat

AUTHOR: Nicole - (USA)

POSTED: Sunday, August 14, 2016

I went through this SAME exact thing. I went to course hero because I had literally one line out of 60 or so that kept getting rejected via task stream. Course mentor was of no help, and I wasnt figuring it out myself. I reached out for help with the only resource left! Outside help!

Imagine my surprise getting an email one day that some WGU employee internet scoured my name, and they do this to everyone. The username matched an online store account with my name, so they mandated a plagiarism meeting. Seriously?! 

 

People, particularly WGU fanboys, are quick to yell "cheater", however tutoring is 100% acceptable in every single other school, online and in person. If I wanted to really cheat, I wouldve found some shmuck on craiglist or locally to do the whole paper for me. Not to mention, 80% of coursework is proctored multiple choice exams, how can you cheat on those? Kind of seems redundant to me to have cheating police in a school that already has extreme safeguards against it.

 

WGU does not have the best of resources. Giving someone an ebook and demanding they know something is not the process of "learning". Good luck with course mentors too. I personally could only get time with one once I already failed an assessment, and the talks were never helpful. I am a logic style learner, so I do best with simple explanation. Example: the sky is blue because of the way the light reflects on the ocean. WGU explanation: the sky is what color because droplets of light reflect off of what material to produce how many beams of light? I kid you not...every course mentor talk I had led to answer questions myself(which is silly, if you are not understanding, much like a regular teacher...they should walk you through to the final answer, which you could come up with yourself given a proper explanation...however the explanation factor is so empty. It is no wonder why people need additional help.)

 

This school is a joke. A cheap, glorified University of Phoenix if you ask me. I graduated with my AA fully online at my local college. Your main mentor is no more than a babysitter and cannot help you whatsoever with coursework. Fanboys will say, they are there to "motivate". Uh, no. Real motivation is going to a real college and finishing without someone bothering you endlessly each week. That is what college is supposed to be. No one making you or watching you do a thing. Real adult life. I withdrew this week, thank goodness...and just learned a somewhat pricey lesson because 90% of colleges do not accept their credits. I tried to save a buck, but you get what you pay for. I will finish at a different online school despite the price ticket, because having WGU on my resume would be an embarrassment....

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#1 Consumer Comment

Cheater

AUTHOR: Robert - (USA)

POSTED: Friday, July 29, 2016

Why would you go as far as change ALL of your information to try and hide youself from WGU.  Why would you DELETE any conversation you had with this other company? 

The answer is simple, you know it was wrong and you were trying to cheat.  I am sorry to tell you that while Government Officials can get away with deleting e-mail conversations...regular people can't.

Now, was it outright blatent cheating, no.  But it is still a form of cheating and something you knew that wasn't allowed.  Or you wouldn't have done what you did to hide yourself.  So don't come here and try to play the "poor me" card.  Because that will only be topped by the "Cheaters never prosper" card.

I do though always love these conspiracy theories.  After all, you are so important that they spent the time to hack into your
PERSONAL email account to try and catch you cheating.  Really?  You think in the overal scheme of things you are anything more than a number in their database?

But I am curious about what do you mean they have your information "again". 

As for getting kids kicked out of college..it is called INTEGRITY.  If a college allowed cheating then their repuation would go down.  If their repuation goes down then their degrees would be nothing more than TP and no one with any sort of talent or desire to learn would go there.  So in effect by getting rid of you(a cheater) they are actually protecting their school.

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