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re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 10/14/17 at 9:07 am
GSMBA16, The FIN 720 last test was fine and should go smoothly if you've made it this far. The problems were generally a little less complex than the practice, and the true/false questions seemed less tricky than some of his other tests. I got A's on all four....

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 10/13/17 at 7:06 pm
You literally don't have to do any of the work for ISDS 705. Only the tests count. Everything in the tests comes from the textbook, and if you have a PDF you can search the textbook during the test for the relevant phrasing on the questions. If you have any kind of IT background, you probably d...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 10/12/17 at 5:01 pm
Jason, I also have an IT background. My previous degree did not include accounting/econ or much in the way of statistics, so I took both BADM 700 and BADM 701. You're not going to find a lot of people who had similar backgrounds who skipped the classes because they've been hard prerequisites up...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 10/4/17 at 12:14 pm
From the Master of Business Administration section of the 2017-2018 course catalog: [quote]Catalog If a student withdraws from the program for more than two regular sessions, he/she must re-enter under the catalog in effect at the time of re-entry.[/quote] [quote]Time Limit A student has...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 10/2/17 at 4:17 pm
Socal77, I think they're trying to confirm that it's going to be open book again. Any responses that specifically applied to the last session aren't relevant, because the course policy could change for next session. From what I remember, Dr. Lin put it in his big long list of things to do bef...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 10/2/17 at 3:44 pm
For people waiting on graduation information, the reports went to the last office of approval this morning, apparently, and will be on the way to the registrar next. People should feel free to fill out the graduation application and submit it as I mentioned in my previous post. [link=(http://www...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 10/2/17 at 3:02 pm
The ISDS705 syllabus didn't say tests would be open book last term either (I just checked), but it was posted somewhere in the information on Moodle for the class (which is no longer available for me to view)....

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 10/2/17 at 11:37 am
I got a similar email a few weeks ago when I asked about it. The link is a little funky: [link=(https://lsusdmm.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0uKamxAGmZGmePP)]https://lsusdmm.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0uKamxAGmZGmePP[/link] Here's the body of the email from the program coordinator (withou...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 9/29/17 at 9:52 am
GSMBA16, I took the FIN720 test and found it comparable to the other two. I've had A's on all three....

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 9/22/17 at 4:58 pm
I've seen these sorts of "oh god, everything is so hard" threads for a few classes. BADM701 and ECON705 had them. Like FIN720, I've definitely seen each of them called "the toughest class in the program." Since all my previous classes disappeared from Moodle, I can't really look back to see abo...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 9/22/17 at 4:15 pm
A situation not unlike the one in ACCT 701 is happening in FIN 720. Apparently a good number of people are struggling mightily with the class (average for test 1 after adjusting for one question and makeup exams was 71%, average for test two was 75%), and since the syllabus explicitly states there ...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 9/15/17 at 9:33 am
According to the graduation paperwork, honors designations are awarded for undergraduate degrees only. There is, apparently, a Beta Gamma Sigma (business degree honor society) chapter that you may be eligible to join with a higher GPA. Other than that...GPA is probably not hugely relevant to a...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 9/12/17 at 1:00 pm
Note that Proctorio requests a camera sweep of your room partway through exams. It's annoying, because you have to stop whatever you were doing and do that immediately. The only times I haven't had to do that on a Proctorio exam is when the test was very short (like five to ten minutes). My under...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 9/11/17 at 10:38 am
GSMBA16, I normally don't really get into my grades much, but since FIN720 is an elective, you're probably not going to get as many responses. I thought the first FIN720 test was decently challenging, but a lot of it came from the awkward wording the teacher sometimes uses, especially on the tru...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 9/9/17 at 10:51 pm
You can just cite the article you're writing about like everything else and leave the link only in the references. There's no reason to include two links. I did that on both of my submissions (although only one has been graded currently, obviously). Edit: And literally all of my references (...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 9/9/17 at 10:10 pm
I wouldn't press my luck if I were you. I'm not sure why everyone was calling this teacher salty a page back, but my guess is that her general responses are unfavorable. I've also never had a paper hit above 10% just from references. I would try to get that score down by either swapping some re...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 9/8/17 at 11:44 pm
I'm not that surprised the averages for the discussion are low. If you scroll through the posts from week 1, it seemed like a lot of people failed to use the APA format for references and a lot of people failed to include at least 3 external references. I'd guess at least 50% of posts didn't me...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 8/13/17 at 10:06 pm
I'll try one last time since this board has moved quickly a few times; if someone could send me the FIN701 textbook I'd be very grateful. Edit: Thanks, Socal!...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 8/8/17 at 3:44 pm
samyn, Both of these classes had mandatory subscription codes for the online components for me. BADM700 I had a physical textbook for the accounting portion (with Cengage code) and I didn't find a current digital copy of the finance textbook (which was only needed for a couple of chapters). BAD...

re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Posted by zdt on 8/7/17 at 9:04 pm
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