Tips for Education Degrees at WGU Indiana

I'm about to wrap up my BA with WGU Indiana. The experience has been good enough for me to decide that I wanted to continue on with WGU Indiana and get my Masters through them. At the moment I'm considering the Biology Education program because I love biology and I know science is a high-need area in the field of education. Because I am about to receive my BA in Elementary Education as well as Special Education and I plan to teach in Indiana, I thought I would offer some tips for those who are going through the same, or similar program at WGU Indiana.

• When you apply for your license to teach, don't forget to click on the "out of state" portion of the application. WGU Indiana is a state school, but they are still going back to WGU for the credentials on that end.
• Tasks get through Taskstream much faster if you make the changes stand out. I personally go over mine with yellow to make it easier for the graders. In fact, I found that this worked well when I got a task back for changes, but didn't actually change anything. They had somehow missed what they were looking for. I made it easier to see and the task went through.
• Attend the makeup cohort meetings, even if you didn't miss any. There is some really valuable information offered in those!
• Go over the items for your portfolio before actually using it. Just because something got through Taskstream, don't assume it is perfect, especially if you made changes and made them stand out.
• To submit your portfolio, click on "attachments" like you would for any other assignment. Instead of clicking on "browse" after that, click on "get items from folio" right below it. (The task and the resources both leave that info out of the instructions.)

And one more thing...stalking Taskstream does not help your items get reviewed any faster. I know it's almost impossible to stop, so just walk away from the computer. (All kidding aside, it is almost impossible to stop stalking them, but we probably aren't doing ourselves any favors by slowing down their servers with our compulsive hitting of the "refresh" key.)