If you have signed up at Saylor Academy recently (November), you will likely have encountered a problem when signing in to our testing center, which runs on software called Moodle at http://school.saylor.org. This is where you take many quizzes, unit assessments, and all final exams for our courses. Below, we address: the problem; what to […]
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With lead author John Hilton III of Brigham Young University, our staff members Lindsay Murphy and Devon Ritter have written and had published the article “From Open Educational Resources to College Credit: The Approaches of Saylor Academy” in open-access journal Open Praxis [Vol 6, No 4 (2014)]. The article considers the Saylor Academy’s history, philosophy, […]
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On Saturday, 8 November 2014, Saylor Academy will be performing maintenance on a number of our servers and systems between 8:00 PM and 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5); systems affected will include our main site, our sign-in system, our test center (school.saylor.org), our ePortfolio, and our forums. We strongly recommend that you do not […]
Some of you have wondered where the form on our Contact page went. The short version: it broke. We then switched over to the new flavor of the site, where the form remained broken (it’s on our list). Always fans of turning a problem into an opportunity, making lemonade from lemons, and making coffee from whatever […]
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Amidst the various updates, improvements (and updates to the improvements), here is once that might fly under the radar: we have updated the map on the bottom of our community page to be an interactive display of students and visitors from around the world. The data represents four years of unique visits, from September 2010 […]