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I’m in the management foundations program and was wondering if comm 243 or comm 277 was easier since I struggle writing essays. What are the reflective essays like for comm 243?

Hey yall, long story short, my current courses started Feb 1, 2026. I purchased a course extension in April to extend these courses until July 31, 2026. This was due to my physical health getting very bad. Flash forward to today, recently my health has been getting progressively worse, and I am having difficulties completing my course work quickly and efficiently. I have excellent in-progress grades, it’s just taking me longer than usual.

I desperately want another course extension for these three courses, and I am confident I can have them complete within this second extension timeline. The problem is, the deadline for requesting a course extension is 30 days before the end of the course, which would have been July 1… it’s July 3 (almost 4) as I am typing this. I missed the deadline due to— you guessed it— major health stuff. I just sent an email to AU practically BEGGING for an exception but I don’t know what to expect, especially since today is Friday and they likely won’t even see the email until Monday.

My question to yall is: have you ever gotten an exception to a rule/policy at AU like this? Missed a deadline or something but were able to provide proof of extenuating circumstances and had it approved anyways? Please give me hope, but also tell me the truth.

The stress about this is certainly not helping my physical health or my ability to concentrate on my course work. 😫😫

Thanks guys

Hey all,

PSYC289 appears to be the first course I've taken that does not offer a study planner/calendar in brightspace, so I'm wondering -- for those of you who have taken it, how long did it take you to complete the course?

Anyone have any broad guidance on what the Math 315 is like? How many questions? How many theory questions? How many computer questions? How long did you take to complete it?

I am here because I see this question often on all the forums and no one clearly answers when I search. So let's put it out here for all accounting classes in Lyryx.

Exams and midterms are same as labs, they are a compilation of all kinds of lab questions all in one exam, there's at least one for each. Practice your labs, understand how Lyryx marks and where you can "make errors" and not have points deducted, like the blue shaded answers say "wrong answer but consistent with your earlier entries".

So if you good on labs, you'll do great on the exam.

Edit: your knowledge of chapters is tested by labs, only reasonable that the entire sum of the knowledge is tested by an exam that is a one giant lab. It's in Lyryx, familiarize yourself with how it marks because you can calculate in a spreadsheet and then enter the numbers or do math directly in the cells, sometimes math is correct but rounds up to a +/- 0.01 cent and messes up the calc where you need accuracy to 2 decimals, I noticed on one of my labs and now I know.

Hello everyone! if I have a midterm schduled on the 6th, if I try to do it today would it open? I am thinking of getting it over with

I’m a funded AU student taking 5 courses from September to December.
If I finish all 5 early, can I register for more courses before January as a self-funded student? Or am I limited to those 5 courses until the funded term ends?
Has anyone done this before?

Hello everyone!
Does anyone have any experience in taking CHEM 217?
Looks like the guidelines are pretty straight forward. I'm still a bit confused regarding oral quizzes. I've never had anything like this before.

I recently completed my final semester. Im still waiting for 3 assignments to be marked. Can I apply now or should I wait until my grades are finalized?

I'm an honours degree holder in psychology and looking to apply to grad school. I have to be honest, I'm not seeing anything about this school here that prompts me to want to enroll. In fact, most of these posts are my actual nightmare as a student. Anyone care to share positive experiences?

I am currently taking BIOL 235 as a nursing pre-req. I have to submit my transcript to the nursing school by Aug. 4 but my final exam for biol 235 is July 8 and I don’t think I can manage to do it any earlier.

Does anyone know if I will be able to get my final transcript in time??

Hey guys, just asking those who have challened a course before, is the option of taking the exam still with proctorU or must you go to an invigilation centre? I looked at the challenge for credit web page on Athabasca's website, and it's not perfectly clear. Under "exam invigilation network" I scrolled down to Ontario (the province I'm from) and, while proctorU is an option at the top, it also says if you're within 40km of a centre, you must write it there. However, exams written for courses you choose to do normally can still be written on proctorU. Not sure if that part is for challenge for credit courses only then. I am definitely more comfortable writing exams at my own desk. Thanks for any help.

hello!! Just wondering if anyone had any tips or helpful thoughts for the NUTR 406 final??

Hey! i just finished my
PSYC387: Learning (Rev. 8)
CMNS302: Communication in History
PSYC379: Social Psychology

gizmo study guides i still have a greek course and I am going to try to do this for all my coures to help me study. The link to my gizmo is on my profile if anyone ever wants to use these or any future classes study tools.

Praying for any tips / advice on this final. I’m going over the learning objectives, but it’s a lot of information to retain.
Thanks!!

I keep adding courses to the website, and it accepts them, but as soon as I leave the website, it doesn’t save and asks me to do it all over again. I am trying to register for September. I don't know if anyone has any advice.

Just finished this course and wow the exam marking seems to be incredibly harsh after studying for the final for 2 weeks. I've been getting straight A's at Athabasca but unfortunately not after this course. The problem is there is no feedback in this course and the course is material terrible (15 sections and a terrible textbook) no answers to the study questions so you don't really know what they're looking for. There's 1 paper to write and only exams, I did very well on the paper but failed one exam and almost failed the other, which was very surprising since I thought I did fairly well on both, guess not. Definitely would not recommend this course unless mandatory

Wrote my final this morning and am not sure if I have to wait for the small written portion to update. On the midterm it only took an hour and I saw a mark increase. No exam feedback yet, does that mean its waiting to be marked?

has anyone taken this recently? what can i expect?

Long story short, a sudden situation came up that required me to urgently request accommodations because I needed to submit my final grades for graduate school.

I initially reached out to the course coordinator and explained my circumstances, including the reason for my request, my conditional graduate school offer, and the deadline I was facing. He denied my request and also made unprofessional assumptions about me, my situation, and my academic ability in the email.

I ended up escalating the issue to higher levels within the department. After reviewing everything, they overruled his decision and granted my accommodation. I was also told they would be investigating the course coordinator because of the contents of his email.

My concern now is that, according to what I've been told by the department, the course coordinator is ultimately responsible for handling exam results and determining when they get marked and released. I'm worried that he could intentionally delay my grades, which would cause me to lose my graduate school offer.

Who would I contact about this? Has anyone been in a similar situation or have any advice