Not tooting horn, just a serious Q as I try to maximize the resume impact from completing the MBA-ITM:
Is there such a thing as graduating with honors? Or something like that?
I pulled my hair out more than I should have, I guess, with all exemplary scores on the OAs and several excellence awards on PAs...
Hi everyone! I recently received an Excellence Award for Task 2 of the MBA Capstone, and all 3 of my capstone tasks passed on the first attempt.
I’m a little confused about the difference between a regular Excellence Award and the Capstone Excellence Award (CEA). If a student is nominated/recognized for Task 2 of the MBA Capstone, can that alone qualify for the official CEA? Or do multiple capstone tasks usually need to receive Capstone Excellence Awards?
Also, Task 1 was evaluated first, followed by Task 2 and Task 3, but I only received an award email for Task 2 today. Does WGU sometimes send Excellence Award emails later regardless of the order the tasks were evaluated?
Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has received a CEA before. Thanks!
I start on August 1st and want to pre study for the OA's, does any body have any useful material or advice? Thanks in advance im stoked to get started!!!
So I am about to start my capstone and from what I've seen on social media, the simulation sounds near identical to the undergrad class Business Simulation. So my question for alumni who have taken both - are they the same? Close? I know the tasks are different for the capstone, but I am asking for the simulation itself. Thanks!
Has anyone else tried getting accepted into the WGU Accelerators group and been denied? I think I was denied because last night I clicked on join group, and it said my request was sent. I went to check today, and now it says join group again.
Added note: There are no questions to answer, and I requested to join using my real FB page. I'm just trying to make sure I'm not missing something.
I have this to take by the end of the month! I keep stalling with fully diving in to really study! I have listened to a few cohorts and read through a few topics but nothing detailed! It's just alot of information!
I have the study guides and all.
Any tips???
Ugh!
Hi all, I want a masters degree to get a higher position without accounting or really anything in the corporate world.
I was hoping to stay on public loan forgiveness and so a masters may help me with higher paying roles in government.
Not sure if I should go for a MACC or MBA?
I only have 3 years of work experience in accounts payable although my title is “accountant.”
Not sure if it’s worth it. Also if you know if generous scholarships that would be great.
Hey guys, just started this class today. wanted to ask what people's experience with it has been, what worked, and what didn't. What has been people's plan of attack with this OA? From what I've been able to find, and what I'm planning, here's my plan.
3-hour Stice brother video on Accounting Foundations - since they wrote the E-book, and people say this video has helped a lot. https://www.linkedin.com/learning/accounting-foundations-28027590
I then found a post with PowerPoint links to all the classes with OAs. This seems like a godsend and helped me pass my first OA in Managing Human Capital in one day, just by reviewing the slides a few times that day. https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU_MBA/comments/1sl1wtw/c202_c207_c211_c213_c214_c215_oa_powerpoint_links/
After those, I'm gonna test my luck with the Pre-Assessment to see how I do, then study what I missed.
This class seems to be manageable, but if anyone has any insight, I'm all ears!
I submitted task 1. I can’t do task 2 until it’s unlocked. Has anyone started task 3 in the meantime?
For those of you who have already passed C207 and D435, did you read all the chapters in the textbook to pass the OA, or did you use Quizlet to help you? Also, are these two classes hard like C201?
Hi - If your term starts on a Saturday, can you mentor open your classes on that weekend? Or does it open the first business day?
First thing I did was go through all except some 11 of Hawaiian Shirt Guy. I didn’t like his videos that much, but used to learn the material first pass through. I didn’t get through is chapter 11 videos as I was just done by that point.
Next thing I did was study all of the guides on studentdocu. Thank you to those that made those.
Then I listened to our course instructors PowerPoints on share point. This is in course resources. I found her videos to be the most helpful.
Then I took the PA last week and passed, however not by a great margin.
I took all the questions I got wrong on the pa and plugged them into chat and asked it to quiz me.
This morning before the test I reviewed the share point videos again and had a phone call w. Course Imstructor on my difficult subjects.
I also attended two cohorts during the week. This morning I couldn’t study any more took it and got exemplary. I knew I may have missed only 3 questions (maybe 4).
All tasks submitted, now I’m just refreshing the page every 5 minutes like it’ll suddenly update. I’m excited, nervous, and mildly unhinged. Graduation is right there.
So you think they will dock me or make me revise the first 4 quarters since quarter 3 I ended with $1, then quarter 4 it jumped to 42,000?
I kept messing with the simulation to try to fix that quarter 3 but nothing I was doing changed it.
Feel like this task is not as hard as people are making it out to be. If you look at the requirements in the rubric, course materials, and task assignment, there are little nuances in each. Here is what I did to pass it on the first try.
Have all the templates, examples, and study material in a folder.
Do the task a section at a time. 1^(st) section, 2^(nd) section, 3^(rd) section, filling out the master template as you go along. Save one as the master template.
GO THROUGH THE EXAMPLE THOROUGHLY
1. Watch a couple of the different youtube review videos. I found a lot of my notes below from them.
2. Use the task descriptions, course material, task requirements, and the rubric to figure out what is required for the task. Put it all together in a notes page. I then took those notes and ran it through AI to find differences and made sure I did every part listed in all areas.
3. Download Project Libre, play with it, and get familiar. See how to indent and outdent data in chart, before I built my chart.
4. Watch the supplied gantt chart video, pay close attention to everything that is said in that video. Then when you work on your chart, watch it while you work on your chart. Trust the numbers they have you put in. They may seem off, but follow the instructions to a T.
5. Don’t copy and paste anything into projectlibre.
6. When you get done inputting the data into libre, go to file, information, statistics, and see how long project is scheduled to take, use that number cause you’ll need it later.
7. Watch the video again, check it against the work you did. And then move on
8. Part 3 – Watch the metrics calculation demo and pay close attention. Download the formula chart (I had to email and ask the instructors for it because the link was wrong) and have it open when you work on your analysis, then watch the calculations demo again and work along with it while you work on your spreadsheet. Watch it until the VERY END.
9. Part 4 – Watch the video and treat it the same way you did the others. Watch it first, then watch it again while you work through yours
10. Play around with the line charts in excel, there’s editing that you need to do with this chart, that is necessary that they don’t instruct you on how to do.
TL;DR - You see the pink-eye owl! I passed my last course (C211) and completed the MBA program!
I typed up a longer post earlier today detailing my journey to this MBA degree and then this app refreshed. Yes, I do have ADHD.
Anyway, achieving this goal seemed like an impossible task. I started last November and it took me almost a full month before I made any progress in my first course. Thinking about the impact an MBA would have on my career if I succeeded mixed with the fear of failing made me freeze up. Once I shook the fear and locked in, I was able to complete quite a few courses, and by mid February there were only 2 left. And then of course life started to life.
I failed my C211 OA; it was not at all what I had anticipated. My child and I wound up sick with something like the super flu. The organization that I work for (and love so dearly) became plagued with talks of “restructuring.” My boss was promoted. I also received a promotion, but had to continue to providing coverage support until earlier this week (essentially working 2-3 jobs). My mom had surgery; I took time off to care for her and my teen siblings. My child got sick AGAIN. Just the thought of opening my laptop to do schoolwork would make me anxious.
March and April were chaotic. I tried switching my focus to C216, which worked until Task 1 robbed me of my muchness; I overthought everything and paused my progress again. Then my old faithful swooped in to carry me through: procrastination.
In late April, after I’d already passed the point of requesting an extension for C216, my amazing mentor’s nudges and warnings about the upcoming term end lit a fire in me. I convinced myself that I could finish both classes by end of term. I didn’t fully dive back in until April 26th — giving myself about 3.5 days to finish with 0 tasks submitted and global economics shoved so far in the back of my mind, it wouldn’t have surprised me if Porter and his diamond theory pelted me with rotten tomatoes. To no one’s surprise, I didn’t finish before term end. BUT I’d done so much work trying to, it didn’t take me long to finish what I’d started.
On Monday, I finally passed C216 (after Task 2 was sent back for revision twice). Porter and his diamond theory as well as Nash and his equilibrium owe me crisp hi-5s! In addition to following the C211 retake plan and studying intensively, I spent all last night/this morning taking each pre-OA review test, the pre-assessment again, and skimming the study plan that’s been making its rounds in this sub. My study session ended at 6:30 AM and I scheduled my exam for 6:50 AM, without a lick of sleep. For just under an hour, I sat uncomfortably with smudged mascara and sweaty hands, rocking pajama pants on bottom and a work polo on top, dog tired, but confident that I would pass. And I did! New degree, who dis? Sorry. Not sorry.
So now that I’ve pieced together a post equal in length to my previous draft, this night owl is going to sleep. I hope this serves as motivation for you and a reminder to not be so hard on yourself. I could’ve finished this MBA in early March or sooner, but it happened when it was supposed to. Good luck to those of you still grinding it out, keep up the momentum.
Just waiting for my Task2 evaluation, do we have to follow the order of courses in our term? Mine says AFT2, then C215.
Or do you have any recommendations which would be "easier" for the flow of the program?
Thank you!!
Hi everyone,
I’m currently preparing to enroll in the MBA in IT Management program after completing my WGU Bachelor’s in Business Management. I understand that transfer credit may be granted for the MGT2 (IT Project Management) course if you hold a PMP or CAPM certification.
My question is: If I already used my CAPM certification to receive credit for a course in the WGU bachelor’s program, am I still eligible to use that same certification to receive transfer credit for MGT2 in the MBA program? It’s an active CAPM and recently updated this past year.