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What kind of prerequisites do I need to enroll?
| | You need to see if you fulfill the student requirements so please read the Course Descriptions for more details. Usually you only need to have basic programming knowledge. But keep in mind that online learning requires a significant amount of dedication and discipline: you have to invest time to complete the course assignments. | | top |
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Why should I study online at viCampus?
| | We believe that the most important thing for an online school is to have great instructors, who create the highest quality content, and offer the best possible student feedback. This is why we involved people that have experience teaching at conferences, schools and universities. They are used to teaching people, and they know how to communicate the subject matter thoroughly and effectively, with personal attention through our forums, chats, and e-mails to each and every student. | | top |
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I'm afraid I won't learn. How effective is online learning?
| | From our long-term experience in both fields, distant learning and live classes at universities, we can tell that online learning is MORE rewarding and effective than live classes. Students who want to study online are usually more committed and produce incredible results. And because you can use your own time management to come up with your personal weekly schedule you won't feel overwhelmed by the course material. | | top |
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What software tools does viCampus use?
| | We use standard tools that are approved and are used by most game development studios. For example, we use Visual C++ .NET for C/C++ development, Direct3D for 3D graphics programming, RakNet for network programming, and Alias Maya (free PLE version) for the modeling courses. | | top |
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Which languages do you speak?
| | As of now all of our courses are in English language only. However, part of the viCampus team also speaks German. But in general the official viCampus language is English tongue in the courses, chats, and in the forum. In your E-Mails and PM to the corresponding instructors you can use German as well if the instructor has a German tongue. | | top |
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| Category: Multiple Choice Assignments |
What are Online Multiple Choice Assignments?
| | A multiple choice assignment is an examination that consists of a variable number of questions. For each question there is a variable number of answers presented - some of which are true and some of which are false. To successfully pass a multiple choice assignment question you have to find all true answers and avoid choosing false answers.
The online mc-assignments we offer here at viCampus offer a way to check your progress in a particular course. If a course you are enrolled for offers one or more of those assignments you can do the assignment online. After completing one mc-assignment you will get immediate feedback about your score and which answer are the correct ones. | | top |
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How many answer choices are offered for a question and how many can I select?
| | There is a variable number of answer choices for each question, but the bottom line is that at least one true answer is offered. Note that all offered answer choices can be true. You can select any number of choices you want to, ranging from none to all that are available. | | top |
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How does the grading system for an assignment work?
| | For each question in a multiple choice assignment you can get a maximum score that equals the number of true answers provided for a question. For each true answer selected you get one point. For each false answer selected your point score is decreased by one. The point score for each question is always >= 0, there is now way you can get a negative score for a question. Finally, your result of the assignment is the sum of all scores you got for all questions of the assignment. | | top |
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Is there a time limit and can I stop and continue an assignment later?
| | There is no time limit involved. You can think about the questions and the answer choices as long as you wish. You can even stop an assignment any time you want, for example by closing your browser or selecting a link from the menu. Your progress does not get lost but is stored in our database. If you have started an assignment it will be listed on the corresponding classroom website for you. You can continue with the assignment any time you want.
Naturally, this break and continue policy along with the lack of a time limit allows you take a look at other resources such as the DirectX SDK documentation, the course material, Google, and things like that. And this is indeed what we encourage you to do. The assignments are not meant to test if you can remember a certain function name or attribute set of a particular object. Instead we understand our assignments as yet another way of guided learning. You simply have to prove that you know where to find the corresponding information and that you understood the information we provided you with. | | top |
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