How to Know When to Drop Your Online Program

Everyone starts a new program with the best intentions (learning new things, another class completed towards your degree), but sometimes life puts up a roadblock and you take a little detour.You may have misjudged the time you had available to take your online courses or you found that online learning is simply not for you. You may hate your instructor or have had a hard time motivating yourself. Mostly, students drop classes because life gets in the way of learning. Let’s face it: things happen.When you find you just hate online learning so much that you dread doing the work, it might be time to reconsider your goals. If you are doing well, finish out the term and then drop out. You can always get your transcript sent to another school, get credit for your work and use the credit towards something else. If you are not doing well, drop out immediately and let the school know that you withdrew for personal reasons. The school can’t press you for more information. If you do drop out in the middle of a term, you will generally see "W" on your transcripts. Future employers may ask about them, so be prepared to explain your actions.If you find you are having trouble with your current instructor and aren’t learning anything, you have two choices: talk to the instructor or your academic advisor and see if you can resolve the problem or drop out of that course and take it from a different instructor later. If you find that all the instructors, department or the program is not living up to your expectations, you should finish the term and then drop out. Sometimes there is a mismatch between the student and the school. That’s okay; just minimize the damage to your transcript by finishing out the term and avoiding