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So the grades are coming in and I am not doing so well.  I thought I have been very very careful and reading everything so so so carefully but I missed replying to a discussion post.  Knocked down my grade.  On another discussion board the teacher replied to post that I needed to add a personal experience.  Can I just say that discussion boards are the bane of my exsistance right now?  If I wanted to sit in a class and give my opinions and experiences I would go to a class.  I don't want to share that much information.
It literally takes me hours to do discussion boards.  To me that is not a class that is social media.  Sigh.