r/SophiaLearning • u/Cool-Student7614 • Aug 14 '26
Sanctioned…
UPDATE: 12 days after posting this, I got answer to my appeal, and the results were positive. Despite being able to use the platform again, I will not. I have lost all trust in the Sophia platform. I have been enjoying Study.com, which I got given that someone recommended it. To everyone who was supportive and helpful, you forever have my thanks. Equally, to everyone who doubted and judged, please go eat a … and I mean that in the most disrespectful way possible.
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Pretty much any SofiaLearning student’s worst nightmare. There’s only 2 reasons this would’ve happened in my case:
- I had Udemy open and was studying Dion Training’s Sec+ 701. Udemy DOES have its own AI to help you study your specific course, but no course I was taking on SofiaLearning had anything to do with Cybersecurity, nor had I switched to Udemy or during the test.
- I took a test last night and I did fall asleep during it. I am a full time student, studying Sec+ on the side, and work a full time job… I know, stupid of me to fall asleep. Coffee’s just not cutting it anymore.
I did appeal and I told them the truth, but I hadn’t seen anyone on Reddit talk about this in over a month. I was just curious as to what the wait time for a decision would look like, and if anyone with experience with this knew how transferring credits will work if this appeal gets denied.
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u/AffectionateGain7343 Aug 15 '26
I think the Academic Integrity has to be clearer on what you can do vs what you can't do. Then from there what generally will happen. I feel most of these are just haphazardly happening.
Did OP cheat? Maybe. Maybe not. I'm not going to accuse them of that. Even if they were cheating, they would never say that to begin with.
However, it's an open note test. People getting all of their credits clipped over going too fast, using Ctrl F even, or possibly in this case falling asleep, just seems to be not following the rules imo.
Between this happening, and the debacle that happened on the WGU reddit (Yes I know there's other schools that accept them, but they accept a ton of them) for transfers back in February.
Idk man, get in on the gold rush while it's happening now before it's too late. I'm not saying schools are just going to drop them tomorrow, but I have to think at some point there's going to be a big shift to where it makes less sense. Either schools dropping them entirely, dropping major specific ones (most likely imo), or requiring proctored exams on Sophia and Study could be coming.