No, the courses within the CodeSooner Program are provided absolutely free.
No, schools may choose to offer any number of courses as long as they meet the minimum criteria.
CS Principles, and Introduction to Computer Programming (Java) are designed to be two semesters, and HTML & CSS for one semester in length.
The teacher that will be teaching the course needs to complete the online application.
No, this test will be provided to students that choose to take it free of charge.
No, the courses are not currently approved for AP credit, but the University of Oklahoma is working towards this goal.
No, the courses are not currently approved for AP credit, but the University of Oklahoma is working towards this goal.
Yes! Our TA's are here to help you with any question. We will get back to you within 24 hours with answers.
Yes, we have supplamental material for each course. If you would like more, our TA's can make more for you. We can make anything from new tests to extra labs.
No, We currently do not have social media, but we are working towards that goal
You have till the end of May to have all required documents turned in to be accepted for the following Spring semester.
Make sure that your school is not blocking emails from no-reply@nextthought.com. This is often the root of this problem. If not, please contact us and NextThought.
We’ve shared a Google Drive folder with all the solutions to all the teachers that are part of the program. If you don’t have access to it, please let us know by sending us an email to codesooner@ou.edu
We’re working on changing the formatting for these files. Meanwhile, please zip the solutions. If you don’t know how to do this, follow this tutorial (Link to our PDF).
Yes, feel free to email us with any questions and we will get back to you within 24 hours. If email communication is not enough for you or you’d want to schedule a video call, we will arrange this for you.
For immediate answers, you can access NextThought’s user and instructor guide - https://help.nextthought.com/userguide/index.html. Like us, they also have a FAQ section that may have an answer for your problem, which you can access here - https://help.nextthought.com/faq/index.html. We’re constantly working with NextThought to help improve the performance of the platform. If you’re having any technical issues with it, please email support@nextthought.com explaining the issue (screenshots are more than welcomed), and cc us as well (codesooner@ou.edu).