UOPX Student Resources
Encouraging Success for All Learning Styles
Virtual Organizations
UOPX offers virtual organizations in a variety of industries for students to practice applying new concepts into a safe business environment. Our virtual organizations offer realistic data, relevant problems and unique solutions. As adults, application of knowledge is vital to the full comprehension of a subject, but also ensures students understand the results of certain approaches. Andragogy focuses on using experience to apply new information and virtual organizations allow students to access environments where they can do so.
Center of Math and Writing Excellence
UOPX offers many resources to help students be successful in the classroom. Adults often need individual support and more guided conversations on specific subjects and learning objectives. The Center of Math and Writing Excellence offer just that. Without doing the work for the student, these resources help navigate students through lessons and guide them through understanding why work is done a particular way. This source is particularly helpful for students who need to observe others completing work and learn by observation and then application.
Phoenix Career Guidance System
The ultimate objective of obtaining education is to utilize that in some form or fashion. UOPX is committed to aligning curriculum with workforce competencies in an effort to prepare graduates for successful careers. The Phoenix Career Guidance System allows students and alumni to determine which careers best match their strengths, understand what skill sets are required in those roles, gather information on the job market for positions in that area and even determine potential salary and additional educational requirements or recommendations.
TECHNOLOGY
UOPX Online Library
Second in size only to the library of Congress, UOPX students have a vast array of resources with which to research information. Adults benefit from shared knowledge and research, our online library encourages students to feed their professional curiosity.
Mobile Application
UOPX students have access to a University mobile application. As working adults, we understand the student population are busy individuals; working adults, parents, community leaders and students. Allowing access to the classroom ensures that regardless of schedule and location, our students can be productive learners in an engaging classroom.
Phoenix Connect
Adults learn by interacting with others, sharing best practices, experiences and collaborating in teams. Phoenix Connect offers a forum for students to establish relationships with other students, faculty and alumni both in and out of the classroom. Online environments are still able to offer as sense of community and belonging to students regardless of physical barriers to connect.
24 Hour Technical Support
UOPX offers students 24 hour access to our help desk and technical support. The intention of providing this service is so that employees are enabled for success regardless of technologies random challenges. We recognize that all learners are not as technologically savvy and able to address their own issues, so a trained staff will offer support by trouble shooting the problem with students.
Website: https://portal.phoenix.edu/social/community/support/help
Location: https://portal.phoenix.edu/social/community/support/help?view=blog#/?tagSet=1064
Phone: 1-877-832-4867
Phoenix Prep Center
Adults beginning college later in life are often nervous about how ready they are to step back into the classroom. Phoenix Prep Center offers resources for potential and current student to take several academic assessments to determine their math, typing, reading and comprehension skills, etc. Here students can also take learning profile assessments to determine which medium will best suite their learning style, And lastly students can also take a career assessment to determine which professions might best suite their interests and strengths.