[CASL-L] online course requirement?

[Fitzgerald, Joy]

Our High School does not "require" students to take any online courses.  But they do offer course credit recovery as an option.  And on a few rare occasions, an online course has been approved when it is a subject that we do not offer, with monitoring by either an independent study teacher or a guidance counselor.

So if a Student has missed too many classes or is failing or has lost credit for a past course, they may take an online course to get credit for a course.  There is a "Blended Learning" Teacher who is the credit recovery teacher/primary monitor.  In addition, a few teachers and administrators, who are Administrators in the Edgenuity program.  These staff Edgenuity administrators are able to set a student up and monitor each students progress.   Some students who require more monitoring in person, or meeting time are scheduled into the classroom for a period each day with the "Blended Learning" teacher.   Others are able to log in on a Library Computer or on their own at home or during their free periods.

Edgenuity is the current program, and before last year, we had been using NOVA-NET or GRADPOINT.

Starting two summers ago, the school started SUMMER SCHOOL (credit recovery option) as a blended learning with partial online and partial in school attendance, required to meet with subject teachers for Science, History, English, etc. for a minimum number of times dependent on their online progress.  Little progress online through monitoring required more in school attendance.

Night School/Adult Education had also been using an online course provider with staff monitoring and certain number of in-class meetings.





Joy Fitzgerald
Librarian Media Specialist, Dept. Head &  21st Century Skills Teacher
Rockville High School Library  /  70 Loveland Hill Road  /  Vernon, CT 06066

 "Libraries are no longer ‘grocery stores’ where students can go to pick up ingredients, but ‘kitchens,’ where they have the resources necessary to create a finished product." --Joyce Valenza

860-870-6050 ext. 336 or 340 (Library Desk) / Open: 7:15 a.m. To 3:00 p.m. / Hours are during school year
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From: CASL-L [casl-l-bounces at mylist.net] on behalf of Geri Dineen [geri.dineen at rhamschools.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 5:23 PM
To: casl-l
Subject: [CASL-L] online course requirement?

Do any high schools require students to take at least one online course as part of the graduation requirements?

Are any high schools offering/developing fully online or hybrid (part seat-time/part online) courses?

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Geri Dineen
Library Media Specialist
RHAM High School
Hebron CT 06248
860-228-9474, ext 3317