FIRST YEAR CLASSES - the
basics
The next step is to Sign In for your first
course.
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MORE THAN ONE COURSE AT A
TIME:
As it would be if
you were attending an on-campus college, it is
common for students to take many courses rather than just one.
Many of our online students take more
that one course at a time. The Video
College is set up in core courses of 5 at a time. You are allowed to take as many
of those 5 as you desire but there is one caution- don't overload yourself with
more than you can handle given all of your
current time constraints in all areas of
your life including sufficient time for your studies.
ATTENDANCE AND OTHER
COURSE INFORMATION
ATTENDANCE:
If you do not meet the minimum
attendance
requirements for the course, then
you will not be allowed to take the Final Test.
Also, if the individual lesson tests
are spaced incorrectly, thus failing to meet
the minimum weekly attendance
requirements, then they will also be disallowed
and will not be credited to your file.
You will have to retake them when
you
have met the attendance/study/testing
requirements. Those requirements are
explained on the individual course main
page as well as on other pages you
have to access to get to those courses.
COURSE
RECORD FORM and TRANSCRIPT & GRADES FORM:
1. Make sure that you keep track of your attendance for each course that you
take. Make a list of
"Begin" and "Finish" dates for each course so that you can
make sure you meet the
attendance requirements for each individual course.
You will need your "Begin" Sign In
date to input on your "Finish" Sign In form.
You will also need to keep track
of other pertinent information for each course.
Click this link, COURSE RECORD FORM to access a downloadable sheet on
which to keep your course information. You will be able to download the form in
your choice of formats: as a Word doc or a pdf file or a WordPerfect wpd file.
You will need one copy of this form for each course that you take. Record
all information for each course when
you begin the course and then update the
form for each course with the pertinent information each time you submit work to
the college for that course. If you do not have a printer, then download the form
as a Word or WordPerfect file and save it in your computer as a word-processor
file and then you can use it internally without having to print it out. Remember to
keep it up-to-date as you progress through each course because you will need the
information on it later when you submit the Finish Sign In form and the Password
Retrieval or Closed Book Test Contract forms which you will submit when you
have finished each entire course. Without the information from that form you will
not be able to retrieve the password, which you will need to access the Final Test.
2. Students are also required to report their grades for verification to
the
Administrative Office every 6 months. This is accomplished by means of the
Transcript
and Grades Form.
To access that form, click that link. Your
computer will ask you to specify where the form download is to be saved.
Specify
somewhere you will be able to easily find it.
To access an instruction video explaining use of the form, click HERE
and scroll
down to the video entitled How
to Use the Transcript and Grades Template.
Update that form every time you start a course and every time you pass a
quiz/test.
ATTENTION: Be sure to submit a copy of the form to the college every
six (6)
months to
keep your Academic File current. Keep updating the same form and
add
the new information to it and send a copy of it to the college. Do not use a
different
form each time.
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Sign In Form - this is how
we keep a record of your attendance.
Follow all instructions on the Sign In page exactly.
Be sure to submit the form after filling it out. If you do not do so, then any
tests you take will not be credited to your file. The reason they cannot be credited to you is
because we will have no record of your attendance and no way of knowing if you
have met the attendance requirements for the course.
Sign in once when you first start a
course. Use the "Begin Sign In" form and then sign in once again using the "Finish Sign In" form when you have completed the entire
course and you are ready to take the Final Test. These two dated forms,
one marked "Begin" and one marked "Finish," are used to
compute and verify your attendance for the course. You do NOT submit a
sign in to "Begin" and a sign in to "Finish" form for each individual
lesson in the course. You submit the forms only when you Begin and when you Finish each individual course.
The required minimum attendance per lesson and required minimum attendance for the course are listed on each individual course main page.
Begin Sign In form:
The link to these forms is found on each course main
page.
Once you submit the Sign In form you will be
automatically taken to a confirmation page:
Once you reach that page, either print
out that page so you will have a copy of all of the
pertinent information
or save an electronic copy on your computer.
When
you are finished on the confirmation page, you will be
told to:
Close this window to return to
the form.
You then close that window, which will return you to
the sign in form.
Back on the sign in form, in moving red letters in a box, you will be told to:
CLOSE THIS WINDOW AFTER YOU HAVE
SUBMITTED THIS FORM
Once you close that form you will be returned
to the page from which you accessed it.
To sign in for more
courses:
A separate Sign In form must be submitted for each course.
Keep a copy of the pertinent information for each individual course.
To sign in for additional courses, simply follow the instructions found on the
confirmation page.
MULTIPLE COURSES:
You may take more than one
course at a time. As in any other college, most students take several
classes at the same time. Other students, because of time constraints,
only take one course at a time. That choice is completely up to you.
You decide how you want to proceed with your education; but, be aware that the
more courses you take to run concurrently, the sooner you will earn your
degree. And the fewer you take, the longer it will take to reach your
goal.
However, be aware of all constraints on your time from all areas of your
life. Do not overload yourself to the point where you become frustrated
that you don't have enough time to properly do you homework for the
courses. If that happens, do not just give up and stop all
together. Simply put some of the courses on hold and continue with the
ones that you do have time to work on properly. Just send us an email
informing us of the situation and we will keep your dropped courses active and
then you can simply start them up again when you have time, continuing on from
the spot where you had stopped.
CLICK HERE
TO GO TO PART FOUR OF THE TUTORIAL
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