CALCampus courses are designed and taught by qualified instructors for individual, one-to-one study, as opposed to pre-scheduled group classes. This provides the benefit of a high level of individualization and attention to the student's needs. Students work offline and use the online medium for communication with their instructors and for submitting homework.
Course Materials
1) Most courses use a hardcopy textbook that the student buys. Each course description specifies if a textbook is needed, and those are available for ordering through the Bookstore in our Online Campus. CALCampus uses course textbooks that are published by nationally-recognized, educational publishers, following national standards.
2) Some courses also provide teacher-written lessons that are either in hypertext form readable with a common Web browser, or text lessons that are printed. These are provided online for downloading by CALCampus at no extra fee
3) Each course has its own syllabus which is e-mailed to the student by the teacher at the beginning of the course.
Honor System
CALCampus operates on the Honor System. This system presumes that the student
will do his/her own academic work and all assignments submitted for evaluation
will be done solely by the student. All research assignments must be clearly documented according to standard citation guidelines.
Exams
Under our Honor System, students do their exams offline at their home location without a proctor. However, we can and will accommodate proctored final exams, if requested.
Homework and Teacher-Student Interaction
We use traditional instructional methods. There are weekly homework assignments, projects, exams, and research papers. Students study on their own weekly schedule, prepare homework offline, usually with a word processor, and send assignments to the course teacher each week. Communication with instructors is done through Internet e-mail.
Your instructors are available to you not only through e-mail, but also through weekly online office periods during which you may stop by to chat in our Online Campus. Additional meetings with your instructor may be scheduled, by appointment.
Homework assignments and tests are evaluated by the course instructor and students receive comments and guidance as they progress through
their courses.
Rolling Admissions
We have individual rolling admissions which allows students to enter at any time throughout the year.
Course Durations
Most courses are designed to be completed within the range of 8 to 12 weeks, although we allow students to work longer on their courses. In some cases, we approve a shorter completion time, but we do not approve of rapid completions that do not allow enough time for the student to adequately assimilate the learning that is taking place. If a request is made for completion in shorter than eight weeks, the administration will confer with the CALCampus instructor before approving the registration. For high school students using a course for transfer into their high school, the high school counselor and/or parent will also be contacted to discuss the request.
Registration and Admissions Procedure
For individual courses, after we have received your course registration form, you are e-mailed by the Registrar with official confirmation of course enrollment. Then, you are e-mailed by your instructor and provided with a course syllabus which is a roadmap of readings and assignments. For diploma program admission, the Director provides individualized academic counseling during the planning stage of your enrollment. Thereafter, the Registrar contacts you as detailed in the individual course registration above.
Student Account
As a CALCampus student, you will have your own CALCampus User ID
and password, which you will use to enter the online campus whenever you wish.
The campus allows you to download course materials and to communicate with your
instructors. CALCampus facilities (libraries, administrative communications, conference rooms, Web site, Web applications, etc.) are provided through dedicated Web and Application servers, owned by CALCampus and designed specifically by our administration to fulfill CALCampus operations.
