1 New & Prospective DL Student 2 Returning Students 3 Planning your classes 4 AFTER you've Registered
Learning ONLINE requires a 'self-motivated-can-do' philosophy.
To determine if distance learning is for you, consider the following questions:
- Do I have college-level writing and reading skills?
- Can I devote 10-15 hours, per week to 1 online class? (more classes = more time!)
- Do I have access to an Internet connected computer at least 2 hours, per day?
- Do I have an e-mail acount? (required for Distance Learning)
- Am I comfortable with sending file attachments & using a web browser?
- "IS ONLINE FOR ME" Quiz: http://www.waol.org/getStarted/isonline4me.asp
If you even hesitated to answer yes to the above questions, you may find the Distance Learning environment challenging.
Distance Learning, whether online or video cassette based, requires a structured schedule -- a balance of your time around the requirements of the course.
You will be required to learn from reading materials such as: textbooks, Internet articles and written lectures.
Because the online classroom environment is typically missing the face-to-face interaction with people in a classroom, many online classes require web-based online communication interactation between the instructors and/or other students. This often comes in form of e-mail, bulltetin boards and chat rooms.
- All NEW (DL and/or Campus) students must go through ADMISSIONS before they can register for any college class. To do this 'online' please view these important instructions (This link opens a new browser window and then runs a 32 second video, with sound, demonstrating how to fill out the online Web Admissions form)
- After viewing the above instructions link, go to the Web Admissions page to set up your 1st account (select Set Up My Web Admissions Account)
- Take a COMPASS or ESL/COMPASS placement test - (206) 768-6767
You do not have to take an assessment/placment exam if you have an official transcript listing college-level English 101 and Math 102 with a grade point of 2.0 or higher. All 100-299 level courses require COMPASS scores in Writing (68) and Reading (77), except as noted in individual course prerequisites. http://www.southseattle.edu/resources/sas.htm
- Schedule a 30 minute Advising appointment -
(206) 764-5387
- Pick Up A Financial Aid Application Packet (go to Registration office on campus)
- AFTER you get your Student Identification Number [SID] (via the Admissions process, as described above), view our DL Course Listings to plan your DL classes. Then register and pay for your classes. Registration questions? Call (206) 764-7938.
- CLICK HERE -for more detailed online ADMISSIONS/ENROLLMENT information (a new browser window will open, taking you to the main SSCC campus website)
- Does anyone contact me after I've registered? It's your responsibility to get and Stay In Touch
- SSCC online course- taught by SSCC faculty using Blackboard (a course management application) as their classroom platform. Course item number ends with section number ".70 and .71"
- SSCC online course - taught by SSCC faculty using their own website or through the Tech Ed site for online computer courses at http://southseattleonline.com/. Course item number ends with section number ".70 and .71"
- SSCC online WAOL course - offered through the Washington Online Consortium (WAOL) - www.waol.org. WAOL (Washington Online) courses are a special type of course offered by South Seattle Community College. WAOL course item numbers end with section numbers ".72 or .78"
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WAOL courses use a course management web application called "Blackboard"
- WAOL courses follow a different quarter schedule from the other distance courses offered
- WAOL has minimum hardware requirements to take a WAOL course: http://www.waol.org/getstarted/requirements.asp
- WAOL courses require regular participation in a virtual classroom. If you are unfamiliar with this concept, please take the time to view a brief online tutorial: http://www.waol.org/getstarted/weekZero.asp
- SSCC Math courses - 99% of the Math courses are taught by SSCC faculty using Academic Systems, which the students have access to in the Open Computer Lab and through a disk in their textbook.
There is one Math course, MAT 107, offered through WAOL during the year. Course item number ends with section number ".70"
- SSCC telecourse - taught by SSCC faculty where courses meet in-person for 4-6 courses and videos/dvd are used for instruction. Course item number ends with section number ".77"
1 New & Prospective DL Student 2 Returning Students 3 Planning your classes 4 AFTER you've Registered