“In a distance education context, documenting that a student has logged into an online class is not sufficient, by itself, to demonstrate academic attendance by the student. A school must demonstrate that a student participated in class or was otherwise engaged in an academically related activity.

Examples of acceptable evidence of academic attendance and attendance at an academically related activity in a distance education program include:

• • student submission of an academic assignment,
  • student submission of an exam,
  • documented student participation in an interactive tutorial or computer-assisted instruction,
  • a posting by the student showing the student’s participation in an online study group that is assigned by the institution,
  • a posting by the student in a discussion forum showing the student’s participation in an online discussion about academic matters, and
  • an email from the student or other documentation showing that the student initiated contact with a faculty member to ask a question about the academic subject studied in the course.”

Some examples might include a:

• • syllabus quiz or other course related assessment
  • student bio or introduction discussion forum
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  • short written assignment where students submit a few sentences of written text, a video, etc. about their goals, what they want to learn in the class, fears, etc.

Have other examples to share? Email your Distance Education Coordinator Jennifer Fowler at jfowler@peralta.edu to add it to this page!