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**Welcome to the [|Prairie South School Division]Quick Page**
[|Distance Education in the Prairie South School Division]

Take classes Any Time, Any Where, Any Place, Any Pace
 * Vision:**

Our distance education is offered via our Moodle server. We have also just recently purchased 10 seats in Elluminate. Each seat can have 100 participants.
 * Platform:**

We are currently developing the 3 grade 11 maths being offered next year. For development we are using livescribe pens and Camtasia to digitize mathematical concepts which are posted to our video server. We are looking at ways we can have a hands-on approach to learning mathematical concepts in the Workplace & Apprenticeship 20 course.
 * Development:**

We are currently talking/surveying our students on grade 11 math course selection for the 2011 school year. By the end of March we will have approximate numbers for our online maths. Our enrollment numbers will help us plan for next year. We currently have approximately 350 seats offered. Next year we are expanding to 425 seats. Students can enroll at any time and finish at any time. If a student takes a course all year - typically they complete 30% of the course is semester I and 70% in semester II.
 * Enrollment:**

Staff work from all locations throughout our school division. Staff are provided laptops, graphics tablets, external hard drives, jump drives, headsets/mics & software. We meet face-to-face at the end of the summer before school starts and one time in the spring. We also meet virtually during the year.
 * Model:**

The school which the online teacher works in delivers the online course. At the division level we have an administrative assistant who enters in student demographics and marks into the individual schools SIS. The school administrative assistant is responsible for electronically publishing the student information to the SDS.

We purchase resources centrally and catalog them centrally. Students request text books which are delivered via our inter-school mail. Texts are signed out to the school. The cooperating teacher manages the text at the school and when the student has completed the course the text book is returned to our central location.

Students taking online courses have a cooperating teacher. The cooperating teacher is very important to the success of the online student. Administrators are encouraged to schedule online students into a classroom during their online time. Students work at a computer/desk during their online time - usually when another class is being taught. Cooperating teachers are not expected to help online students with course content - only to monitor them, provide technical support, administer assessments and also communicate with the online teacher.

Students attending a school in the Prairie South School Division in need of an online program are our priority. Our mandate is to provide equitable access to courses. Students without access to the course within their school have priority over students who have the ability to take the class in a regular face-to-face environment. Students outside of the Prairie South School Division can register for online courses if space is still available.

When a student drops one of our online courses we type their drop:
 * 2010-2011 Success Rate:**
 * Type 1: Student has had no response in class
 * Type 2: Student has logged into Moodle a couple of times; however has had no response
 * Type 3: Student has started the course and has withdrawn from the course. (legitimate drop)

When we analyze our data by removing type 1 and type 2 students we have a 93% success rate.


 * Registration:**
 * online.courses@prairiesouth.ca
 * Registration form


 * Contact:** Jeff Boulton [ boulton.jeff@prairiesouth.ca, (306) 691-1605]


 * Courses offered for 2011:**


 * Roger Morgan: [ morgan.roger@prairiesouth.ca ]**
 * Calculus 30
 * Pre-calculus 20, 30


 * Shelly Stamm: [ stamm.shelly@prairiesouth.ca ]**
 * Foundations 20, 30
 * Chemistry 20,30


 * Michelle O'Brien:[ o'brien.michelle@prairiesouth.ca ]**
 * Workplace & Apprenticeship 20, 30
 * Accounting 10,20,30


 * Patricia Yeske:[ yeske.patricia@prairiesouth.ca ]**
 * Psychology 20,30


 * Rachel Boughen: [ boughen.rachel@prairiesouth.ca ]**
 * Core French 90,10,20,30


 * Ed Fahl: [ fahl.ed@prairiesouth.ca ]**
 * CWEX 20,A30,B30
 * Law 30