This article explains how to set up dual enrollment classes, or classes where a student is receiving college credit and the teaching instructor is a college instructor. If you need to set up a dual credit class, or a class where the teaching instructor is a high school instructor, please refer to this article.

This article will cover the following topics

Setting up the Dual Credit Site

To report the college that will accept credit for a class, a dual credit site will be set on the class. Before getting started, make sure to create external schools for any colleges that will accept credit from your school. Please refer to this article for instructions on how to create external schools.

Taking the class onsite at a college

When a student is taking a dual enrollment class onsite at the college, the course, class, and roster entry will be created in SchoolInsight. When creating the class, fill the instructor field. While DESE does not require an instructor to be reported for onsite dual enrollment classes, to appear on the Course and Student assignment, an instructor needs to be assigned in SchoolInsight. After you download the files, remove the instructor from the college classes and upload it into DESE.

To create a dual enrollment onsite class:

Go To School Main > Classes/Sections
Create New Class
Enter in the Course
Enter an Instructor
Set the Section number
Set the Dual Credit Site where the class was taken.
Set Site type to College
Save

Note that when dual enrollment is taken over the summer, it is reported in the following June Cycle Course Completion. It is not reported in the August Cycle Course Completion

Taking the class virtually

When a student is taking a dual enrollment class virtually, the college instructor must be reported in the system. Since the instructor will not be logging in, the instructor MOSIS Only setting should be set to “Yes”.

To create the college instructor:

Go To School Main > Instructors > Create Instructors
Enter teacher First Name, Last Name, Email Address
Set Self Contained to No
Set MOSIS Only to Yes
Save

In-School

To create a dual enrollment in-school virtual class:

Go To School Main > Classes/Sections > Create Class
Create Class
Search/Select the Course
Set the Section number
Select the college Instructor
Set the Dual Credit Site for the college that will receive credit
Set Site Type to College
Set Course Delivery System to V - Virtual Class
Set Student Placement to Onsite
Set the Virtual Provider
Save

Offsite

When at home, you also need to set the students virtual hours for attendance purposes.

To create a dual enrollment in-school virtual class:

Go To School Main > Classes/Sections > Create Class
Search/Select the Course
Set the Section Number
Set the college Instructor
Set the Dual Credit site for the college that will receive credit
Set Site Type to College
Set Course Delivery System to V - Virtual Class
Set Student Placement to Offsite
Set the Virtual Attendance Hours Per Day.
Set the Total Virtual Attendance Hours for Class
Set the Virtual Provider
Save

Taking the class via Instructional TV (ITV)

For ITV instruction, the student is taking the class at the school via instructional television (ITV). This scenario includes technology such as Skype or interactive technology that allows for interactive feedback.

To create a dual enrollment ITV class:

Go To School Main > Classes/Sections > Create Class
Search/Select Course
Set the Section Number
Select the college instructor
Set the Dual Credit Site where the class was taken.
Set Site type to ITV
Save

Virtual Attendance Hours Per Day

Daily in-seat hours equivalent to the hours if the course was offered at the school. For example, if the virtual course is equivalent to 1 class period and a class period is 1 hour, then the Virtual Attendance Hours Per Day is 1.

Total Virtual Attendance Hours for Class

Total equivalent in-seat hours for the duration of the course, if the course were to be offered at the school. For example, if the virtual course is equivalent to 1 class period and a class period is 1 hour and would meet 5 days a week for a total of 9 weeks, the total virtual attendance hours is 45.