Multiple online providers on a transcript?

[ByGrace3]

How do you handle this? My dd is only in 10th grader and has already taken high school classes with Schole, College Prep Science, Berean Builders, and Mr. D. Next year we will add DE to the list. Does that look bad? Do we List all of those? How?

Also, both my kids are taking online classes this year through a local school, the classes are online -- they aren't even officially registered, they are only in the classes because I am teaching them. I wasn't planning on adding the school to the transcript, I was just going to put it down as a regular mom taught class. Is that ok? Any downside to that? 

Classes like Lantern English that give them a grade . . . I was just planning as putting them as  mom taught as well. I haven't decided if I will just combine that with the grammar she is doing and call it English 10, but what about the online American Literature class she is in? To combine all 3 sounds like she is getting cheated....it's a lot of work to all count for one credit. What do you think?

[RootAnn]

You can use your Course Description document to indicate what each credit includes & from whom it was taken. Most will include a little blurb about each provider in theor school profile under Education Partners but I didn't. Some people have a superscript codes for each provider but I only noted DE on the transcript. 

I had about 10 different online providers for DD#1 & noted in our school profile that I was able to customize her education through my use of the best fit for her each year & subject.

Your transcript, your school, your rules in terms of how you give credit. Lots of this covered in past threads. If you have an hour or two, check out the pinned threads at the top of the high school page. :)

here's a thread where someone asks about this, but especially how to include co-op classes.

Edited December 23, 2020 by RootAnn
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[Corbster98]

My oldest is a junior in college now. In high school, he took a mix of classes that included home taught, online as well as some part- time Christian school classes and a few dual credit courses. 

I created his transcript with just listing the titles of the classes along with grade earned and credit awarded.  For the Christian school and dual credit classes only, I marked those with an asterisk of sorts and noted on the bottom of the transcript where those particular classes were taken. Then had those particular schools also send their transcript with grade given. 

None of the colleges my son applied to wanted course descriptions or asked for anything beyond the transcript. That likely varies greatly but was our experience. 

 

Edited December 24, 2020 by allySW

[fourisenough]

4 hours ago, RootAnn said:

You can use your Course Description document to indicate what each credit includes & from whom it was taken. Most will include a little blurb about each provider in theor school profile under Education Partners but I didn't. Some people have a superscript codes for each provider but I only noted DE on the transcript. 

I had about 10 different online providers for DD#1 & noted in our school profile that I was able to customize her education through my use of the best fit for her each year & subject.

Your transcript, your school, your rules in terms of how you give credit. Lots of this covered in past threads. If you have an hour or two, check out the pinned threads at the top of the high school page. 🙂

here's a thread where someone asks about this, but especially how to include co-op classes.

This is exactly how I’m planning to handle this issue with my DD next year when we apply.

[teachermom2834]

We have used many online providers/co-op classes/dual enrollment. The only ones I denote on the transcript are de. The others I just name the course "Biology w/ lab" or "Geometry-Honors" or something like that. I don't explain anywhere on the transcript where the courses came from. The de classes I use the official name of the course, course number, and there is an asterik of sorts that denotes it was de at the specific university.

If I had to do course descriptions I would explain there. I haven't needed to do them for any schools my dc have applied to and I haven't opted to include them optionally. But if I did, that is where I would put that info.

Our transcripts would be a mess if I was denoting all the specific places dc took classes. Additionally, I still think of those as just the way we accomplished the class. I don't believe it makes the transcript look better or add any weight to have used another source. Most colleges aren't going to have any idea what to do with saying a class is from MPOA or WTMA or local county co-op. To me, that is like saying what text we used. That would go in the course description, not the transcript.

Disclaimer- I am not of the belief that "mommy grades" need to be verified beyond the ACT/SAT score.

[klmama]

Course name, grade, and credit on the transcript, with pertinent details in the course description.  The exception would be any dual enrollment classes or courses taken at the local high school or at another traditionally-recognized school that graduates students and provides a transcript.  

For the online classes you teach that your dc are in, you shouldn't list that they took the courses at the school unless the school is willing to issue a transcript.  All official transcripts need to be submitted with college applications.  That doesn't apply if it's a provider like WTMA or some other homeschool course provider that isn't actually a school.  Colleges generally consider those courses the same as they consider courses taught at home.

 

[EKS]

On 12/23/2020 at 4:57 AM, ByGrace3 said:

How do you handle this?

On my kids' transcripts, only credit granting schools were specified (each with its own code).  All other providers (online, tutors, etc) were referenced in the course descriptions.

Edited December 29, 2020 by EKS

[lewelma]

On 12/26/2020 at 5:50 AM, EKS said:

On my kids' transcripts, only credit granting schools were specified (each with its own code).  All other providers (online, tutors, etc) were referenced in the course descriptions only.

Agreeing with this, but I also included an AoPS designation on the transcript as they are an accredited school and of known high quality.  

[historically accurate]

My transcript had class name, date completed, and grade only. I did have footnotes on the transcript for "Dual Enrollment at X College", "Class through online provider", and "Co-op class". Then, in the class descriptions, the last line of each description was "Class taken at X provider/at home, 1/.5 credits received".

[Farrar]

Another vote to only put them in the course descriptions. I've seen a lot of transcripts where parents insist on putting them on the transcript and while I think it's not going to hurt the student, I also think it also doesn't look great. Unless the courses are from a couple of places, like maybe CTY, there's no way colleges have heard of them or care at all. I think a lot of people think it's better to try and show that some outside teacher gave some of those grades, but colleges aren't thinking about it like that. And if they want to know, they'll look at the course descriptions.

[ByGrace3]

Thanks everyone, this was very helpful!