CC+ Class Questions

There are lots of questions coming my way every hour of every day related to how things will work with the remote schedule, but there is no question that the most common question has been about the CSCC CC+ Classes.

Let me first remind you that I am NOT talking about your COTC Math CC+ classes.  Those classes are taught by a WKHS teacher and are functioning EXACTLY like all of the other WKHS classes.

But the CSCC classes... those are taught by professors from CSCC and they are COMPLETELY different from the WKHS classes.

You need to forget what we talked about last winter when you were doing your schedule planning and we talked about how classes would meet for 2 periods twice a week.  That is gone now.  CSCC is completely online.  There is NOT a designated meeting time for your classes.  You will do the work when it works for you and you MUST stay on top of it.  I know that for some students, this will be a struggle.  You know yourself and what you can juggle.  If you are not going to be successful in this format, let's talk about your schedule and if keeping the CSCC CC+ class in this completely remote format is going to be setting you up for success or failure.  There is no question you are smart enough to do this work - it is just going to be a question of are you prepared to be disciplined enough to do the work.

Yes, I know your schedules still show your CSCC CC+ classes during particular periods.  In Infinite Campus that is to help reflect what you are actually taking.  On the sheets that they printed out what your schedule would look like - don't worry about where they put or didn't put the CC+ courses.  The mail merge didn't really know what to do with those classes because they aren't typical HS courses - they take up 2 periods and there were often two classes set in the same periods... so the computer didn't know how to process all of that on your print out.  Please don't let that stress you out or confuse you!

The bottom line is that your HS classes are synchronous.  You will all log in at the same time on the same days and learn the same material.

Your CSCC CC+ classes are ASYNCHRONOUS.  Meaning that you will NOT be online with your whole class working at the same time.

One thing that I actually do love about this new format is that all of you who are taking a CC+ class will hopefully get practice in reaching out to your professors through their office hours.  This is something that a lot of times when the professors are coming to Kilbourne to teach students don't always take advantage of, but now, since the teaching will be so different, I am thankful that you will get used to using the office hours of your professors.  Looking back at my college years, that is one of the greatest lessons I had to learn and it paid off in many ways to be able to meet and work with my professors through their office hours.  So this is not all bad, but it will be different... and it IS different than your WKHS classes.

Keep sending me your questions.  I want to make sure you feel as prepared for Monday as possible!