TS Section Creation Unavailable

2019-20 TS Section creation is currently unavailable. It is expected to be working again on Monday, August 19, 2019. View full details

Moodle Outage

Moodle will be unavailable Friday, August 23, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. until the evening of Sunday, August 25 for upgrading. We apologize for any inconvenience. View full details

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Sharing of Student Work is Academic Dishonesty

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Similar to your school, program integrity and academic honesty are important at ADLC. Our Plagiarism and Work Sharing policies are in place, but we are observing a growing number of students “sharing” their own work for a particular benefit. In some cases, this may be for payment or profit, and in other cases, it may...

June 30 Completion Date Conditions for Summer Extensions

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ADLC has set June 30 as the completion date for all of our courses for school-aged students. This change was communicated in September of 2018. This means that on June 30, we will withdraw all students from ADLC courses. We are sending out this reminder so that you can make appropriate plans for your students....

Reminder of ADLC Process for Waiving Prerequisites

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In our January 29 communication, we provided information regarding the authority of waiving prerequisites along with an interim procedure on how ADLC could help partner schools facilitate their requests. We have since received requests for processing the waiving prerequisites for courses to which exceptions apply. These exceptions are listed in the Guide to Education (page...

Waiving Prerequisites & ADLC Courses

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2018/19 Interim Process The principal of the school where the primary registration is held has the authority and is responsible for waiving prerequisites for courses. Currently, these principals do not have access in PASI to complete the process for waiving prerequisites for ADLC courses. In the interim, we have implemented a procedure for the school...

Teacher Support Service Reminder

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ADLC is pleased to offer our courses to partner schools as resources. These teacher support courses are not taught by ADLC teachers. Instead, schools use the course content in part or in whole, and teaching and assessing is done by the local school’s teachers.   We wish to remind our Partner school authorities that ADLC...

SIS Changes: 60 Day Withdrawal Process, Communication Window

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60-Day Non-starter Enrollment Withdrawal In the Fall of 2017, we introduced the 90-Day withdrawal process as a way to encourage students to begin their courses fairly soon after registration. Evidence suggested that students are motivated at the time of registration and, therefore, more likely to successfully complete their courses. Based on analysis and feedback received...
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Course Offering Update – ELA9, Social Studies

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New course versions now available! English Language Arts 9 (Student Instruction only) Social Studies 9-4, 10-4, 20-4 (Teacher Support only) View our Course Listing for a complete list of courses we offer.

Heads Up! We Will Be Seeking Your Feedback Soon

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As part of our ongoing efforts to improve services to our partners and students, we will be running a survey this spring. If you are contacted to participate in our survey, we thank you in advance for your response!

Exemplary Community Partner Award – Stephen Lush

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For the past 3 years, Bentley School Teacher Stephen Lush and the Alberta Distance Learning Centre (ADLC) teacher Eliise Jeffers have been working together to deliver the Service Rig Floorhand course to his students.  Jeffers says, “I see Stephen as an equal partner in the work we do together to support his students throughout the...

Course Offering Update

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Second Languages, CTS and CALM Second Language Courses Last school year, some language programs at ADLC, such as French Immersion and the French, Spanish and German programs, were under review. In June 2018, we decided to continue to offer the following Second Language courses: ESL levels 2-5 – online, TS only French 10, 20, and...