Flexible Scheduling – Reduced Attendance and By Recording
- TPS credit for a TPS course assumes regular live attendance and participation.
- Occasional absence may be excused by parent notification to TPS and the teacher.
- Excessive consecutive or recurring absences may result in loss of TPS transcript credit for the course (unless the course is being taken as No TPS Credit (i.e., no TPS transcript) status).
- TPS College and AP courses may be enrolled for TPS credit with reduced attendance or solely by recording to accommodate time zone or schedule constraints.
- For courses other than AP or College, on a case by case basis TPS may authorize in writing a student to take a class with reduced attendance or solely by recording while still receiving TPS Credit for the course.
How does TPS Flexible Scheduling work for AP and college dual credit courses?
- When you enroll in a TPS AP or TPS College course, you have the option to select Recording Only.
- TPS will review your enrollment and approve you for Recording Only (i.e., no live attendance) if you are academically prepared for the course but have a schedule or time zone conflict.
- If you have a schedule conflict that will limit your attendance but will still allow you to attend regularly (e.g., you must miss one day each week of a two-day course), you may contact TPS to make this flexible arrangement without selecting Recording Only.
- We keep track of Recording Only enrollments so we can manage live class sizes for attending students.
- The Recording Only option is not available for a few select courses that require significant graded class participation for course credit.
- These include spoken language courses (e.g., French, Spanish) and discussion-based courses (e.g., High Scholars, College Creative Writing).
- For these courses, if you have a schedule conflict that will limit your attendance but still allow you to attend at least half of the live classes, please contact TPS to obtain our authorization in writing prior to enrolling for the reduced attendance enrollment for credit.
May I take other courses (not AP or college dual credit) with reduced attendance or By Recording only?
- Reduced Attendance
- For any course, if you have a schedule conflict that will limit your attendance but will still allow you to attend regularly (e.g., you must miss one day each week of a two-day course), you may contact TPS to request this flexible arrangement.
- TPS must approve the request in writing for you to receive TPS credit for the course with reduced attendance.
- By Recording
- Except for TPS AP and College Dual Credit courses, Recording Only is usually not an option that can be chosen by the family at enrollment.
- Exceptions include SAT/ACT Prep, Grammar 1 and 2, Chemistry Problem Solving.
- These may be optionally selected as By Recording in the enrollment Cart.
- In special cases, we will consider a Recording Only enrollment for other courses.
- Parent must request TPS Support authorization in writing prior to enrolling.
- We must have prior recent history with the student in TPS courses of the same subject area, so we may determine viability of the request.
- Will be considered only to accommodate a time zone or other constraint that precludes taking a course in any available section.
- Recording Only will not be considered for spoken language courses.
- We require at least 50% attendance and participation to credit the spoken language course. Even in No TPS Credit (i.e., no TPS transcript) status, it is academically inconsistent to provide a spoken language course without actual speaking.
- If you have a schedule conflict that will limit your attendance but still allow you to attend at least 50% of the live classes, please request TPS Support authorization in writing prior to enrolling to enrolling for the reduced attendance enrollment.
- Except for TPS AP and College Dual Credit courses, Recording Only is usually not an option that can be chosen by the family at enrollment.