Programs

See our program options below, from full time enrollment, to part-time and tuition-payer enrollment.

Full Time Enrollment

Arizona elementary and secondary students can apply for enrollment with Chandler Online Academy. Students are supported by CUSD highly qualified teachers through the online classroom, email, and phone contact. Full-time secondary students have access to Honors and AP level online courses.

See our Course Catalog for a full listing of available courses.

General Information

Tuition Information

There is no cost for Arizona residents to enroll in Chandler Online Academy as a full-time student. Find information on our tuition payer enrollment on our Enroll page.

Course Length

Full-time students at Chandler Online Academy complete courses each semester as follows:

Six 18-week half credit courses at a time
Seniors must be enrolled in at least four 18-week half credit courses at a time

Attendance & Progress

While students enrolled in Chandler Online Academy have a great deal of flexibility around when they can log in to class, they must adhere to weekly attendance and progress requirements to continue to have the option to complete coursework from anywhere, to maintain enrollment in our school, and to earn credits toward graduation.

Requirements (Important, Read Carefully)

Attendance: Full-time students are expected to work on classes a minimum of 25-28 hours each week. Attendance is reported through the student portal no later than 9:00 p.m. every Sunday. Reporting attendance each week is a requirement to maintain enrollment in Chandler Online Academy as a full-time student. To submit attendance and find more information about attendance requirements, please visit our attendance page. The course session begins when enrollment is complete and the student and parent have received the Welcome Email.

Progress: All assignments/assessments should be submitted on or before the day they are due. If a student misses a due date, he/she can submit the assignment/assessment, but the COA Late Work Policy will apply.

CONSEQUENCES of Not Meeting Attendance and Progress Requirements

Students who do are not spending adequate time and making adequate progress in their online cours(es) and/or students who are not submitting attendance will be contacted by COA staff and may have their cours(es) inactivated, have a student success meeting scheduled or may be involuntarily withdrawn from the cours(es). Students will not be allowed to take the course final exam if they have more than 4 zeroes or a grade lower than a 60%.

Parent/Guardian Involvement & Attendance Responsibility

When a student commits to taking online courses with Chandler Online Academy, his/her parent/guardian is also committing to:

Monitoring your student's progress in her/his online classes using your Parent Portal. Parents can view grades through the infinite campus parent portal. Course progress and current course grades can be monitored through a BUZZ parent observer account. The first time your student enrolls in a COA course, you should receive an email (to the email on file in Infinite Campus) with instructions on how to access your BUZZ observer account.
Supporting and providing guidance to the student in managing his/her time
Monitoring Student Reporting of weekly attendance

Accelerated Pace

Students can choose to work at an accelerated pace, with the option to finish a class in as little as 6 weeks. Students should expect to work 10 or more hours on each class each week in order to complete all assignments/assessments

Final Exams

All students taking an online class from Chandler Online Academy are required to take the final exam under the supervision of a test administrator. It is the student's responsibility to schedule to take the final exam before the end-date of his/her class. Final exams must be completed and passed before the Target End Date for each online class.

Steps to schedule a final exam:

When a student has completed all assignments & assessments due in the class, she/he will submit the "Final Exam Clearance" assignment.
The online teacher will check to be sure the student has completed the assignments and has an overall passing grade in the class.
If the student has met these requirements to be eligible to schedule to take the final, the teacher will grade the "Final Exam Clearance" assignment with a 100% score.
A 100% on the "Final Exam Clearance" assignment will give the student access to the next page in the online class, the "Final Exam Scheduler." On the "Final Exam Scheduler," the student will click the link to open the form where she/he will select a date and time to to take the final exam.
The student will be scheduled according to his/her requested day and time. A Confirmation Email with the date and time for when the student will take the final exam will be sent by email to the student.

For more information about testing, directions to our school location, or to schedule your final exam, click HERE.

Withdrawal/Schedule Change Policies

Up to 10 days after the course start-date:* Students may withdraw with no penalty/transcript reporting. Students may also request to change their schedule. Please note that schedule change requests must be sent to your Chandler Online Academy counselor and must be approved by the counselor. Schedule changes will only be made for approved reasons such as enrollment in the wrong course.

11-20 days after the course start-date:* Students who withdraw will receive a grade of W for all courses. There are no schedule changes permitted more than 10 days after the course start-date.

21 or more days after the course start-date:* Students who withdraw or fail to complete the course will receive a final grade of F on their official transcripts.

Involuntary Withdrawal: Students who fail to meet Attendance/Progress Requirements, who fail to log-in for 10 consecutive days, or who engage in behavior that contradicts Chandler Online Academy's Student Code of Conduct, will be withdrawn and receive an F in all courses.

*The course start-dates will be sent to the student in the Welcome Email. The course start-date is also available in each student's e-Learning Classroom.

Refer to Chandler Online Academy's Student Handbook for more information about school policies.

Part-Time & Tuition-Payer Enrollment

Part-Time vs. Tuition-Payer

Tuition-Payer enrollment is for Arizona high school and junior high students wishing to take one or two classes online with Chandler Online Academy while maintaining full schedule of classes at another CUSD or non-CUSD school. Students can take courses they have previously taken online to improve their grade average (grade replacement), replace a failing grade and earn credit required toward graduation (credit recovery), or take a course for the first time online to open space in their schedule during the normal school day for a different class or activity, or work to get ahead and graduate early. For enrollment information click here.

Part-Time enrollment is for students enrolled in less than a full schedule of classes at a CUSD brick & mortar (in-person) school and complete their schedule by taking classes online with Chandler Online Academy. Part-Time enrollment with COA is only available for students taking less than a full schedule of 6 classes at the brick & mortar school. Part-Time students may enroll in a maximum of six 0.5 credit online + brick & mortar classes combined, per semester. Students interested in Part-Time enrollment must have their home school counselor make the recommendation. Parents/guardians will receive an email confirming the recommendation and a welcome email with instructions to access the course will follow. Any additional 0.5 credit online classes beyond the first 6 classes (including all in-person and online classes the student is enrolled in for the semester) will cost $160.00. Part-Time students must pay $160.00 to take a course for grade replacement or credit recovery, and must register for these classes as a Tuition-Payer student with COA. For enrollment information click here.

Examples:

A student taking 4 classes at his/her brick & mortar school could take 2 classes online, for a total of 6 classes without a cost; a student taking 5 classes at his/her home school could take 1 class online with no cost for a complete schedule of 6 classes, but the student would have to pay $160 if she/he needed an additional online class, for a total of 7 classes, or if the 6th class was one the student had taken previously. Students must have approval by a school administrator/counselor at the brick & mortar school in order to enroll as a Part-Time student with COA.

Final Exams

Steps to schedule a final exam:

When a student has completed all assignments & assessments due in the class, she/he will submit the "Final Exam Clearance" assignment.
The online teacher will check to be sure the student has completed the assignments and has an overall passing grade in the class.
Student must have been in the course a minimum of 6 weeks before requesting clearance.
If the student has met these requirements to be eligible to schedule to take the final, the teacher will grade the "Final Exam Clearance" assignment with a 100% score.
A 100% on the "Final Exam Clearance" assignment will give the student access to the next page in the online class, the "Final Exam Scheduler." On the "Final Exam Scheduler," the student will click the link to open the form where she/he will select a date, time, and Testing Center location and submit the request electronically.
The student will be scheduled according to his/her requested day, time, and location preference indicated and Testing Center availability, and a Confirmation Email with the date, time, and location where the student will take the final exam will be sent by email to the student. Students must have their Student ID to take the final exam

Click here for more information about testing, directions to our Testing Center, or to schedule your final exam.

Parent Involvement & Support

Parents play an important role in supporting a student who is taking one or more online courses from home. We strongly encourage parents to check-in with their student each week by asking the student to log in and show them the "Due Soon List" and the "Grades" page for each online class the student is enrolled in. The "Due Soon List" is a list of all assignments and assessments due within the next 7 days. The "Grades" page for each class (Click "Grades" under the name of any course the student is enrolled in from the student's online school homepage) shows all assignments and assessments due to complete the class, the due date for each assignment, when a student has submitted each assignment, and the grade the student received on each assignment. The "Grades" page also shows the student's overall grade in the class and the percent of the assignments/assessments the student has completed.

*** Remember, all assignments must be submitted by the date they are due. *** Students may lose the opportunity to earn full or even partial credit on assignments that are not submitted by the due date, according to the teacher's Late Work Policy (found in the first folder of each class).

It is the responsibility of the online student and parent to be aware of school and course policies. Students must submit all coursework by the due dates and complete all assignments, assessments, and final exam by the Target End Date of each online course. Not doing so will result in a failing grade on the student's official transcript.

Withdrawal Policies / Refunds

Withdrawal Policies

Up to 10 days after the course start-date: Students may withdraw with no penalty/transcript reporting.
11-20 days after the course start-date: Students may withdraw and receive a W for the class.
21 or more days after the course start-date: Students who withdraw or who do not complete all coursework including the proctored exam will receive an F for the class. There are no refunds at this point.
Involuntary Withdrawal: Students who engage in behavior that is considered misconduct (i.e. plagiarism, see the Student Handbook, Student Code of Conduct section) may be withdrawn and will not be eligible for a refund.

Refunds

There are no refunds 3 days after the course start-date. It is strongly advised that students log in regularly (at least 5 days a week) to finish work that is due each week. A $25 processing fee will be deducted from your refund when it is credited back to your original form of payment.