Learning Technology
Students, families, and teachers at Provost Academy South Carolina are supported by a robust system of technology specially designed to be easy to use, clearly track and report learning progress, and make the educational experience unique and enjoyable.
Student Portal
Student Portal is a personal home page where a student can quickly and easily access all of their online learning tools in one location. This includes daily lessons, assignments and tests, grades and academic progress reports, upcoming deadlines, recent attendance, achievement intervention alerts and status, school and course announcements and more! Students can also communicate with instructors and advisors through our internal messaging system and contribute to blogs and forums.
Online Classroom
Our live classroom environment is the 21st century version of a classroom! Students can do almost anything they could in a normal classroom from the comfort of their own home, and with fewer distractions from classmates. Our live online classroom includes the ability to listen and talk, participate in verbal and written discussions, hear and view lectures and presentations, and learn from an instructors writing on a virtual white board. Student's can even "raise their hand" to ask a question, or add to a discussion. Students can take notes in their personal online notebook, and lectures can be recorded for reference at a later date.
Testing and Academic Progress
At PASC each student, teacher, and parent can quickly and easily know a student's academic progress at any time. Students take tests and quizzes daily in every course, and this progress is clearly reported in the student and parent home page. Our technology system also uses daily quiz information to determine if a student is falling behind. If a student falls behind, the system generates an automatic alert which will be used to get the student immediately back on track, and adjust the student's individual learning plan if necessary. These alerts can be seen by all of the student's support team, including the academic advisor, instructors, graders and parents.
Grades and Assignments
Students, parents, and instructional staff can see grades and upcoming assignments quickly and easily on their home page. Daily quizzes and other multiple choice assignments are graded automatically by the system so that students have immediate feedback.
Attendance and Usage Information
Attendance is automatically tracked and alerts are sent for unexcused absences. At any time, instructional staff can see where students have spent their time in a course, exactly what content has been accessed, and for how long. This helps them to understand and assist when students are experiencing problems, or to suggest that a student explores additional resources to meet his or her full potential.
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