You work on your own and at your own location, using texts, study guides and other course materials sent to you by the College. You must complete specific lesson assignments, and you must take mid-term and final exams. When you enroll in a Guided Study course, you are assigned a faculty mentor who will answer your course-related questions and grade your assignments and exams. Many of the courses offer e-mail enhancements.
Courses involve reading, writing and audio or video components.
Students use a computer and modem to connect to instructional sessions where they participate in group discussions and receive instruction from a faculty mentor. Students and their faculty mentors also use e-mail facilities to send and respond to course assignments. The quizzes are graded immediately and the student receives feedback on responses to each question while connected to the Web. In this way, the student is guided to areas that require further study. The chapter quizzes can be taken multiple times until mastered since they do not contribute to the course grade.