The Elementary CoNNect program offers online opportunities for kindergarten to grade seven students to add to, and enhance their regular distance education print based program . This multi-media approach has been successful in supporting a much broader spectrum of learning styles. Students are assigned to an 'online' teacher and can communicate with their teacher and other students via e-mail, real time chat, and through classroom conferences . Students are able to email other students online to make friends and discuss schoolwork.
Teachers give online support and evaluate work submitted electronically.
Feedback and direction given by the teacher is quicker and more relevant to the individual student's learning. To see examples of an on-line classroom, click here . Students at the elementary level receive support at home from a parent or home instructor to guide them through the modules.