The Minnesota Distance Learning Academy has trained and contracted with Minnesota certified teachers to facilitate these Internet courses. The courses have been developed by a development team that ensures the content of each course maps to Minnesota State Graduation Rule standards. The courses are structured in units and sections. An easy to use menu bar helps students navigate through the course. This also allows students access to previous information for reference and enables them to begin daily course activity from the point of last session exit.
Students typically take quizzes and tests online at the end of each unit.
All courses feature a standard Toolbar that links students to important course tools. One click on the Tools button brings up a menu that lets students see the contents of the course, their course notebook, a communications center for writing to the teacher or other students, a search tool to find topics within the course, their Grade Report, a help system, and other related information. Contents Viewer From the Toolbar, students have access to the Contents Viewer, or course site map, which is a visual representation of the course's content. The Viewer is collapsible or expandable, with color-coding viewed in either tree or outline format. Yellow highlights indicate places that the student has been within the course.