Some courses are available for students to take who reside outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. Due to class size, many of them have limited availability. Online Courses require students to have access to a computer with an e-mail account and access to the Internet.
Several courses have a television component.
Teleclasses are courses in which the De Anza instructor is televised live from De Anza College. Students can watch on local cable TV in the south San Francisco Bay Area or they can tape record the programs for viewing later. Videotape copies of the teleclasses can be viewed on campus, or checked out for overnight use, at the Open Media Lab. On-campus meetings may be required. Collaborative teleclasses are on-campus courses with required weekly meetings.