There are print, telecourse, teleweb, interactive video, Internet, and personal computer based course offerings. Whenever a course has a campus visit required, it is clearly described in the course description. Some courses require no campus visits, while others may require several visits. Speech classes, for example, require several campus visits a semester. Some Early Childhood courses have student-teaching components and, while not requiring a campus visit, may require visits to other sites.
Some courses require campus-based testing, and some assessment tests are administered on a campus.
All of the community colleges act as testing sites, and often a mutually agreeable proctor is an acceptable alternative to a campus testing center. In sum, whenever it is necessary for the instructional program, site visits will be required but clearly described in a course description before a student registers. An initiative of the Consortium, however, is to identify sites throughout Pennsylvania with educational partners to minimize any travel. Students pay the appropriate tuition rate to the community college offering the course. This rate differs depending on whether the student resides in a sponsored area or an unsponsored area.