Edited sentence: As such, these students now qualify for federal student aid.In 2006, due largely to the efforts attributed to the Apollo group, the "50 percent" rule, which requires colleges and universities to conduct half of their instruction in person in order to receive federal aid or collect federal student loans, was modified.It no longer classifies students receiving instruction through telecommunications methods as correspondence students.The Department of Education requires that this method must include a significant amount of interactivity, to prevent correspondence programs from skirting the rule by using minor emails or posting course materials like syllabi on their websites