Academic Policies
Students can bypass a level with a grade of 90 in SSP and RW, and this grade in all of their final evaluations.
What is an 85?
These are conducted twice a year for regular instructors
What are formal observations?
This 2026 film starring Matt Damon gives the general public a sense of what it's like to use our proprietary LMS throughout the session.
What is The Odyssey?
The first ELS center opened in this year.
What is 1961?
Students will automatically fail the level when they fall below this level of attendance in a session.
What is 80%?
Instructor surveys should be reviewed this often.
What is monthly?
These students are not registered for class and have to be manually changed to "Placed".
What are EFE and SIEP students?
In addition to the US, there are currently ELS centers in these two countries.
What are Malaysia and Panama?
These types of professional development activities should occur at least twice per year.
What are benchmarking activities?
Newly hired instructors can get this amount of paid training?
What is 12 hours?
This platform serves as more user friendly companion to Odyssey and contains various reports and documents.
What is PowerBI?
Chris has held every position at an ELS center except for this one (not including all levels of instructor).
What is an International Student Advisor (ISA)?
112+ students are allowed to study for number of sessions after they complete 112.
What is five?
Instructors' RAPs are based on this date.
What is their date of hire?
These can be manually sent through Odyssey to students prior to their arrival. It will help you on First Monday!
What is a PROLA invitation?
The first ELS center opened on the campus of this American university in Washington DC.