All things Class
Courses you take by computer instead of in a traditional classroom
What is a Online Class
What Does EDGE stand for
Earn A Degree, Graduate Early
a teacher of the highest rank in a college or university.
Your Liaison between High School and College (TCC)
TCC Dual Credit Coordinator ( Deleise & Lindsay)
Type of academic term, usually either in the Fall or Spring.
What is a semester?
The average of all of the course grades you have received, on a four-point scale.
What is Grade Point Average?
A degree awarded to undergraduates, usually after four years of college classes
What is a Bachelor's degree?
Colleges require you to purchase these or rent them for most classes.
Textbooks
The person who makes your class schedule and works at the high school.
What is a High School Counselor?
A "record" of a student's academic progress, including all courses taken, grades, completion for each course, and GPA.
What is a Transcript?
The site you will use to view and complete course work. (Access through MYTCC)
Your main course of study
What is a Major?
A description of a course which also lists the dates of major exams, assignments, and projects
What is a Syllabus
A group of that have been are grouped into learning arrangements who begin and complete learning experiences with the same students throughout most of their time in an academic program.
What is a cohort?
A class that must be taken before you can take a different class
What is a prerequisite?
Online “web-conference style” courses meet at a designated time and students are required to be present online, live at that time.
Online Live
The name of the exam you took for course placement.
What is a Accuplacer ?
Time set aside by professors for students to visit and ask questions or discuss the course
A school official, usually assigned by the college, who can help make sure you're taking the right courses to graduate
What is an Advisor?
A type of degree awarded to students at a US community college such as TCC
What is an Associates Degree?
Removing a course from your class list after the (100% Refund) Add/Drop period has ended.
What is a Withdraw?
A class you can take that is not specifically required by your major or minor?
What is a Elective?
A federal privacy law that gives parents certain protections with regard to their children's education records, such as report cards, transcripts, disciplinary records, contact and family information, and class schedules.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
The person in charge of everything money for a college or university. (Hint: They put on your tuition waivers)
What is a Bursar?
To attend a class without receiving academic credit
What is an Audit?