Georgia Virtual School (GAVS) is a program of the Georgia Department of Education designed to serve public, private and home schooled students throughout the state. The program is fully accredited by SACS. Since its inception in 2005, over 10,000 students have earned credit in their local schools by taking such diverse GAVS offerings as Chinese, AP Music Theory, and Broadcast TV. GAVS courses are rigorous and are taught by highly qualified Georgia certified teachers. In the GAVS program Georgia certified teachers guide students through each course on a traditional semester pacing. All courses are available on the Internet around the clock.
REQUIREMENTS
Students wishing to take an online course should be aware the Georgia Virtual courses are rigorous, college preparatory level classes. A one unit class will take 10 to 15 hours per week to complete. Assignments will be due biweekly with very little allowance for late work. These courses are for self-disciplined, strong students. During summer session assignments are due daily.
COURSE OFFERINGS
A wide variety of academic and elective courses are offered at the secondary level. The fall semester (A), spring semester (B), and block (AB) version of each class is taught every semester with few exceptions.
Click HERE for the complete course offerings for this school year.
FEE
$300 per half unit
REGISTRATION
SUMMER Registration Deadline: May 25th (June 7th Last Day to Pay)
NO LATE APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED
GAVS Registration Steps
STEP 1: STUDENT CREATES ACCOUNT
You will need your GTID (available from your counselor or the Guidance Secretary) and an active email address to create your account
- To create a new account, please visit Create My Account
- If you have already created an account, please login.
- If you have forgotten your account username and password, please look it up
- If you are still unable to login, please contact us here.
Next, create your parent account. The Student Account must be created FIRST.
Within 24-hours after you create your account, you will have access to your D2L email account. All e-mail communication will be sent to this account. Be sure to check this email account regularly.
STEP 2: STUDENT APPLIES FOR COURSES
- Once your account is created, you can login and apply for classes.
- Carefully select the correct term (semester) and course.
- The school will then approve or deny the application (24-48hr turnaround time)
- If approved, you will see a message in red after you login. The message will tell you that there are one or more classes requiring payment. Use VISA or M/C to pay online through the student account.
- Once payment has been received, student is eligible to be enrolled by the school (24-48hr turnaround time)
- FALL Payment Deadlines: September 1st (AP Classes): September 15th (Non-AP Classes)
STEP 3: STUDENT ORIENTATION CLASS.
- Within 24 hours of being enrolled, student clicks either ‘MyClasses’ or ‘Going to Orientation’.
- At the GA Virtual Course homepage, student clicks on Student Orientation over to the right side of the page.
- At the Orientation class homepage, student reads everything carefully, and then clicks Content to see the units to be completed.
- Student should print Checklist from top menu bar, or from the Welcome unit to use as a To-do list.
- Student works through each unit; each are tied to each other so no skipping around!
- Although students may opt out of the Orientation, if students find themselves having difficulty navigating the online format, they should complete the orientation.
- Within 24 hours of successfully completing Student Orientation, the student will be able to login and click “Going to class”. Click the name of the class to get to the class homepage.
STEP 4: TAKING THE CLASS
- Again, read the class NEWS ITEMS on the course homepage carefully, jotting down the instructor’s contact information, and seeing how to let the instructor know which weeks schedule you want to be on – 18, 17, 16, 15 weeks.
- Print the checklist
- Start with Content and work carefully through the units
- COMMUNICATE if there are any problems:
- information@gavirtualschool.org-for registration issues
- orientation@gavirtualschool.org-for orientation problems
- Contact the instructor for questions about the course!
PARENT INFORMATION
You will be able to log in to your child’s online gradebook to monitor progress throughout the course. Teachers keep in constant contact with you via email and phone calls.
So, be sure to create your parent account. The Student Account must be created FIRST.
GRADES
Georgia Virtual School course grades are updated weekly and are posted to transcripts at the end of the semester. Both students and parents have access to the course online gradebook at all times. An automated message system will notify parents by email or phone weekly about a student’s progress.
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