What are Academic Credit Online Courses

Our academic, semester-based courses start and end with the rest of the USU traditional courses and follow all the semester dates, allowing students to take courses from home, but at the normal semester pace. Students are expected to log in regularly, participate in online discussions, group work, and complete all assignments within specified dates.

These courses:

• Are part of degree programs. Students in-state pay standard tuition & fees, out-of-state student pay a per-credit rate.
  Depts. receive 50% of the out-of-state tuition
• Use approved USU course numbers (e.g. ENGL 1010, BIOL 1010, etc.)
• Appear on student transcripts with course credits applied toward degrees
  • 1 credit hour = 1 hour of class time + 2 hours of outside homework x 15 weeks semester.
• Use Canvas to meet online asynchronously (i.e. students connect at different times)

Learn more about Teaching an Academic Online course.

What are Outreach Online Courses

Outreach online courses encompass a variety of course types that do not fulfill degree requirements (Academic). They include Extension online courses, short online courses, program specific courses, grant based projects, and other types.

These courses:

• Do not provide student Academic credit and can not be applied to degrees.
  • Extension courses can be offered for CEU credit under the course number CEEX 5700.
• Have no specific course numbers
• Do not follow the campus semester dates or specific date limitations
• May be self-paced
• Have course fees that are variable
• Frequently are offered in partnership with external sources
• May be grant funded

• Learn more about Teaching an Online Outreach course.

What are CEU Credit Online Courses

CEU online courses allow students who are not seeking degrees to get continuing education credits. CEUs appear on the Continuing Education level of a USU transcript. A USU student, for example, could have an undergraduate transcript, a graduate transcript, and a continuing education transcript – each showing the courses taken at each respective level.

These courses:

• Use approved USU course numbers with CEU prefixes.
  •  Extension courses can be offered for CEU credit under the course number CEEX 5700.
• May be term based or have variable course dates
• Are typically co-listed with academic credit equivalent courses
• Cost a minimum of $30/credit + department fees
  • 1 CEU credit = 10 contact hours.
• Students must apply to USU as non-degree seeking students
• Can be co-listed with Academic Credit courses.

• Learn more about Teaching an Online CEU course.