Attendance

To meet the attendance requirement as a participant of the Online Academy program, students must be actively engaging and submitting coursework in all courses throughout each week. While there is flexibility within each week, students should engage and submit assignments by the end of the day on Friday. The expectations are clear and allow us to provide this flexible learning opportunity to students while aligning with attendance reporting to the state of Ohio.

Students in grades 9-12 will be marked as present or absent per week.

  • Attendance will be tracked based on a student’s weekly engagement and participation in his/her Canvas courses.
  • For Online Academy high school students, attendance is  based on weekly assignment submissions. Each course has a required number of submissions and a formula is run comparing the student’s number of submissions completed out of the number of submissions required. A percentage of total work is determined which is translated into a corresponding number of days present, unless a parent/guardian notifies the school of illness or an acceptable excuse.
  • Since each student’s schedule is unique and different courses have different requirements, there is not a set number of submissions to meet attendance requirements.  Each student’s schedule is taken into account when his/her attendance is determined.
  • Students may, but will not be required to, participate during traditional school hours.
  • Students will have 24-hour access to the course and are expected to engage and submit assessments daily (school days).
  • Attendance will be updated through Home Access on a weekly basis,  based on the student’s activity during the previous week.
  • Parents/guardians must contact the school if their student is ill or otherwise unable to participate in the online coursework for one or more school days.
  • Parents/guardians do not need to contact the school if a student is ill in the morning, but able to participate in the coursework later that day.
  • Parents will be notified if a student has been marked absent for the previous week. Unless notified of an illness or excused absence, students who will be marked as “unexcused.”

Hilliard is using Safe Arrival, including Online Academy students. If you have an illness to report, use Safe Arrival to Report attendance.

Zoom Sessions

All students are highly encouraged to meet with their teachers during their Zoom office hours if they are in need of help.  Our Online Academy teachers are always willing to support students at other times through Zoom when requested.

Special Education and EL students have some required Zoom sessions. Please check with your student’s teacher for more information.