How Study Works
What happens between enrollment and graduation, set out in the order it occurs.
Enrollment and Orientation
Accepted applicants receive access to the platform immediately. Orientation covers the lesson viewer, the three study formats, the assessment center and the progress record, and is designed to be completed in a single sitting rather than over a week.
Onboarding then establishes a starting point, with nothing to arrange and no appointment to wait for: a short assessment of what the student already knows, a review of any prior study or professional experience that may count toward the program, and a recommended order for the first modules. Any of it can be changed later.
A short technical check confirms that the student's device and connection are adequate. No specialist equipment is required.
Choosing How You Study and How You Are Assessed
Three Ways Through Every Lesson
Reading, watching or listening. All three cover identical material and carry identical credit. Most students use all three, chosen by circumstance rather than preference, and change between them within a lesson.
Study formatsEight Ways to Demonstrate Understanding
From continuous comprehension credit to dissertation. Early work is used to suggest the methods likely to suit a student best, but the choice rests with them and may be revised as the program proceeds.
Assessment methodsWorking Through the Modules
Each module comprises a series of lessons, and each lesson is divided into parts of roughly ten to twenty minutes. Progress is therefore possible in a short session, which matters to students studying in the gaps of a working day.
Lessons pause at intervals and ask the student to restate what has been covered. Where a response shows that a point has not been understood, the lesson returns to it. There is no limit on attempts and no record of how many were needed.
Progression is self-paced. There are no fixed terms, no live sessions and no penalty for a week or a month away. Students able to work intensively complete more quickly; students fitting study around employment take longer. Neither is treated as a failure.
Credit, Records and Completion
The University uses the standard United States credit hour. Credit is recorded as assessments are completed and appears immediately on the student's record, together with a grade average calculated on the conventional four-point scale and weighted by credit.
Results are broken down by module and by assessment method, so that a student can see not only where they stand but which forms of assessment serve them best. Transfer credit, where awarded, appears on the same record.
A program concludes when its credits are obtained, including the final extended project or dissertation. Graduates receive a verifiable digital credential, issued immediately rather than posted.
- Credit system
- Standard United States credit hour.
- Grading
- Four-point scale, weighted by credit, visible continuously.
- Records
- Broken down by module and by assessment method.
- Completion
- On obtaining the required credits, including the final project.
- Credential
- Issued digitally and verifiable indefinitely.