Virtual Teaching - Resource Guide

Beginning in school year 2020-21, a local education agency (LEA) will not be required to make up school hours that are lost or cancelled due to exceptional or emergency circumstances (up to 36 hours) if the LEA implements an Alternative Methods of Instruction (AMI) Plan that is approved by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

Missouri Course Access and Virtual School Program (MOCAP) was established in 2007 as the state’s online school. It was previously known as Missouri Virtual Instruction Program (MOVIP). Currently, MOCAP offers courses for 9th through 12th grade and plans to expand to grades K-12. Students can take courses from any Internet-connected computer, available 24-hours a day, seven days a week. MOCAP's mission is to offer Missouri students equal access to a wide range of high quality courses, and interactive online learning that is neither time nor place dependent.

The Iowa Department of Education is collaborating with the following agencies and organizations to provide access to educational enrichment options for students, parents and educators during the temporary disruption of classroom learning due to COVID-19:

Per Kansas Statute 72-3712, a virtual school or program is:
offered for credit;
uses distance learning technologies which redominately use internet-based methods to deliver instruction;involves instruction that occurs synchronously with the teacher and pupil in separate locations;
requires the pupil to make academic progress toward the next grade level and matriculation from kindergarten through high school graduation;
requires the pupil to demonstrate competence in subject matter for each class or subject in which the pupil is enrolled as part of the virtual school; and requires age-appropriate pupils to complete state assessment tests.