Summer New Work for Credit Courses

Rising 7th through 12th grade students may take virtual New Work for Credit courses during the summer.

• Rising 7th and 8th Graders: May take level 1 or level 2 of a World Language course
• Rising 9th Graders: May take 1 New Work for Credit course; course options include Health and PE I, Economic and Personal Finance, Math (Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Algebra II/Trigonometry Intensified, or Pre-Calculus), or a World Language course
• Rising 10th-12th graders: May take up to 2 New Work for credit online courses

Students must receive advanced approval to enroll in a virtual course through their school counselor.  Credit will only be given for courses where APS enrolled the student in the course. No credit will be awarded in cases in which the student or the student’s family enrolled the student directly through the online vendor.

Courses dropped after Drop Date will result in a “W” (withdraw) on student’s transcript.

If a student does not withdraw/drop a class or does not complete a class, the final grade earned in the course will be added to the student’s transcript, including a grade of E.

• The window to submit a request for a summer course is March 3-June 2, 2025 regardless of course or vendor. Requests received after June 2 will not be processed. NOTE: vendors may have other deadlines later than June 2, 2025, but the APS deadline is June 2.
• Virtual Virginia Calendar:
  • Cohort 1:
    • Instruction: June 3-July 11, 2025
    • Withdrawal Deadline: June 6, 2025
  • Cohort 2:
    • Instruction: June 17-July 25, 2025
    • Withdrawal Deadline: June 20, 2025
• Other Vendors (ex. Edgenuity and EdOptions):
  • • Instruction: June 17-August 1, 2025
    • Withdrawal Deadline: July 1, 2025

• Technology issues related to the student’s MacBook (ex. Doesn’t stay charged; broken screen, etc) should be directed to your school’s Technician.
• Issues related to accessing digital resources via MyAccess and/or Clever and password resets should be directed to your school’s Instructional Technology Coordinator
• Login and password questions and issues with being able to access courses should be directed to the Office of Secondary Education. ([email protected])

• Virtual Virginia:
  • Student and Parent Handbook
• Edgenuity:
  • Daily Checklist to monitor student progress

Virtual Virginia

• Most courses offer a synchronous and asynchronous option, with each class session having approximately 45 minutes of instruction, followed by approximately 15 minutes of Q&A.
• Students in the synchronous session are expected to login daily at the set time and engage in the class.
• Students in the asynchronous session are expected to login daily to watch the recording of the synchronous session.
• Students who fail to login and complete assignments on a daily basis may be removed from the class.
• Courses close on July 11 for Cohort 1 and July 25 for Cohort 2 and cannot be extended.
• The Parent / Auditor account will be created at the time the student is first registered with Virtual Virginia. If you do not receive an email from Virtual Virginia with login information, you should check your spam folder.

Edgenuity and other Vendors

• All courses are asynchronous. Students are expected to work regularly and consistently over the summer to complete the course.
• While students do not have to engage daily with the course, they need to work consistently throughout the summer to complete the course by the August 1 deadline. Students should plan to work approximately 20-25 hours per week during the June 17-August 1 window.
• The deadline to complete a course is August 1 which will not be extended.

• The cost for each virtual course varies depending on the provider.
• Families are responsible for payment of the course at the time of registration.
• For courses for which payment is by check or money order, the student will not be enrolled in the course until payment is received by the Office of Secondary Education.
• Virtual Virginia
  • $375 per course
  • online payment option  (NOTE: Parents will not be able to create an account or log in until the student is enrolled in the course by APS staff; parents will receive an email notification from Virtual Virginia when their student is enrolled)
  • Payment may also be made by check or money order following the direction provided in the information below.
• Edgenuity and other Vendors
  • Edgenuity courses cost $550; the cost of courses through other vendors varies by vendor.
  • Can only be paid for by check or money order.
    • Check or money order should be made out to Arlington Public Schools.
    • Payment can be mailed to:

Arlington Public Schools

Office of Secondary of Secondary Education

2110 Washington Blvd

Arlington, VA 22204

• • • Payment can also be delivered in-person to:

Office of Secondary Education

4th Floor of the Syphax Education Center, ATTN Lakia Dozier

2110 Washington Blvd

Arlington, VA 22204

Families are not able to enroll directly with the online provider. Families must use their school’s link (above) to submit a request. The counselor will review the request and approve or deny it.

Per Board policy, students can “retake” a virtual version of a course that they took during the school year to earn a higher grade. However, this is at the family’s expense.

Prior to enrolling in the course, the counselor should contact the Secondary Education Office ([email protected]) with the name of the course and the provider. If the provider is on the list of VDOE’s approved virtual course providers, the content supervisor for the course in question will need to review the curriculum and verify that it aligns with the Standards of Learning and the APS curriculum.

The family will not receive a refund from the provider, and a “W” will be entered for the course on the student’s transcript (and it will appear on their transcript; we cannot remove the course from the transcript if the student drops it after the drop date).

The student will receive the grade earned in the class (E). The course and the failing grade will be reported on the student’s transcript.

Virtual new work for credit courses taken through the Summer Learning Program are at family expense.

Students should plan to work 4-5 hours per day, 5 days per week in order to complete the course due to the compressed time of the summer session.