Credit Recovery Students

Quicklinks: Working in Your Course | Taking the Pretest | Scanning Handwritten Assignments | Submitting Work | Permitting Progress | Checking Progress | Accessing Dry Labs for Science Courses | Requesting an Extension

How to Navigate a Credit Recovery Course

Credit Recovery courses are managed by an Illinois certified instructor responsible for grading identified key assessments. The Credit Recovery Solution includes prescriptive pretests to identify what you have previously learned and areas you need to work on within each unit. Your individualized learning plan will be automatically generated based on your pretest results. You will want to take the pretest very seriously because it will determine your plan of study for completing the course. Because not all activities may be included in your learning plan, these courses are not NCAA approved.

You will have 12 weeks from the enrollment date to complete the course. You must complete all graded items prescribed by the pretest results and earn a minimum overall score of 60% on graded assignments in order to pass the course.

IVS has licensed the enhanced credit recovery courses from Apex Learning®. Below are videos and help guides that explain how to access and navigate your course, as well as show you how to use tools for submitting work, discussing with your colleagues, and checking your progress.

Accessing Your Course

You will need to allow pop-ups in your web browser to launch the course in a new tab or window.

Enable Pop-Ups

Enable Pop-Ups

Launch Course

Launch Course

Once your course is launched, you will land in the APEX Dashboard. Please watch the following video to learn how to access your course, navigate units, lessons and activities, and complete coursework:

Working in Your Course Help Guide

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Taking the Pretest

Pretests determine how much of the course material you will need to complete, so it is important to take them seriously.

Please watch the following video to learn how to complete the pretest:

Taking the Pretest Help Guide

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Using Your Smartphone to Scan Written Work and Save as PDF

If you do no have access to a scanner, you can use a free App called CamScanner and your Smartphone to take a picture of your handwritten assignments, and then convert the image to a PDF to upload for your instructor to view and to grade. Important note: When saving the picture of your document, please select the B & W (Black and White) setting to minimize the size of the file.

You should always email your CamScanner files in .pdf format to yourself or upload them to a more permanent storage location.  After emailing to yourself, the files should be saved either on your computer or a more permanent storage location. Do not remove or delete coursework from your own storage location until you complete the course.

Please watch the following video to learn the basics for using CamScanner. Instead of uploading to D2L as described in the video, you will upload to the Apex Message Center using the next video. "Sending Messages and Submitting Written Work".

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Sending Messages and Submitting Written Work

You will use the Message screen often in your course to communicate with and send work to your teacher.

Please watch the following video to learn how to send your teacher a message, attach a file, and submit homework:

Sending Messages and Submitting Written Work Help Guide

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Getting Permission to Move Forward after 3 Quiz Attempts

You are expected to earn a 70% or higher on each lesson quiz. You have three attempts to earn the minimum 70% score. If you are not successful in earning this grade after three attempts, you must contact the IVS Technical Support team to submit a Permit Progress request.

Use the help guide below to learn how to submit this request:

Permit Progress Help Guide

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Accessing Dry Labs in Science Courses

For all science courses, you are given directions on completing wet or dry labs. Credit Recovery students will be completing dry labs only, which means you will not need any lab materials to complete lab exercises.

Please watch the following video to learn how to access lab manuals and lab experiment worksheets in your course:

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Checking Progress

It is very important for you to meet deadlines and check progress to stay on track in your online course.

Please watch the following video to learn how to see your overall progress, find activity scores, and see activity due dates:

Checking Progress Help Guide

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Requesting a Course Extension

Students must have 50% of the computer-based activities and associated written assignments in the units completed to request an initial extension of 3 weeks in the credit recovery course. A student may request a 2nd and final 3-week extension if additional work (both computer-based activities and written assignments) are submitted during the initial extension AND the student is now at 80% of the work to completed.

Follow the steps outlined in the help guide below to request a course extension:

Requesting a Course Extension

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