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Frequently Asked Questions
Getting Started/Admissions
- What does A Beka Academy provide?
- What are parent/student responsibilities?
- What grades and subjects do you offer?
- Is there a schedule prepared to tell me when and how to operate the video school?
- What laws apply to home schooling in my state?
- Does A Beka Academy offer programs for schools?
- Do we get to keep the DVDs?
- How do I return the DVDs?
- Who can be the student’s supervisor and what do they need to be able to do?
- Can you help me get started home schooling?
- Does A Beka Academy have a statement of faith?
- What are the graduation requirements for an A Beka Academy student?
- Do I need to own a television and DVD player?
- How much of each day’s total classroom time is video instruction?
- Can a student take just one semester of a full-year course?
- Is A Beka Academy accredited?
- I’m having problems enrolling or viewing my account information online. What’s wrong?
Admissions After Enrolling
General Academics
- What homeschool programs are available from A Beka Academy?
- Are you accredited?
- What is the fastest method of enrollment?
- Do research papers need to be sent to your office?
- Do we need to send you our book reports?
- What is the proper form for long form book reports?
- What is the composition assignment—I already returned my DVDs?
- What books are okay for a book report?
- Have you received my progress reports?
- How do I fill out the PE progress reports?
- We forgot to call in the student’s oral reading. Can the student read today’s lesson?
- What is the graduation date for this coming school year?
- We’ve lost our test. What do we do?
- Can I send in pages of a test that were missing?
- May I allow my student to retake the tests?
- May I be exempt from the final exam?
- May my student use manuscript writing?
- May my student type out their answers?
- Do I have extra time to get my progress reports in after the “P” on the calendar?
- Can you fax another copy of the student’s report card?
- I lost my report card. Can I get another?
- What is the student’s GPA and class rank?
- Can my student retake a course to boost their GPA?
- Can you send my student’s transcript to the school he wants to attend?
- If my child has a question that I cannot answer is there some one I can call or e-mail?
- The videos go to lesson 170 but the calendar goes to lesson 180, why?
- Does the science project need to be sent to A Beka Academy?
- I forgot to send a test. Can I send it in now?
- When is my diploma coming?
Administering/Grading
- What do I do when my student misses the assignments given on the video?
- What is the time limit for taking tests/quizzes?
- Where are the quizzes and tests?
- Where are the answers to homework located?
- What is the difference between an answer key and a solution key?
- Where do I find point values for quizzes and tests?
- The point values do not add up to 100. Do I still subtract from 100? Why?
- What is your grading scale?
- Do I grade my student’s homework?
- How much time is required for each 7–12 grade subject?
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Video Streaming
General
- What is internet video streaming?
- Are the classes live?
- Are the DVDs still available?
- What if we have academic questions about the lessons viewed?
- Can previous video lessons be viewed?
- Can video lessons be viewed in any order?
- What grades are offered through video streaming?
- Will I still receive the books as part of the tuition cost?
- Will the video streaming have the same picture quality as the DVD program?
- What if we have to travel?
- Why would I want to select video streaming instead of DVD?
- Is the curriculum different than the curriculum used on the DVDs?
- Is video streaming available for both the Accredited and Independent Study Programs?
- Will we still be able to work ahead?
- How much time do we have to complete the program?
- Can international customers enroll with video streaming?
- What happens if I decide that I want to change my enrollment from video streaming to DVD or if I start with DVD and want to change to video streaming?
Computer/Technical
- What type of equipment do I need to receive internet video streaming?
- Will video streaming work with Windows, Mac OS, or Linux?
- What are the recommended system requirements?
- I am unable to view the sample videos, how can I check my computer?
- Who do I contact if I have technical questions?
- Will video streaming work on a dial-up connection?
- Will video streaming allow us to pause, stop, rewind, etc., like DVD?
- Will there be pop-ups?
- How many students can I enroll on video streaming?
- What happens if I lose my internet connection while my child is viewing a lesson?
- Why do I sometimes just get a spinning circle when I push the “Watch Lesson” button?
- How many students can I have viewing streaming lessons at one time?
Account Administration
Downloads
- Can video lessons be downloaded to my computer?
- How are lessons downloaded?
- When would downloading my videos be advantageous?
- How can the downloaded lessons be viewed?
- How long are downloaded videos viewable?
- How many videos may be downloaded at once?
- How long would it take to download all my lessons for the day to view them later?
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