Valencia's Plans for Bound Semester Due to Covid-19

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As Valencia College'southward fall semester gets past its midway point, Valencia's Executive Vice President and Provost Kathleen Plinkse has sent out a school-wide email informing students nigh the upcoming plans for next yr's jump semester.

With COVID-19 forcing the college to go fully online, closing campuses, and preventing face-to-face courses, students had to switch from in-classroom learning to online. Canvas was used to the fullest extent as well as using tools such as the video conferencing program, Zoom.

Valencia will continue the plans they had gear up in motion dorsum in the summer for the fall semester. Nigh courses were offered online with a limited number of face-to-face courses offered on campus. A majority of the buildings and offices were also airtight, coupled with student facilities, such every bit the bookstore, libraries, and figurer labs. Student services such every bit advising, the answer center, and tutoring, will continue online.

Going into adjacent year's spring semester, Valencia plans to follow that pattern that was laid out with some added tweaks. The college plans to continue online courses while besides having a select number of face-to-face courses in specific subject area areas. Some of these subject field areas include: arts and entertainment, biotechnology, culinary arts, engineering, nursing and allied health, and public prophylactic.

"In improver to what Dr. Plinkse communicated in her provost update, I can also tell you that we have increased the number of confront-to-face courses in the discipline areas that Dr. Plinkse mentioned and are expanding the number of real-time virtual (RTV) courses," said Ballad Traynor, Valencia College's Senior Managing director of Public Relations at Valencia Higher.

Online courses will exist continued to be offered in two forms. Both, traditional online courses in which students tin can access course materials and lectures at the student's most convenient time too equally real-time virtual courses — courses that take meetings at designated times.

With adjacent year's spring semester approaching, returning students can register early as advanced registration begins on Nov. three.