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Global Student Network, LLC (GSN), is a virtual curriculum provider. GSN was established to provide alternative educational options designed to improve the academic preparation, achievement, and general well-being of non-traditionally oriented elementary, middle and high school age students.
GSN works in collaboration with your school administration to develop and implement a Virtual Learning Academy that assimilates and maintains the culture, practices, and values of your school and community. GSN provides training to faculty and staff to ensure that each student, parent, and teacher has full access to the very finest in Virtual Curriculum.
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1. GSN’s Virtual Curriculum was developed, and is maintained, by a Leading U.S. Public School District.
JCESC:
• Develops various standards-based curricula
• Holds the copyright for the 80+ online web-based courses
• Owns the LMS – Learning Management System
• Provides own hosting services
• 24/7, 365 day on-call monitoring and hourly back-ups
GSN:
• Markets the Virtual Curriculum nationally and internationally
• Provides on-site training
• Provides all technical support and customer service (back)
2. GSN’s Virtual Curriculum is currently used in over 250 school districts
throughout the nation and in 24 countries worldwide servicing over 30,000 students.
GSN’s web based delivery of Virtual Curriculum is a unique model that allows a school to start their own Virtual Learning Academy. Schools are able to identify and serve the individual needs of their students, yet remain flexible to the needs of their community. Schools using this model are able to maintain positive control of their fiscal assets, their operations, their school management, and ultimately, their response to the students and families they serve.
GSN consultswith the key administrator’s to establish a framework of how GSN’s Virtual Curriculum delivery can best be tailored to meet the needs of the New Virtual Learning Academy.
Development of a Virtual Learning Academy occurs along a continuum rather than in an event. GSN works with administrators throughout the entire process. GSN then provides an onsite training for all of the Virtual Learning Academy’s key faculty and administrative staff. (back)
3. Global Student Network’s Virtual Curriculum is a standards based curriculum for grades 2-12 that is primarily delivered via the internet. The curriculum provides flexibility to be site based or used for independent study and can be closely monitored for seat time, progress and consistency. It includes two way communication tools internal to the platform. (back)
4. GSN Virtual Curriculum includes both semester and year long courses:
• Year long courses have 36 weekly lessons, 144 hours average seat time
• Semester long courses have 18 weekly lessons, 72 hours average seat time
• Each weekly lesson contains materials required for learning, including text, streaming video and audio files, links to libraries, museums and educational sites throughout the world that are appropriate to the lesson.
• Each weekly lesson includes assessment of learning that the student submits to the assigned teacher for grading.
• Each course includes a mid-term and final assessment.
For a complete list of currently available courses CLICK HERE (back)
5. GSN’s Virtual Curriculum is a standard's based curriculum that is deeply
rooted in the National Academic Content Standards. Although each state has minor variances in their approach to standardized curriculum, each district currently using the curriculum has been satisfied that the content has been adequately aligned to state standards. (back)
6. GSN’s Virtual Curriculum is delivered and managed via its integrated LMS. Four portals are linked to each account: Student, Parent, Teacher and Administrator.
Student: The student’s portal includes:
• Access to each course currently enrolled in.
• Visual reminders of:
1. Lessons progress (2 of 36 lessons complete)
2. Current course average
3. Final grade
• Each course includes visual reminders, including:
1. Lessons not yet viewed, viewed, partially completed, submitted, and graded
2. Final grade of each lesson
3. Teacher comments
• Access to previously completed courses
• Internal E-mail to teacher
• Multiple views of each lesson (e.g., lesson only, questions only, split screen)
• Easy-to-navigate screens
Parent: The Parent Portal includes:
• A read-only version of Student Portal
• Ability to be actively involved in assisting and tracking student progress
Teacher: The Teacher Portal includes:
• Access to each course assigned
1. Can access and view each lesson, includes answers
• Can view read-only “As Student”, without username and password
• Internal E-mail to: student, class, parent, all parents, and all students
• Lessons to Grade
• Ability to override grades, insert projects, etc.
• Automatic calculation of percent correct for each unit
• Access to student seat time
• Class Count Report
Administrator: (Point of Contact): The POC Portal includes:
• Access to all student account information
• Management of user ID and password for all accounts (student, parent, teacher)
• Ability to view read-only version “As Student”
• Internal E-mail system
• Ability to send and receive e-mail to all Students, all Teachers
• Extensive Reporting Capabilities:
1. Teacher Inactivity: Shows teachers who have not logged in within a time frame
2. Teacher Seat Time: Shows a log of teacher activity
3. Lessons to Grade: Shows all lessons that have not been graded
4. Class Rosters: Shows class rosters by teacher
5. Course Teacher Assignment: Shows teachers who can teach a course
6. Student Lists: Lists all students
7. Student Inactivity: Shows students who have not logged in within a time frame
8. Student Seat Time: Shows a log of student activity
9. Courses Grades: Shows student grades for a particular course
10. Student Progress: Shows student grades and progress
11. Class Count: Shows the number of active students in each class (back)
7. GSN’s Virtual Curriculum is delivered primarily asynchronously. The
curriculum provides enough flexibility to be delivered synchronously on-site
based to individual or groups of students. Courses are completed by the student through the GSN website. Each course appears on the platform with 18 or 36 weekly lessons. The student will log in to each lesson and complete a variety of activities in each subject matter. Questions include essay, multiple choice, problem solving, true/false, & a variety of response formats.
Students are able to maintain an on-going dialogue with their instructor via the internal e-mail system or by writing comments after each question when necessary.
The customized LMS ensures teachers receive students’ work quickly and
provide timely feedback to questions and ideas.
The system also ensures both students and parents are instantly apprised
of student’s progress. (back)
8. Students assessment and progress: Each lesson includes an assessment that is submitted directly to the teacher. Each course includes a mid-term and final assessment reinforcing the learning objectives.
Teachers become coaches, observing student effort and quality of work
through visual displays, and give feedback by correcting assignments, with
the ability to mark each question correct, incorrect or have students redo
assignments. Teachers may override assignments, grades and material, as
well as provide additional assignments through attachments and the internal e-mail system. The students’ work will be reinforced by the instructor who will work one-on-one via the web with the student. The instructor provides necessary guidance and coursework review, while encouraging students toward self-directed and self-paced learning.
Upon completion of a unit or assessment, the student submits work by
pressing an on-screen submit button. The student’s submittal appears in the teachers customized webpage immediately as a “lesson to grade.” or a “final to grade.” The teacher reviews/grades the work and sends comments and suggestions back to the student.
Parents are able to view all student course materials, assessments, and
graded lessons at any time. (back)
9. Student Attendance Tracking: When a student logs on using a unique user ID and password, a seat time log timer is initiated. The timer includes an automated protocol that logs the student off if there is no account activity for approximately 10 minutes.
The Teacher and POC Portal’s both include the ability to view a student’s seat time. The teacher views seat time applied to each weekly lesson. The POC views seat time for each weekly lesson, as well as overall seat time. This ensures that a student does not log on and walk away from GSN’s Virtual Curriculum.
• Students see overall progress, number of lessons completed for each course, and the overall average for each course. The student portal also includes visual cues for the units that have been viewed, partially completed, submitted, returned to be redone, and graded.
• Parents have the same read-only views as the student.
• Teacher and Administrator Portals include the ability to see student progress as the student sees it, as well as a variety of views of student progress individually, by class, by course, and by teacher.
The teacher has the overall responsibility and authority for grading lessons, amending standardized curriculum to individual needs, sbility to over ride grade for amendments, & assigning final grade for each lesson & course. All tools for completing the responsibilities are inclusive to GSN’s LMS.
Administrator can view all teacher and student activities through a variety of
integrated tools and reports. (back)
10. GSN’s LMS includes internal e-mail capability.
• Students can communicate directly with their teacher.
• Teacher can communicate directly with individual students, all students, all parents,or all students and parents.
• Administrator can communicate with individual students, all teachers, all
parents, all students and parents. (back)
11. Virtual Learning has shown positive results when parents are directly involved in their students learning activities. GSN’s Virtual Curriculum and LMS allows parents to have as much control over their students learning as your Virtual Learning Academy permits. Typically parents are given the read only “Parent Portal” to be able to view all student activity and progress.
GSN has implemented many successful home programs allowing the parent
to be added into the teacher module with a lead teacher in as the POC,
overseeing and facilitating the home option. (back)
12. Virtual Learning is showing positive results for students with disabilities.
GSN’s Virtual Curriculum and LMS include several features that make
it an ideal primary or adjunct tool in special education.
• Course flexibility and nomenclature: Courses are titled to remove stigma of student learning below grade level. GSN’s LMS increases privacy of student’s individualized learning plan.
• Unlimited License: If course is too challenging, or too easy, course can be changed at no additional cost.
• 24/7 availability: Student can access the courseware in their optimum
learning period.
• Audio/Video components: Each lesson is embedded with audio and video streaming that supports the lesson material.
• Visual Cues: All elements of the students home, course and lesson
pages are color coded, symbol coded (smiley faces) and progress noted
(i.e. 7 out of 18 lessons complete). (back)
13. GSN’s LMS is easily accessible via any internet portal. MVLC/GSN’s LMS
requires a basic computer. The LMS works best when using Internet Explorer 6.0 for PC’s, Safari 1.2 for MAC’s. Adobe Acrobat 6.0 or above enables both additional learning materials and auditory support. QuickTime should be installed to enable video viewing. Both Acrobat and QuickTime are free downloads.
GSN provides 24 hour technical support for the Virtual Learning Academy’s
Point of Contact. Our extensive experience has shown that when all routine technical issues are channeled through the school’s point of contact, all students, parents, and teachers rapidly acquire the skills needed to navigate the LMS and progress in learning activities. (back)
14. Financial Considerations: GSN is a virtual curriculum provider and will work in collaboration with the school, billing accordingly as students are enrolled (i.e. single course, full year license), or as requested by the district.
One-Time School / District Set-Up Fee: $2500.
GSN will provide the following for the Virtual Learning Academy:
• Customized web page for enrollments, both student and faculty
• Complete professional orientation and training for faculty, parents, and administration (Point of Contact)
• Provide Point of Contact recruitment materials for students and faculty
• Student & Teacher data entry into Global Virtual Curriculum platform
• Issuance of Individual User names and Passwords
• Ongoing Technical and Educational Support to the Point of Contact (24 hour response time)
• Marketing Consultation
• Consultation for program administration to ensure a seamless .
• Monthly billing to schools financial administrator for licenses issued
Student License Fee:
• Unlimited Courses: $625.00 per student. The unlimited course license is valid for 365 days, including summer school
• Single Course: $200.00 per course. Once a 3rd course is added, license will be upgraded to an unlimited license.
• Summer School: $300 per student. June 1st-August 30th (back)
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