ExcelTrack Program Information

ExcelTrack™ Degrees and Certificates

If you are enrolled in one of the listed degree plans to the left, you may qualify for the Excel Track program. This program is not available for Associate Degrees. IF you are interested in seeing if Excel Track is right for you, take the time to reach out to your student advisor to discuss your options.

Contact your student advisor at: 866-522-7747

Excel Track Undergrad Requirements & Policies:

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What are financial aid minimum requirements?

Financial Aid requires a minimum of 6 completed modules per term. These modules must have a passing grade.

What are the attendance policies?

Each student must post attendance every 21 days. Attendance can be posted by posting a discussion post, completing a readiness check, and submitting the competency assessment. If attendance is not posted within this time frame, the student will automatically be withdrawn from the program.

The following will not record your attendance:

Faculty Connect sessions
Any activity conducted via an external learning tool such as WileyPLUS, Pearson MyLabs, and McGraw-Hill Connect
Any activity submitted during the Online Classroom Preview Period.

How can I make the most of my enrollment in the Modules?

The more credits you can complete each term, the more time and money you save, and the closer you will be to graduation and pursuing your career. Courses are divided into 1-credit modules (mini-courses) for greater scheduling and pacing flexibility. You can sign up for as many 1-credit classes as you want every 10-week term for a flat rate. You can add modules throughout the term if you complete those initially scheduled. Ideally, module students are on a pace that is faster than the traditional path of 1 or 2 courses in a term.

What are the additional policies?

Do not take the Readiness Check unless you are sure you have time to complete the full assessment. Once a module has been opened, it must be finished by the end of the term or you must unregister by the last day to withdraw from the current term. All open modules are assigned a grade at the end of each term.
If you fail the same module or its equivalent twice, you will be academically dismissed from the University. If a student posts attendance in a registered module course and does not unregister the module course by the end of add/drop week in the current term, the student must receive a grade for it at term’s end (A, B, or F).
The only graded component is the competency assessment.
Review all Excel Track policy information for your program in the Purdue Global catalog and in the ‘Traditional and Module Courses’ page under the MyStudies tab in PG Campus.

If you need any help along the way, please contact your student advisor at: 866-522-7747

Excel Track Graduate Requirements & Policies:

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What are financial aid minimum requirements?

Financial Aid requires a minimum of 2 completed modules per term. These modules must have a passing grade.

What are the attendance policies?

Each student must post attendance every 14 days and a post must be made in at least one module on the first day of a new term. Absences continue from the previous term. Attendance can be posted by posting a discussion post, completing a readiness check, and submitting the competency assessment. If attendance is not posted within this time frame, the student will automatically be withdrawn from the program.

The following will not record your attendance:

Faculty Connect sessions
Any activity conducted via an external learning tool such as WileyPLUS, Pearson MyLabs, and McGraw-Hill Connect
Any activity submitted during the Online Classroom Preview Period.

How can I make the most of my enrollment in the Modules?

The more credits you can complete each term, the more time and money you save, and the closer you will be to graduation and pursuing your career. Courses are divided into 1-credit modules (mini-courses) for greater scheduling and pacing flexibility. You can sign up for as many 1-credit classes as you want every 6-week term for a flat rate. You can add modules throughout the term if you complete those initially scheduled. Ideally, module students are on a pace that is faster than the traditional path of 1 or 2 courses in a term.

What are the additional policies?

Do not take the Readiness Check unless you are sure you have time to complete the full assessment. Once a module has been opened, it must be finished by the end of the term or you must unregister by the last day to withdraw from the current term. All open modules are assigned a grade at the end of each term.
If you fail the same module or its equivalent twice, you will be academically dismissed from the University. If a student posts attendance in a registered module course and does not unregister the module course by the end of add/drop week in the current term, the student must receive a grade for it at term’s end (A, B, or F).
The only graded component is the competency assessment.
Review all Excel Track policy information for your program in the Purdue Global catalog and in the ‘Traditional and Module Courses’ page under the MyStudies tab in PG Campus.

If you need any help along the way, please contact your student advisor at: 866-522-7747

Please watch this video on ExcelTrack.

Do I Qualify For ExcelTrack?

If your degree is listed above, you could qualify for the ExcelTrack Program. Reach out to your student advisor today to discuss if ExcelTrack is right for you. While ExcelTrack is a work at your own pace program, students must meet the minimum requirements for financial aid and attendance policies.

What is a module course?

Each module course is a 1-credit “piece” of a traditional course that consists of multiple credits and learning outcomes. In each term (6 weeks), you have the option to complete as many modules/credits as you want. The total charge is $2845 each term (every 10 weeks, books are also included in this price), for the chance of unlimited credits, which means you will save money and time on your degree overall. Module courses offer:

Self-directed learning with ongoing instructor support
Flexible schedule opportunities
Flexible pace with opportunities to accelerate

Will I take module courses in my program?

If you are enrolled in an ExcelTrack program option, your program’s degree plan will contain mostly module courses. The number/percentage varies by program.

How do module courses compare with traditional courses?

A set of module courses corresponds in terms of both learning outcomes and credits to a single traditional course. Example:

The traditional course, MM150 Survey of Mathematics, is the equivalent of these five module courses:

MM150M1
MM150M2
MM150M3
MM150M4
MM150M5

What does a module course consist of?

Module courses consist of five sections:

Readiness Check (Required)

You will start each module course by taking a readiness check. This is a brief quiz that is designed to help you discern how well you understand the material in the course. While the readiness check is required in order to gain access to the rest of the course, it is not graded. If you answer a question incorrectly, the results instruct you where in the course reading materials you can understand the underlying concept(s) and find the correct answer.

Learn

Each module course provides resources to help you understand the material. These may include pre-recorded videos, eBooks, articles, and/or other learning materials. You may find that you need to access all of the materials for a course or only select materials. Reviewing the materials is not mandatory; however, careful review can help you pass the competency assessment at the end of the course.

Connect

Discussion boards and live weekly Faculty Connect sessions provide you with the opportunity to interact with your instructor and other students. On the discussion boards, your instructor will pose questions related to the course material to prompt a virtual discussion among you, your classmates, and your instructor. In the live weekly Faculty Connect sessions, you and your classmates have the opportunity to ask your instructor questions about course concepts and have them addressed there. . No assignments are mandatory in this section; you will decide the level of interaction that works best.

Practice

Activities such as knowledge checks, quizzes, and even labs are designed to help you practice the concepts you need to know to pass the competency assessment. Practice activities are a great way to test your understanding of the material, gain feedback from your professor, ask additional questions, and build confidence prior to the competency assessment. No assignments are mandatory in this section; you will determine how much exposure you need to the material.

You will spend as much time as you need in the Learn, Connect, and Practice sections of the module course mastering course concepts to prepare for the competency assessment (below). The amount of time you need may vary greatly from module course to module course depending on how familiar those course concepts are to you.

Competency Assessment (Required)

The competency assessment is the culmination of each course and will represent the final (and only) grade you receive for the course. The competency assessment is designed to test your understanding of the material and is performance based—you must show that you know how to do something. The assessment will generally be in the format of an essay, project, series of computations, or other appropriate assessment for the material. Within a term, you are allowed multiple attempts to pass each competency assessment. If you are not able to successfully pass the assessment within the term, you will have the opportunity to take the module course again in the next term (note: limits on repeated module courses can be found in the University Catalog).

How do I decide what to work on in a module course?

Reading material and course activities such as discussion board posts, live Faculty Connect sessions, or quizzes are optional, not required. You choose which activities will best help you to succeed on the competency assessment.

Which activities in a module course are required?

Each module contains two required course activities: Readiness Check: ungraded test to gauge how well you know course concepts Competency Assessment: graded final assessment

How do I progress through a module course?

Take the readiness check. The results show what you know and what you still have to learn and master. You learn and practice what you have not mastered. Learn and practice what you have not mastered. Review readings, participate in discussion boards, complete practice activities, get help from your instructor via Faculty Connect sessions.

Take the competency assessment. Complete and submit the assigned final project. You pass with a “B” or better. If you do not pass, try again before the end of the term by revising and resubmitting it. How quickly should I progress through a module course? In a module course, you set your pace: you determine how quickly you strive to prepare for and pass the competency assessment. You can start and finish a module when you want/can as long as you do it by the end of the term. When you pass the competency assessment in a module, you may then move on to the next module in sequence you have registered for while still in the term.

How do I access my module course?

Once you are registered for a module course, you access it from the homepage of PG Campus. Click on the Future button before a term start or the Current button after a term start. Before a term start, registered modules (and traditional courses) are first accessible during the Preview Period beginning on the Sunday prior to the Wednesday term start.

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