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Shoreline Community College is part of the Washington Online (WAOL) consortium, a cooperative effort by Washington's 34 community and technical colleges to deliver coordinated online instruction. To learn more about WAOL, visit the WAOL Web site at www.waol.org.

Washington Online courses are conducted completely online. They have start and stop dates, regular assignments and project due dates, but students can work at the time and place most convenient to them. These features make WAOL courses more convenient than face-to-face courses, but they are not easier. Because online courses are delivered at a distance, they are reading and writing intensive. Even though attendance is not required at a specific time, students will need to spend time in the virtual classroom five out of every seven days and plan on 12 to 15 hours of class work each week for each course.

Here's how WAOL works:

• All WAOL courses are taught via the Internet. WAOL courses are delivered with the Blackboard online learning environment.
• WAOL courses are taught by consortium faculty from all over the state. This means your instructor might be in Spokane, and your classmates might be in Yakima, Olympia, or Ellensburg.
• Students register for WAOL online courses through Shoreline Community College. Students can register for a WAOL class up to the Saturday before the SCC quarter begins; click here to register for a WAOL class.  Shoreline collects tuition, grants course credit, and confers any certificates or degrees.
• To get started in your WAOL course, go to WAOL Get Started.

Note: WAOL operates on a slightly different schedule than Shoreline, in order to accommodate all the community colleges who participate. The first day of class for WAOL begins on a Thursday, usually the same week that Shoreline begins instruction. WAOL students can always look up your class in the WAOL schedule to check for class dates and details.

* Refund period for WAOL classes differs from that of other classes.  Please contact regdl@shoreline.edu  for more information.

For more information about WAOL, visit the WashingtonOnline website.
Registered for a WAOL course? Click here for information on how to get started.
Order WAOL books through the SCC Bookstore or through the WAOL Bookstore.