SCOPE offers its courses with the adult learner in mind. Online courses provide you with flexible scheduling, asynchronous coursework, and an accelerated schedule to meet your goals and outcomes.

Our Pathway Partners are here to assist you with your questions to best help you accomplish your outcomes. Follow this link to talk with your Pathway Partner.

SCOPE is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate, baccalaureate, master’s, and doctorate degrees. SCOPE is also a member of the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS).

SCOPE online courses provide the same quality, rigor, and course objectives as a course in residence but with the added benefits of flexibility and term length to accommodate your schedule.

One of the distinguishing features of SCOPE’s online courses is the emphasis on the interaction between students and between students and facilitators. Although there are many ways for this interaction, online discussion is the most used one. Discussion posts are designed to help learners analyze material while encouraging them to work through problems by listening to each other and providing their own perspectives.

FERPA

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) allows students at an institution of higher education to control outside access to their education records, including requests for information from their parents, guardians, or others as designated by the student. Without a student’s written consent, SCOPE may not disclose information from a student’s education records to outside third parties. However, a student can provide a standing release allowing SCOPE to disclose information to others.

LOGIN AND PASSWORD

Upon enrollment in a course or program offered through SCOPE, each student is provided with a unique student login and password. This login and password are required to access certain learning resources protected by BJU’s Active Directory and Central Authentication Service. These resources include the BJU intranet, intranet-related resources and password-protected Mack Library resources.

CANVAS

The student’s unique login and password are also required to access SCOPE’s Learning Management System (LMS), Canvas, through which the online courses, including their lectures, assignments and assessments, are administered.

Online student privacy is maintained at all times by keeping grades secure in the LMS. Grades are not viewable by other members of the course. No student grades or information are posted outside of secured systems any time during or after the semester.

For details about how Canvas collects and uses data, see the Instructure Product Privacy PolicyLinks to an external site..

MICROSOFT

Most online courses require the use of Microsoft products such as Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. As a BJU student you have access to Microsoft Office 365 for free with your student login (see this Microsoft Office 365 page for download information). In addition, some faculty members may incorporate live meetings via Microsoft Teams in their courses.

For details about how Microsoft collects and uses data, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement (Links to an external site.).

HONORLOCK

BJU requires the use of Honorlock for all proctored online exams. In addition to the test requiring the student to enter his/her unique login and password, Honorlock further authenticates the student via webcam by requiring a photo ID at each testing session. Additionally, all testing sessions are recorded and are available for faculty members or SCOPE staff to review.

For details about how Honorlock collects and uses data, see their Student Privacy Statement (Links to an external site.).

EXTERNAL TOOLS

If external tools (wikis, blogs, etc.) are used, the faculty member must ensure that Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requirements are met. In most cases, it is acceptable for faculty to ask students to post and comment to wikis and blogs. However, students will not be required to post information that is protected under FERPA (their class schedule, for example). Faculty comments and grades on student work will never be made public. Students may make public work such as wikis and blogs private if so desired. Faculty cannot require students to reveal private information to the class and will respect students’ requests to not post information for class viewing.

To apply to become a SCOPE student, visit the application page.

Our Pathway Partners will be happy to look at your previous coursework to give you a tentative evaluation of your transfer work and an idea of what coursework you would have left to do. You can send an unofficial transcript to the email [email protected].

Transcripts can be requested using our transcript portal. Follow this link to the transcript portal.

To register for your next online class, you will need to go to studentcentral.bju.edu.

If you need to drop/withdraw from your online class, you will need to fill out a Drop/Withdrawal form and return it to our office via email at [email protected].

Contact your course facilitator for the following:

• If you have any questions about the content/assignments of your course
• If you feel that you are falling behind
• If you know of circumstances that will alter your ability to meet course expectations

• If you have questions that pertain to the class, you will need to post your questions on the Professor’s Office discussion board.
• If your questions are of a personal nature, please email your facilitator privately through your BJU email account.
• You can also email your facilitator through the “Inbox” feature located on the blue global navigation menu on the left side of your screen.

If you are having trouble corresponding with your facilitator, please contact the SCOPE office at this email: [email protected].