ACCESS

ACCESS

ACCESS or Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide is a distance learning tool that is provided and used statewide in Alabama. The vision of ACCESS is "provide equal access to high quality instructions to improve student acheivement through distance learning." ACCESS was created by Bob Riley and staff on November 1, 2004.

ACCESS gives high school students higher level classes that they would not normally be offered at their schools. These web based classes range from AP to regular classes. This program gives many students the opportunity to take classes that will give them a well rounded curriculum such as five different foriegn languages, accounting, global studies and more. ACCESS offers more complex courses for those students that need a bigger challenge to be intrigued.

This program also has a "headfake" it is exposing and teaching the students about new technology. Students will not only learn about their coures but also about internet progarming. Students are able to do homework, quizes and tests all online along with interacting with their teacher. This program is also great for teacher to teacher collaboration. The program is always changing and enhancing so not only is the student learning but the teacher is as well.

I think ACCESS is a very valuable program that will be helpful to many teachers and students. This is a wonderful program that allows low income schools to offer higher level classes for their exeptional students.