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WAOL Courses

WashingtonOnline (WAOL) hosts distance-learning courses for the Community and Technical Colleges of Washington state. It can accommodate fully online courses as well as hybrid courses with on campus components. WAOL makes it possible for colleges to share courses as well as host private courses.

Sharing courses is unique to WAOL. Here's how it works: A college creates and submits a course to WAOL. Once this class is approved and assigned a WAOL Course ID number, other colleges can adopt the course and offer it to their students.

The college adopting (or offering) the course assigns their own name and item number to the course and when the college builds the course in their system, they add the appropriate WAOL ID number. When a student enrolls into a course with a WAOL ID attached, the enrollment is entered into the WAOL database. When enrolled into a shared course, enrollments from multiple colleges pool together at WAOL and an automated system breaks them down into separate classrooms. The college that hires the instructor decides on the class capacity and the college that enrolls the student pays an instruction fee to the teaching college.

The five types of courses WAOL hosts include:
System-funded, shared courses* Course developed in coordination with WAOL and funded by the Community and Technical (CTC) system. Once this course is assigned a WAOL Course ID number, other colleges may adopt the course; therefore it is 'shared'.
College-funded, shared courses* Course developed at a college with college funds, with the intention of sharing with other colleges.
College-funded, private courses Course developed at a college with college funds. The course is not available to be adopted by other colleges.
College-funded, private, hybrid courses Traditional on-ground course with less than 50% online component.
Flexible courses Courses that make use of a schedule or billing model that does not fall into the college YRQ-based structure. Examples of these courses may be faculty or staff training or other continuing education.

The five types of courses WAOL hosts include:

System-funded, shared courses*

Course developed in coordination with WAOL and funded by the Community and Technical (CTC) system. Once this course is assigned a WAOL Course ID number, other colleges may adopt the course; therefore it is 'shared'.

College-funded, shared courses*

Course developed at a college with college funds, with the intention of sharing with other colleges.

College-funded, private courses

Course developed at a college with college funds. The course is not available to be adopted by other colleges.

College-funded, private, hybrid courses

Traditional on-ground course with less than 50% online component.

Flexible courses

Courses that make use of a schedule or billing model that does not fall into the college YRQ-based structure. Examples of these courses may be faculty or staff training or other continuing education.