Mark your calendars for the Pittsburgh National College Fair at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on Feb. 5 & 6. See the Calendar of Events for details.
Online Courses

Students take courses online for many different reasons. Some reasons might include:
  • Students are not able to fit a class into their schedule but have the time to take the course during the day online.  
  • Students work online over the summer to recover credit needed for graduation or to take additional courses not offered by Pine-Richland. 
Online courses themselves can be quite different from each other.  They are either asynchronous or synchronous.
  • Asynchronous courses are ones that students work on the course on their own time.
  • Synchronous are courses that have set times and students must be available to take the class. 
Items to Consider When Taking Online Courses:
  • Do you have a computer at home that is compatible with the system requirements of the course?
  • Whether or not you enjoy learning electronically with little or no physical interaction from the teacher.
  • Whether or not you are self-disciplined, highly organized and/or strongly motivated for independent learning.
Students must work closely with their guidance counselors so that details of the online course, including the fees involved, the location of the computer to be used, and the time devoted to completing the course, are thoroughly understood.

As third party courses, online courses receive a grade from the providers that created and teach them.  The course and credit are documented on the Pine-Richland transcript, but the grade is not calculated into the Pine-Richland GPA.