How to Earn Offline Time
Offline Activities
OFFLINE ACTIVITIES & LOG ENTRIES
The purpose of Offline/Enrichment Time is to take your learning outside of the virtual classroom. The key word is LEARNING. The goal is to improve and expand your knowledge by engaging in educational activities (this is school, after all).
This is an opportunity to get hours toward your weekly 25-hour requirement. You may earn a maximum of 2.5 to 3 hours of enrichment activities per day. The other 2+ hours per day should be spent on VLA. While Offline/Enrichment activities are not a requirement, they are helpful to reach your weekly attendance requirement.
What exactly is an Offline Activity or a Log Entry?
For GOVS, students can earn time credit toward their attendance requirement by doing two things:
- Logging into the VLA system and actively working on a unit. (Automatically counted)
- Completing an Offline Activity. (Student entered)
When students are logged into VLA, they are automatically getting time credit. This shows up in the top left corner of your VLA home page under Online This Week. That number will continually increase every time you are online actively completing a unit. You have to be actively working in order for this time to show your work correctly. BUT -- many of our students complete other activities to get time towards their 25 hours a week minimum. Remember, if you do not get your 25 hours a week, you are considered truant, and can be withdrawn from GOVS.
There are three ways to earn offline time:
1. Enrichment (Listed as a class on your schedule)
2. Academic Coach (Listed as a class on your schedule)
3. Academic Lessons (In the last question of each lesson, the is an opportunity to log offline time by completing the suggested activity or accessing the Unit Resources in the blue toolbar in the lesson.)
Students are responsible for logging this offline time each week.
How to get credit for the offline activity:In order to get credit for your offline time, your entries need to follow the following format:
Format of Entries
Note the date and time you completed the activity. Please document only the time of the activity. In the next section, include a brief description of the activity. The third question highlights what you learned. Aim to include at least three different things you learned during the activity. Finally, describe how the activity was educational for you. Failure to follow this format will result in a REDO or NO CREDIT for the submission.
(All sections below must be included for credit)
Start Time:
End Time:
Activity Description:
What did you learn during this activity (aim for three things)?
What made this activity educational for you?
Example:
Start Time: 5:00pm
End Time: 6:30pm
Activity Description: I read chapters 10, 11, and 12 of Harry Potter - Book 7
What did you learn during this activity (aim for three things)? In chapter 10, Harry, Rom, and Hermione figure out that R.A.B. is Sirius' brother. They ask Kreacher what happened and if the locket was destroyed. Kreacher tells them the story of how Regulus died and how Kreacher couldn't destroy the locket. Kreacher tells them the story of how Regulus died and how Kreacher couldn't destroy the locket. Kreacher said the locket was stolen by Mundungus. Harry asks Kreacher to find Mundungus. In chapter 11, Lupin comes to Grimmauld Place and asks to come with Harry, Ron, and Hermione to help destroy Voldemort. Harry says no, and they get into a fight. Kreacher brings Mundungus back, and Mundungus says that the locket was taken by Delores Umbridge. In chapter 12, Harry, Ron, and Hermione plan how they are going to break into the ministry. They leave Grimmauld Place and use the polyjuice potion to turn into ministry workers. They get inside the ministry and try to find Umbridge.
What made this activity educational for you? This activity was educational because I worked on expanding my vocabulary and learned new vocabulary words.
One mistake students make is that they enter an offline activity (log entry) but the time they put in for the activity overlaps with time they are already online.
Meaning - say you logged into VLA at 9am. You started working on English. Part of your assignment was to read a short story, so you did that. You entered an offline activity in the last question of the unit, but put down 9am-10am for the time. That overlaps with the time you were signed on to VLA. You cannot receive double the time credit.
When you complete offline activities, it is best to make the start and end time during a part of the day when you are not online to ensure you receive credit.
If you need more information about offline time or want to see more examples of approved entries, you can look at the text portion of your Enrichment Activities class on your schedule or reach out to your Academic Coach.