UBC's New Policy on Distributed Learning Courses

UBC has some new policies when it comes to distributed learning courses (which includes courses you are taking online with any online school). The new policy is a lot stricter than the past, and may impact your choice of taking or continuing with an online course if you plan to go to UBC.

The policy affects students who are planning to use one/more of their online courses to calculate their admission averages. Instead of requiring you to complete 50% or more of the course by a set deadline, you now have to complete THE ENTIRE COURSE BY FEBRUARY 1, 2014 for UBC to accept the mark your online school reports. For individual courses, your online teacher may require you to finish the course even sooner, in order for them to have your marks ready to be submitted.

The actual wording from UBC on this policy reads like this:

If you are currently taking, or plan to take Distributed Learning courses (e.g., online courses, distance learning, or courses at another school) to meet your admission requirements, include these courses in the list of courses you will complete this year in the ‘academic profile’ section of the UBC application, and do not provide an in-progress grade.
Completion dates for Distributed Learning courses:

• If you wish to use your Distributed Learning course in the calculation of your competitive admission average, the course must be 100% complete by February 1, 2014 and your Distributed Learning provider/school must submit the final grade to the Ministry of Education so that it appears on your Ministry of Education Student Secure Web in time for you to self-report these grades in March/April.
• Distributed learning courses completed by June 30, 2014 can be used to meet pre-requisites but will not be used in the calculation of your competitive admission average.

(taken from UBC's Undergraduate Program and Admissions Page, click this link for details)