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Attendance Policy

The Arizona Department of Education requires a minimum number of hours per week and semester for each grade level to be considered "attending school." Attendance in WVA courses will be measured through participation in assignments, completion, and submission of lessons, reading required books, and in general correspondence with the WVA teachers, as well as hours recorded in the learning management system.   Attendance will be submitted each week through the StudentVue/ParentVue Portal.  The State Attendance policy is as follows:  

If students do not "attend" the appropriate amount of time, credit will not be granted for the class, the student could fail the class(es) and be withdrawn from WVA.

The students can schedule their weekly required hours as they like each week, but they need to have the correct total of hours completed for each semester class at the end of 18 weeks.  Students are strongly encouraged to set a daily school schedule and be aware of their teacher's "office hours" so that the student is able to contact their teacher while the teacher is available.  

Teachers will post their office hours to check progress and answer emails each day, so the student knows when to expect a reply.  If evenings and weekends work better for the student, this is fine, but the student will not have the advantage of emailing a teacher and getting a prompt reply. All WVA courses are designed to be highly interactive and require that the students participate in the course content online each week as well as communicate with instructors.  A student’s learning and ultimate success depend upon this communication.  

All high school teachers work at school for 9 hours per day and will probably not respond to email questions until the next day so high school students need to allow a 24 hour response time when emailing teachers. 

Extended periods of non-participation in an online class will be evident in the following ways:

  1. Failure to log into the course following attendance guidelines, or complete assignments.

  2. Failure to communicate with the instructor through email.

  3. Failure to submit required lessons online or offline assignments to teachers.  

SEE STUDENT HANDBOOK FOR GRADE SPECIFIC WITHDRAWAL/DROP POLICIES.​​​​​​