Faculty and students did an incredible job adapting to an emergency remote delivery model as part of UVU’s response to COVID-19 during the Spring and Fall 2020 semesters! For Spring and Fall 2021, classes were offered in three primary modalities — face-to-face, livestream, and online. UVU Faculty, Staff, and Administrators have continued to work to provide on campus experiences, including face to face classroom options, but they've also made great progress in providing students the flexibility that comes from being able to choose between different delivery types. Not everything is online, but most high enrollment courses do have online delivery options.
There are some important distinctions between emergency remote delivery and designated online courses.
Intentional design: Designated online courses are designed, developed, and reviewed for quality over many months under normal operating conditions. Working with the instructional team, faculty develop a design plan for the course. Faculty are intentional about selecting and crafting learning content, incorporating opportunities for instructor feedback and engagement with their students, facilitating peer-to-peer communications, and assessing student learning.
Team approach: Faculty developers collaborate with instructional designers and instructional technologists who are educated and experienced in the design and implementation of online course content and delivery. Faculty often build standardized courses on behalf of their department with support from and collaboration with other faculty members.
Quality review: For each designated online course developed with faculty and the instructional design team, a quality review is conducted. Each course is typically reviewed by three different anonymous reviewers using the “UVU Course Design Rubric” standard. After the first semester of offering the course, student input is also provided, with the recommendations provided to the faculty member to incorporate into the course.Students who take a mix of both face-to-face and traditional online courses persist (re-enroll the following semester) at higher rates than those students who take exclusively traditional classroom or exclusively designated online courses. Data shows these students tend to graduate at higher rates, too — and sooner than their counterparts.
Students should thoughtfully consider their circumstances, available time, willingness to commit, differences in delivery, etc. We recommend that most students continue to take courses over the summer and often, more than 50% of summer course sections are designated online courses.
Yes! There are many areas of study you can choose from, leading to more than 40 different online programs –unique certificates, associate, bachelor’s, or master’s degrees.
Students register for online classes through the regular UVU registration process. Instructions and deadlines can be found at UVU's Registration page.
It is simple to distinguish regular online courses from face-to-face classes by looking at the section number. Online sections begin with an X, and sections X51-X59 are designated for the Global Aviation and Emergency Services online distance programs.
All UVU online courses are charged regular tuition and fees with the exception of the Global Aviation and Emergency Services out of state programs.
UVU Online classes begin and end on the regular UVU semester. Most courses will have deadlines throughout the semester. Students that follow all deadlines even if they are suggested due dates are the most successful at completing the courses.
The first day of the semester you need to login to myUVU. Click on the Canvas icon. Your class(es) will be listed under the Courses drop down. Select your class. Here you will find things such as a course outline and syllabus, a welcome message, and lesson modules. Homework is submitted through Canvas. Also, online classes do not typically have regular meetings times as face-to-face classes do (i.e. meeting only from 9:00-11:30 on Tuesday and Thursday), but some might require synchronous meetings and there will be deadlines throughout the semester.
Online students can benefit from many UVU resources. Most UVU organizations have not only shifted to remotely delivering those services but were set up to help 100% online students before. The Fulton Library, academic tutoring center, advisement center, and others are ready to help.
Check out the Being an Online Student page for more information.
Canvas is the current Learning Management System (LMS) used for online course materials for UVU. Students can access the online components of their courses through myUVU by clicking on the Canvas icon in the upper right corner, or by using this link to UVU Canvas.
Google Chrome is the best browser followed by Firefox. Apple’s Safari and Microsoft’s IE are not as compatible. You will want to make sure you are using the most updated version of whichever browser you are using.
Canvas Guides provides a list of basic specifications.
If you would like to participate in a Canvas orientation for students, click on Canvas Tour. It is both a virtual tour through UVU campus and an interactive exploration of the Canvas tools that will be most useful to you.
You can also visit the Canvas Support for Students at the Office of Teaching & Learning website for links to additional resources.
Professors may contact you through your student email through myUVU or through Canvas. It is recommended to forward your myUVU student email to your preferred email address by following these instructions:
Even though the messages are being forwarded the original message will be kept in the myUVU email account. There is currently no way to have the originals deleted automatically after the forward has been completed, they must be deleted manually in myUVU mail.
Professor contact information should be available in the syllabus information found in the course on Canvas.
You will need to talk with the instructor to see if it is still possible to catch up or not. If it is possible to catch up, you may want to contact your academic advisor for suggestions on study tips and tutoring suggestions.
Contact your instructor right away if your grade on an assignment or your final grade is missing or you believe it is wrong. Contact information can be found on your syllabus.
Contact your academic advisor and explain the situation. Your advisor will be able to provide you with the forms to petition a Withdraw if you have proper documentation of your situation.
You must contact your instructor if you wish to take an exam before it is set to open.
If an exam in your online course requires a password you will need to take your exam under proctored conditions. See the Exam Proctoring webpage for step-by-step instructions.
You must contact your instructor if you need a test or assignment reopened. You can then forward the permission from the instructor to the Canvas Support if needed.
