As of February, 2020, the University of California has updated their online publisher course policies. The UC no longer maintains a list of “A-G Approved” courses from online curriculum providers; rather, they offer an “Online Course Publisher Directory,” which can be accessed at the University of California A-G Policy Resource Guide. Any course publisher found in the directory has course options of sufficient rigor that both the UC and California State Universities would consider college prep.
All schools are responsible for maintaining their own A-G course lists with the UC using your site’s A-G Management Portal. The page called “University of California A-G Policy Resource Guide” will assist you in updating and managing your own sites’ A-G lists. It will also explain the procedures for adding online courses and publishers to your lists.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CYBER HIGH USERS:
While this is explained on the UC website, online course publishers like Cyber High no longer submit courses to UC for review and A-G approval. Rather, schools now:
- certify that the online courses from their selected UC-registered online course publisher(s) are comparable to A-G courses offered at the high school
- self-report the courses to UC so that they are added to the school’s A-G course list, along with all the non-online courses they also offer
- should review courses on our Website or Course Catalog as we indicate which of our courses either have been approved in the past and/or are those we consider to be of sufficient rigor to be A-G college-prep appropriate in each subject area
It is extremely important that school sites utilizing Cyber High consider these recommendations before adding a Cyber High course to their UC course lists; the UC is auditing schools’ lists and online courses, and they will penalize those they find to be out of compliance with A-G subject-area standards.