Pre-Approved Online College Courses

Acadeum is your resource for online college courses. Use Acadeum Course Share to find and register for courses from accredited colleges and universities to earn credit that’s guaranteed to transfer back to your home institution, the school where you are enrolled. Whether you need to replace a grade, are in need of a more flexible schedule, or want to get ahead or stay on track toward your degree progress, Acadeum Course Share enables you to find the course equivalent you need.

Your school has partnered with Acadeum to offer you online courses from other institutions that help you toward your degree progress. Your school selects and approves the courses it wants to make available to you*, which means any course you complete is guaranteed to transfer both the credit and grade to your school’s transcript, just like a regular course. Unlike community college courses, which traditionally only allow students to transfer 40% of the credits they take to their home institution, courses taken through Acadeum have already been approved by your school, saving you both time and money in finding a course that will help you progress toward your degree.

*Typically your school will enter into a consortial agreement with other institutions that allows for a course taken from one of those institutions to be transcripted on your home institution’s transcript. This means that financial aid, where applicable, can be applied toward the course and that the course will count toward your on-campus GPA — which is not as likely if you were to take a course through a community college or another non-consortial institution. Without a consortial agreement, the course grade and credit are transcribed on the Teaching Institution’s transcript — the school where you are taking the course off-campus — but not at the school where you are enrolled. To receive this credit, you would have to request to have the Teaching Institution transcript sent to your school in order to to receive credit at your home institution.

Information provided may be subject to differences depending on your school's arrangement with Acadeum. Contact your school's registrar for more information.

If your school has partnered with Acadeum, then you are likely able to enroll in courses through Acadeum Course Share.

Acadeum’s online course offerings provide learning solutions for every type of student, no matter your specific needs or challenges.

Acadeum works for:

• Busy students

• Students who need to improve their GPAs

• Students who need a course to get back or stay on track

• Students looking to get ahead on their degree progress

• Students who aren't able to be on campus full-time or at all

• Students who need just a few more credits to earn their degree

A consortium is an agreement between schools that allows grades and credits to be transferred from one school to another. Essentially, the consortial agreement is both schools saying that their academic standards are aligned and that content taught at one school is comparable to that taught at the other.

The consortial agreement is a critical part of Acadeum’s online course offerings, because it guarantees that credit and grades you receive for completed courses will transfer to your home institution, which is not common for courses taken outside of your home institution. In fact, usually only 40% of credits taken at community colleges transfer back to the home institution, resulting in a loss of time and money for the student.

Your Home Institution is the school where you are enrolled. Your Home Institution records your enrollment, issues credit & grades, provides financial aid services when applicable, collects tuition & fees, and is your institution of record.

A Teaching Institution is the school that you are taking a course from that is not your institution of record. The Teaching Institution is responsible for delivering instruction for the course you are enrolled in, and supplies your Home Institution with your grade upon completion of the course.