PCC and the CVC Exchange

What is the CVC?

The California Virtual Campus Online Education Initiative (CVC-OEI) is a collaborative effort among California Community Colleges to ensure that more students can complete their educational goals by increasing both access to and success in high-quality online courses.

The CVC-OEI is a digital resource that provides easy access for students to enroll in fully online courses across all 115 brick-and-mortar California Community Colleges. It includes a comprehensive catalog of online programs and courses to help students achieve their educational goals.

What is the CVC Exchange?

The CVC (California Virtual College) Exchange is an innovative, student-centered tool that allows students currently enrolled in a California Community College to instantly enroll in online courses offered at eligible colleges without filling out a separate application.

A student must be enrolled in a Home College to participate.
Courses at a Teaching College are available for cross-enrollment.

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PCC Courses on the CVC

Pasadena City College is now participating in the exchange under two categories:

Home College: The California Community College from which a student enters the CVC Exchange to take courses through other colleges.
Teaching College: College that offers courses via the CVC Exchange to students from other participating colleges.

As a PCC instructor, your fully online course will automatically be made available through the exchange for cross-enrollment (enrollment between two colleges).

Your online course can be asynchronous or synchronous, as long as it is fully online. It cannot have any required on campus meetings.

Note: Current PCC students can enroll through Lancerpoint and do not need to register through the CVC-OEI Exchange to attend PCC classes.

Student signs into cvc.edu and identifies their Home College.
Student searches for classes sorted by category (CSU, IGETC, or topic)
Student selects the desired course for enrollment.

Courses appear in the search results based on the number of badges they have. Courses are eligible for the following badges:

Quality Reviewed: courses must complete the PCC POCR Quality Review process to receive this badge
Zero Textbook Cost: courses marked as OER/ZTC receive this badge

Available courses are displayed to students in the following order:

Available Home College courses
- Any Home College courses with a Quality Reviewed badge appear at the top of this list
Available Teaching College Courses
- Any Teaching College courses with a Quality Reviewed badge appear at the top of this list
Any other available courses offered through other CCCs participating in the Exchange

To learn more about PCC's POCR Program, contact our POCR Leads at POCR@pasadena.edu

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