Youngstown State University is committed to providing an excellent academic experience during this pandemic. The method of delivery for each class is determined after a thorough assessment by deans, department chairs, faculty and other campus experts. Classes are assessed to ensure a safe and healthy learning environment, quality instruction and engagement with faculty.
Course Modalities
- Traditional (TR) class instruction will continue to be offered this fall. Students will attend class on campus but maintain social distancing, health and safety protocols.
- Set Day/Time
- Set Location
- 100% In-Person Class Meetings
- Agile-Hybrid Campus and Virtual Campus will be new instructional methods for the fall. These modalities will be a combination approach using traditional face-to-face and virtual instruction methods, which allows the university to meet necessary safety measures while maintaining a consistent academic experience for students.
- Set Day/Time
- Set Location and Online Class Meetings
- May have some in-person class meetings
- May have live video conference class meetings or broadcasts from the “classrooms of the future” weekly
- Online Live will be a new instructional method for the fall. This approach will provide a completely online class with live instruction.
- Set Day/Time
- Set Online Class Meetings
- No In-Person Class Meetings
- Live Video Conference Meetings
- Web-Based (WB) will continue to be offered this fall. Students work with the deadlines established by the course instructor.
- No set day/time
- No In-Person Class Meetings
- 100% Online Learning Experience
- The Office of the Registrar anticipates most students’ schedules will have a combination of all class modalities.
- Students should review their “active registration” in the portal to see if some of their class instructional methods have changed.
- Students may adjust their fall registration through the last day to add a class, change a grading option, and/or change a credit option deadline; those deadlines are listed for each part of term on the Calendars page.
- The fall classroom assignment schedule is still under development as we move courses into different classrooms to accommodate reduced class sizes; we suggest that students check their active registration in the portal for traditional, agile-hybrid campus
How to Access Your “Active Registration”
- Log in to the PenguinPortal
- Under "e-Service for Students", select "Access My Student Information"
- The Student and Financial Aid menu will populate; select “Registration”
- Select “Active Registration” to view your instructional method for each course in which you are registered
How to Search the Schedule of Classes for Different Instructional Methods
- Log in to the PenguinPortal
- Under “e-Service for Students”, select “Register for Classes”
- Select the Fall 2020 term when prompted
- Select “Look Up Classes” to review the Schedule of Classes
- Select the Fall 2020 term when prompted
- Click on the “Advanced Search” button
- Highlight a course subject to highlight all subjects if you want to review all courses.
- Select the Instructional Method you wish to search by (i.e., Agile Campus Hybrid)
- Click on the “Section Search” button to review the results.