What is online seminary?
Online seminary seeks to provide a daily seminary
experience that uses Internet technologies to connect
students and teachers together.
Each week, there are four days of online lessons, were
students study the scriptures, participate in online learning
experiences, and interact with their teacher and the other
students in their class.
Once each week, the teacher and all the students in the
class meet together in a face-to-face class.
"Good morning, students."
"Hi."
"Glad to see you so bright and early."
In locations where this is not possible, the weekly class may
be held virtually, using approved tools.
Classes are not held on Sunday.
[MUSIC: "SECRET PRAYER"]
(SINGING) There is an hour of peace and rest ...
An online class starts with students logging into their
online seminary class.
They start by participating in a devotional.
Then an online seminary lesson.
These lessons will require the students to study the
scriptures, look for answers, and write responses as part of
a guided, sequential scripture study.
An online lesson usually lasts from 30 to 45 minutes,
depending on the student's ability.
The students complete these four online lessons during the
weekdays on their own schedule.
They do not need to complete the lessons at the same time
as other students.
A student gets credit for an online lesson by completing
all of the assigned activities for that day.
Students should complete their lessons daily on
the assigned weekday.
The teacher and students study the same online lessons
together, as a group, each week.
The teacher will open and close the availability of the
lessons to help students stay caught up and learn together
as a class.
If a student does fall behind, the teacher can work with him
or her to decide the best way to complete the necessary
makeup work.
In addition to the online lessons and weekly class,
students will be asked to form the habit of personal
scripture study--outside of the time that they work on
their online seminary assignments.