Sophomores and juniors were required to check their home access accounts during third period Jan. 28. In order to select courses, every student must know how to access their personal account on HAC, which will be necessary for CAP (career action plan) conferences.
CAP and CAP conferences will run almost identically to last years, except this year a new twist has been made digitally. As normal, a student’s third period teacher is their CAP adviser and most of the CAP process will take place at school, during activity period. The only difference in this years CAP conferences is that the course request selection will happen online through HAC- (home access center for students and parents) has the option of entering course requests through the system.
“Students will have course recommendation sheets and they will still meet with their parents/CAP teacher to confirm their requests,” said senior English teacher and dance coach Lindsay Smith. “As of right now, there is a place to select the SLC on the course recommendation sheet. Course requests will be entered online towards the end of February.”
The added online requests are meant to hopefully help and speed up the scheduling process. The other recently made addition to CAP conferences this year is that the also new small learning communities will be chosen during CAP.
“I like it a lot more because I think it will let the students have more say in their classes,” said Pre-Calculus and Geometry teacher Brittany Roland.
Roland thinks CAP will be a faster and more easier process now that it’s going digital. Roland also hopes that CAP conferences will stay this way and that students will like this new process more because students are actively selecting their courses online. However, Roland is not as fond of SLC’s also taking place at this time.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea. I think you should choose SLC’s before your classes, so you know what electives go with it,” said Roland.
However, junior Taylor Vanhook’s opinion about the new course selection differs from teachers.
“I dont like it. I don’t know how I’m expected to know what classes I want for next year already,” said Vanhook.
Vanhook believes the new process won’t be any faster or easier and will remain the same speed because teachers will still be recommending what classes you should take. Even though Vanhook doesn’t like the new process, she believes other students might.
“I think students shouldn’t have a problem with CAP conferences going digital, but I think they’ll have a problem with selecting small learning communities,” said Vanhook.
Like Roland, Vanhook doesn’t like the idea of small communities taking place during CAP. Well, Vanhook doesn’t like the idea of SLC’s at all.
“If I wanted small learning communities, I’d go to Springdale,” said Vanhook.
