- July 27, 2021
- Ed Timke
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In March, State Superintendent Dr. Michael Rice urged educators to enroll in the Social Emotional Learning: Introduction to SEL course. As part of the Michigan Department of Education’s (MDE) outreach plan — “Children Matter. You Matter. Learn SEL!” — MDE has asked every building leader and at least two to four teachers per building to complete this PD course.
You will earn 6 SCECHs in this free self-paced course and hone key components as defined by MDE, including:
The majority of our online professional development courses are self-paced, meaning there is no instructor and you can set your own pace for learning.
Some of our online professional development courses are facilitated, meaning that you will have an instructor guiding your journey through the course.
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Skip the paperwork — all you have to worry about is your learning. Once your course is completed, we will submit your SCECHs to the Michigan Online Educator Certification System (MOECS) for you.
Please allow 10 business days from course completion for your SCECHs to be processed.
Please refer to the Find Personal Identification Code (PIC) Guide.
The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) uses the Michigan Online Educator Certification System (MOECS) to renew teaching certificates for Michigan teachers. MDE authorizes Michigan Virtual as a State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECH) sponsor to provide courses that meet MDE SCECH standards. Information about your certificate renewal can be found at MDE – Educator Services.
As a special service to our educators, we will have extra staff working on SCECH processing towards the end of June 2021 to ensure that your SCECHs can be processed in time for the June 30 deadline.
As long as you complete your course by Sunday, June 27 at 11:59 pm, we guarantee your SCECHs will be processed by June 30. Course completions on June 28 or later may not be processed before July, and we will not be able to make exceptions for any learners. After June 30, we will resume our usual practices and process SCECHs within 10 business days.
After your course is marked as completed in the PLP, please allow 10 business days for your SCECHs to be processed. You will receive an email from MDE to the email address connected with your MOECS account with further instructions.
Please note: Courses often require time for feedback and grading. Please review the messaging within your course to learn whether extra time will be required after you submitted your assignments.
There could be a variety of reasons. Please begin by checking the following:
Please contact the Customer Care Center if you need assistance in PLP after checking on your course completion.
Please contact MOECS if you have questions about your MOECS account.
In order to receive SCECHs for courses completed through Michigan Virtual’s Professional Learning Portal, learners must abide by all policies stated below:
We’re sorry to inform you that we have reached capacity for several of our Semester 1 and Trimester 1 courses. You’ll notice when attempting to enroll students in our Student Learning Portal that some courses are unavailable. While we are no longer accepting new enrollments for these courses at this time, many courses continue to remain open for enrollment.
With many students across the state 100% remote, demand for our online courses is greater than ever before. Because every course we offer is taught by a Michigan-certified teacher, this high volume of enrollments has created capacity issues for our teachers who provide each and every student with individual feedback.
While the Michigan Virtual team anticipated and planned for significant increases in student enrollments this Fall, the increased demand we’ve experienced has been unprecedented. As a result, we are taking steps to hire even more part-and full-time teachers to support larger numbers of student enrollments for Semester 2 as well as for Trimester 2 and 3.
For schools that still need online learning options this year, please fill out the form at the bottom of our virtual pathways page to meet with someone to discuss other solutions. While some of our teacher-led courses are full, we may still have the capacity to help you in upcoming terms or can discuss timing to implement a whole-school or collaborative program in which local teachers from your school/district use our online course content to teach students. We also have free course content and resources available for you to use.
We know this is an incredibly stressful time for all, and we’re sorry if the courses you’re looking for are unavailable. We never want to turn away a student who wants to learn from us. Our top concern, however, is student success, and we have a policy to not take on additional enrollments if we cannot guarantee that all students will have a quality online learning experience.
We appreciate your patience and understanding as we navigate the unusually high volume of enrollments we are receiving.