(a) Each virtual education course approved by the Department shall have clearly defined requirements for the participation of any student enrolled in the course.
(b) Course participation requirements shall establish expectations for student interaction with the virtual education course. They shall also be measurable, recorded, and verified by the virtual education teacher. Participation requirements shall be used by the districts and the Department for funding and accountability purposes.
(c) Any district that is a virtual education provider shall be responsible for documenting and recording in the learning management system used by the district, not less than once every five (5) program days, the participation of any student enrolled in the course.
(d) For each course, the number of days any student is reported as having participated shall be based on the course-specific virtual education program calendar submitted to the Department.
(e) At the end of each school year, for purposes of determining membership, the number of days on which a student was enrolled and participating in virtual education shall be the number of days in membership and must be converted to the number of days in the school calendar. The number of days in membership shall be divided by the number of regularly scheduled courses in the school in which the student is enrolled. The sum shall be the aggregate membership (e.g., if a student has one-hundred and seventy-five (175) days of virtual course participation and the school in which the student is enrolled offers eight (8) regularly-scheduled courses, the student's aggregate membership for the course would be 21.875).
(f) A district's documentation and recording of student participation in any virtual education course offered by the district shall be compiled in a participation report generated by a learning management system to include automatically recorded and virtual education teacher recorded elements. The participation report shall be generated at the administrative level and stored for future audit and monitoring purposes.
206-41 Wyo. Code R. § 41-12
Amended, Eff. 4/24/2018.