Intensive ESL (4 Levels) : 2464.0 Hours

Semi-Intensive ESL (4 Levels): 2112.0 Hours

Standard ESL (4 Levels): 1636.8 Hours

Students must have a cumulative grade point average of 70% or a “C” grade and minimum 80% cumulative attendance in order to be considered for graduation. Certification of completion may also be requested for each level a student has successfully completed. The Advanced level is the final level, and upon passing it, a student will have completed the program and will be eligible to graduate. Upon successfully graduating from the program level, and meeting all completion requirements, students will receive a Certificate. 

The Certificate will be available to graduates no later than thirty (30) days from the last day of attendance unless Hollywood Education Institute receives a written request to provide it earlier.

The students will take a placement test to determine their proficiency level, which will be placed in one of four: Beginning, Intermediate I, Intermediate II, or Advanced. If a student does not achieve a 70% or a “C” at the end of current program level, he/she must repeat the current program level with a documented learning plan.

A student may obtain training from Hollywood Education Institute for a maximum of 36 months.

A student achieving a grade point average below 70% or a “C” at the time of evaluation will be advised of his/her unsatisfactory academic progress and placed on academic probation with a documented learning plan for 11 weeks in any programs until such time as his/her grade point average reaches a minimum of 70% or “C.” If the student fails to achieve a “C” average within 11 weeks, he/she will be withdrawn. The students will get notified by email. 

For the international student a student’s visa remains active while on probation. In case of withdrawal, it will also report to the SEVIS. 

Hollywood Education Institute will automatically administratively withdraw a student after s/he has been absent for a maximum of thirty (30) consecutive calendar days (excluding any scheduled breaks of the institution).

The student will be notified verbally and in writing or an email if he or she is being administratively withdrawn for unsatisfactory academic progress.

If a student does not agree with a progress report or probation status, the student may appeal the statements/decision. The student must submit a written or an email appeal to the President within seven (7) business days from the report receiving date with documentation to support the appeal, where appropriate. The President will respond within seven (7) business days and notify the student in writing.

Policy

Hollywood Education Institute has developed the following policy and procedure to elucidate the attendance requirement of students. All students at Hollywood Education Institute must maintain a total attendance percentage of 80 percent or higher (i.e., 80% overall attendance). A student is considered late if he/she is not in the classroom by the time their first class is scheduled to begin or in their assigned classroom within the first 5 minutes of the scheduled class time (e.g., if a class is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m., a student must have logged into the institution’s attendance application by 9:00 a.m. and in their assigned classroom by 9:05 a.m.). A student is considered an early departure if he/she does not remain in their assigned classroom until the class has been dismissed (e.g., if a class is scheduled to end at 10:05 a.m., a student must remain in class until 10:05 a.m.) As an added measure, both tardiness and early departures are tracked with the use of an attendance roster, which is completed daily by the instructor for his/her class.

Acceptable indications of attendance include completing assessments and/or performing tasks or activities on a given day. 

If you find that you cannot meet the class’ minimum discussion requirements due to such a circumstance, please contact your instructor as soon as possible.

Attendance is critical to the student’s success in taking the Hollywood Education Institute program. The instructor is responsible for student attendance. The instructor needs to monitor and give student attendance in each class during class time.

1. The students must log in to the Hollywood Education Institute’s learning management system and attend the live class. The students who join the in-residence class must log-in and show up at the classroom.
2. The students must participate in the class and complete the assignments, classwork, quizzes, and examination according to the instructor’s instruction,
3. Instructors are required to monitor students’ attendance in each class.
4. There are 3 options to give student attendance:

(P) Present: 100%

Students log in, attend live class on time, actively participate in class, and complete assignments and examinations within a given time from the instructor.

(D) Deduction: 70%

Students who are late to the live class are more than 5 minutes late. Students who leave early, he/she does not remain in their assigned classroom until the class has been dismissed. Students inactively participate in the live class. Students do not complete the assignments and examinations within the given time from the instructor.

(A) Absence: 0%

Students do not attend the live class.

All Hollywood Education Institute’s students are required to maintain a minimum of 80% attendance.

What does it mean to “attend” a class?

Attendance is critical to the student’s success in taking a class. Taking attendance allows the institution to make clear determinations of when a student last attended class. When it comes to attendance in a course, it may seem a little unclear how attendance is defined. Listed below is very specific information that can help guide our decision-making when designing courses for an online environment.

What is an acceptable indication of attendance?

The acceptable indications of attendance in a course can include:

• Students submission of an academic assignment(s)
• Students submission of an exam
• Documented students participation in an interactive tutorial or computer-assisted instruction
• The students showing participation in an online/hybrid study group that is assigned by the institution
• The students in a discussion forum showing the student’s participation in an online/hybrid discussion about academic matters

What does not sufficiently indicate attendance? 

In a distance education context, documenting that a student has logged into an online class is not sufficient, by itself, to demonstrate academic attendance by the student.” Essentially, a student must be required to do more than just “log in” to be documented as having attended an online course. The students who join an in-residence class and do not participate in-class activities are also considered as not sufficient.