What Courses are Included on the CVC Exchange? 

The CVC Exchange is designed to provide California’s community college students with access to fully online courses across the state’s 116 colleges, in order to help students complete requirements to complete their programs at their Home Colleges. This means that students in the most remote areas of California can have access to these fully online courses as a way to complete their education goals. As such, the CVC Exchange search results only include courses that are coded as 100% online, with no in-person requirements for physical meetings, labs, or exams. Although the CVC does depend wholly on the coding/categorization practices of each Teaching College, at times some courses slip through that do not fit our criteria. In these cases, once we are made aware, we unlist these courses and communicate directly with the Chief Instructional Officers at those colleges.

The list below details what is and is not currently included on the CVC Exchange. Note that this list provides a snapshot of the current inclusion criteria, but CVC’s future roadmap will include Non-Credit, CSU/UC, CBE, CPL and Dual Enrollment options in the Exchange.

Courses Automatically Included

• For-credit, fully online courses from California Community Colleges that are designated as Home Colleges.
• Fully online courses with optional in-person meetings, as long as the courses are coded as fully online and the comments clearly delineate the optional nature of those in-person meetings. 
• Fully online courses with required fully online proctored exams (using tools like Proctorio or HonorLock) which do not require a visit to a physical site, lab, campus, or center. 
• Courses that are fully online asynchronous, fully online synchronous, or a mix of these two methods.
  Fully online lecture and lab and corequisite courses that auto enroll the student into both sections.

Courses Sometimes Included

• Some Non-Credit courses offered by traditional CCCs, depending on how the college categorizes them and allows enrollment into them.
• HyFlex courses, when individual sections are enrollable as fully online, are coded as fully online, and when these sections have no required in-person visits to a campus or testing center.  
• Some colleges have opted to exclude classes that have prerequisite requirements for enrollment. This is due to limited support staff to review prerequisite clearance requests. As such, courses with prerequisites are sometimes included on the CVC Exchange.

Courses Never Included

• Fully online courses that require an in-person meeting (like a proctored exam, a required lab activity on campus, or a required physical visit to a testing center).
• Hybrid courses that have any portion of class meetings held in-person at a college campus or other physical location.
• Courses from Non-Credit Colleges (NOCE and SDCCCE).