ACCESS

ACCESS is a revolutionary program that stands for Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide and will give students an entirely new avenue to receive instruction. Some of ACCESS's advantages include providing high school students with courses they could not receive in their physical high school, allowing students to participate in dual enrollment, as well as affording students the opportunity to take advanced placement courses even if their current school does not provide them.

The classes on ACCESS would be taught by Alabama certified teachers, offering quality instruction anywhere in Alabama in a multitude of courses that students would not have access to otherwise. ACCESS began to take shape in 2005 by setting up 24 Pilot Sites around Alabama and they have been expanding throughout the years and now there is at least one lab in each county in Alabama. These labs accommodate students web-based courses, real time video instruction and a combination of the two.

Like ALEX, ACCESS is another helpful tool that will improve the future of education. Students will have opportunities to take courses they would have been unable to take otherwise. This Internet is always opening up new possibilities and ACCESS no exception.