Dates and Deadlines
Application Deadlines
Fall 2024
August 15, 2024: Application opens
August 26, 2024: Course enrollment opens
December 15, 2024: Application closes
December 20, 2024: Course enrollment closes
Spring 2025
December 15, 2024: Application opens
December 23, 2024: Course enrollment opens
May 1, 2025: Application closes
May 9, 2025: Course enrollment closes
Summer 2025
May 1, 2025: Application opens
May 12, 2025: Course enrollment opens
August 15, 2025: Application closes
August 20, 2025: Course enrollment closes
Key Dates for Online Flex Courses
You have six months from the date of registration to complete an asynchronous self-paced course. Check the “Your Classes'' card in Buff Portal to confirm the expiration date. You have 40 calendar days from the registration date to drop a course with a full refund. If you need to drop or make any changes to your schedule, you may do so using Buff Portal.
Additional details on drop policies and deadlines:
- You will have 40 calendar days from registration to drop an EDUA course without any mark on a transcript and receive a full tuition refund.
- If the 40 day mark falls outside of the term in which students enroll, students won’t be able to drop themselves and must email cerecords@colorado.edu for help.
- You may withdraw from an EDUA course after submitting a final/summative assignment for the given course, as long as you meet the withdrawal deadline and a final grade has not yet been posted.
- You may not withdraw from a course once a final grade has been posted.
- After 40 calendar days of enrollment:
- You may submit the Online Flex Withdrawal Form to formally withdraw from the class before the course expiration date.
- If you do not withdraw before the course expiration date, you will receive a grade. Any unsubmitted coursework will default to a zero (0) when the course expires and will negatively impact final course grade.
- No course extensions are allowed.
- You must complete an EDUA course within 6 months of enrollment date. It is your responsibility to keep track of course expiration dates.
Summer Capstone Courses
The last course for each certificate is a real-time capstone course that brings together all the content and curriculum. This course runs as a three-week intensive after academic school years end in June/July. The classes run for four hours a day, Monday to Friday, for three weeks. Synchronous classes will be broken up with independent and group time, mixed with a range of class activities.
Capstone Courses - Variable Session (3 weeks)
Event | EDUA 5034 | EDUA 5003, 5007 | EDUA 5018, 5022, 5026, 5030 |
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Class Begins | June 4 | June 9 | June 23 |
Deadline to Add a Class+ | June 7 | June 11 | June 25 |
Deadline to Drop++, 100% Tuition Adjustment | June 7 | June 11 | June 25 |
Deadline to Withdraw** Online, No Tuition Adjustment | June 16 | June 20 | July 4 |
Deadline to Withdraw*** | June 24 | June 27 | July 11 |
Class Ends | June 24 | June 27 | July 11 |
All times are in Mountain Time.
† Add a class by 11:59 p.m. online using Buff Portal. Adding a class after the start-date requires program director and instructor approval.
++ Drop a class by 11:59 p.m. online using Buff Portal or by email to info.online@colorado.edu.
** Withdraw by 11:59 p.m. online using Buff Portal or by email to info.online@colorado.edu. A notation of W will appear on your transcript.
*** Withdraw by 11:59 p.m. by email to info.online@colorado.edu. A grade of W will appear on your transcript.
^ Petitioning is designed to provide students who experience unavoidable, extenuating circumstances the opportunity to waive a University policy that, if enforced, would result in unsatisfactory academic progress or financial consequences. For more information, please contact info.online@colorado.edu.
Time Limits
Certificate students have a maximum of six months to complete an individual Online Flex course and two years to complete a certificate program.