Hello from the MTDA offices in Missoula!
Per our posted academic calendars, MTDA is closed from April 7-10, 2023. During that time, no teacher services are available including the credit recovery grading service.
The MTDA administrative offices will be open on Monday, April 10, 2023.
Happy Spring!
Hello from MTDA’s central offices at the University of Montana in Missoula!
With school cost-sharing in mind, we ask schools to take heightened notice of our spring 2023 original credit and middle school drop deadline. Per our academic calendar and cost-sharing information page, this term’s drop deadline is Monday, February 13th.
Directions for putting in a drop request appear here. Drops are processed every day on weekdays. Once the course is dropped, it no longer appears on the student’s profile screen or your current enrollment reports.
After the drop deadline, MTDA will pull enrollment reports for the term and start invoices for your school for the spring term. We will apply charges for each listed enrollment in the original credit and middle school programs. Any original credit or middle school drops prior to the end of business Monday, February 13, 2023, will not be charged the cost-sharing fee. Please review the cost-sharing information page for all program-specific information.
MTDA staff strongly suggests that you review your enrollment list this week to audit your current enrollments. You can check your current enrollments in GeniusSIS by going to the ACTION REPORT tab, then pressing “Get Data.” Please be certain the report is accurate and shows all of the students you want to be enrolled. After the drop deadline, all listed enrollments will be invoiced with no exceptions.
If you have any questions about this process, please contact our support desk or offices, 406-203-1812, right away!
MTDA has released the Summer 2023 Original Credit and Credit Recovery briefing pages as well as the academic calendar for both programs. If your school is interested in enrolling students in either program please review the briefing documents in detail as there are a number of factors to consider during the summer term.
Summer Academic Calendars are now available.
Cost-Sharing fees remain the same for Summer 2023.
MTDA has released Fall 2023 course lists and academic calendars for High School and Middle School Original Credit programs and the SY2023-2024 Credit Recovery program. MTDA is planning on additional course titles that will be added to the course list throughout the spring. The course list will be updated and additional communications will be sent out as additions are added.
Fall Briefing pages will be released when enrollment opens for each program.
Please don’t hesitate to contact our staff with any questions or concerns.
The Senior Exit Information has been updated for Spring 2023 semester. Please review here:
Thank you,
Mike Agostinelli, Ed.S.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | CURRICULUM DIRECTOR
MONTANA DIGITAL ACADEMY
Phyllis J. Washington College of Education at the University of Montana
t: 406-203-1812 | f: 406-203-1815
e: mike@mtda.org | w: www.mtda.org
Good day from the Montana Digital Academy headquarters at the University of Montana in Missoula! On behalf of our faculty and staff, welcome back to school! I hope you had an opportunity to step away from the office this summer.
MTDA staff is hard at work preparing for the upcoming school year and look forward to working with you and your students and staff. MTDA has several new programs and opportunities for students that we’ll share in the coming weeks via our school administrator and facilitator announcement emails. However, I’d like to focus on three important messages for all Montana schools.
First, MTDA is ready to serve individual middle school and high school public school students in a full-time capacity for the 22-23 school year. If you have students who need multiple enrollments to help meet their educational goals or to facilitate being remote from your school, we can serve students in up to six enrollments in the fall and spring semesters. As in the past, multiple enrollment students will still need access to local assistance.
Second, MTDA is prepared to assist schools that need emergency services to fill in gaps created by teacher shortages. Our staff has prepared a detailed toolkit (http://mtda.link/fullprogram) with specific action steps to help manage communication and expectations based on our experience and national best practices. Should you need assistance in this way, please contact MTDA’s support desk (support@mtda.org) to schedule a consultation call as soon as you suspect you might need assistance.
Third, MTDA’s award-winning EdReady Montana program remains a robust option for schools looking to adopt tools that drive placement, personalization, and competency assessment in mathematics and English. EdReady remains free due to generous support from the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation. Contact the help desk (support@mtda.org) to set up a consultation call or professional development to implement EdReady today!
MTDA staff is at your service to assist with implementing our services and consult on distance learning theory or best practices. Contact us today!
Best wishes for a great school year!
Jason Neiffer, Ed.D.
Executive Director
Montana Digital Academy
jason@mtda.org
406-203-1812
Good afternoon from MTDA offices in Missoula!
MTDA enrollment is open; however, there are certain instances in GeniusSIS where a student is limited from enrolling without cause. We are working on resolving the issue.
In the meantime, please review our released briefing documents regarding the Spring 2021 program.
Good day from MTDA offices at the University of Montana in Missoula.
MTDA continues to work on Spring 2021 planning finances and logistics and is preparing to open enrollment on or before Wednesday, December 2, 2020. We will send out an email over our site facilitator announcement list when ready.
We do ask any school that plans to utilize MTDA’s program in a different manner (more enrollments, less enrollments, change in local enrollment philosophy) than Fall 2020 to drop a quick like to the support desk (support [at] montanadigitalacademy.org) and let us know. If need be, we would appreciate the ability to connect on a brief conference or consultation call.
In the meantime, if you have questions, please reach out to us via the support desk!
Hello from MTDA central offices in Missoula!
Per our academic calendars, MTDA academic programs will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2020, and Monday, July 6, 2020, for the Independence Day weekend.
For our original credit programs, this means that teachers might not be reachable via email or other means. Online classrooms will remain open.
For our credit recovery programs, there will be no live grading service either Friday, July 3, or Monday, July 6.
Our help desk services will be lightly monitored for emergencies throughout the weekend, and our office staff will be available for service on Monday, July 6, 2020.
Have a great Independence Day weekend!
The Spring 2020 High School Original Credit initial course request deadline has passed and we have sectioned off courses and assigned teachers. Enrollment remains open for Spring 2020 with remaining course capacity. The majority of our courses have additional capacity for enrollment. You can see an always-updated list of available courses by clicking on our live course availability list: here.
For the handful of courses that have hit capacity, that course will no longer appear for enrollment in GeniusSIS. We don’t have a means of keeping a waitlist, however, we will process any drop we receive at 9:59 am each weekday so that you can check for open slots at 10:00 am each morning, first come, first served.
Please don’t hesitate to contact our staff if you have any questions!
Enrollment will remain open for high school original credit classes until Friday, January 24, 2020, with the exception of classes that fill. At this point, we have room in the vast majority of courses, however, we strongly advise that you enroll before classes start on Tuesday, if possible, for the best likelihood of a good student outcome.
Hello from MTDA offices in Missoula!
Per our academic calendars, MTDA will be closed October 17-18, 2019, for the statewide professional development and teacher conference week. Closed means that:
Thank you!