When your child takes an audited class at a public or private school, the class technically doesn’t earn any credit from the school. You many be asking yourself, “Why even take a class that doesn’t earn credits?” Here are a few good reasons.
But, probably the most important reason:
5. YOU CAN GIVE YOUR STUDENT CREDIT! – If they put in the work and the hours, that is worth a high school credit, even if they technically don’t earn a credit from the institution. Audited classes can give all the benefits of dual enrollment or concurrent enrollment classes without the cost or the pressure. As homeschoolers we can grant credit where it is earned, regardless of audit status.
Your class title might be LHS: Religion and Worldview.
If they call it a “semester class” then it’s a 1/2 credit class.
If the class is in session about 5 days a week all year, then it is a 1 credit class.
When you are taking a school class for credit, then you must use the grade they provide. Their B is the B you put on your homeschool transcript by that class. But if you are simply attending the class without receiving credit, or just auditing the class, then you won’t receive a grade from the school. In that case, you can choose to put “AU” for audited, in place of the grade and the credit. If you do that, then clarify what the acronym means, and at the bottom of the transcript write “AU indicated classes take Lutheran High School for audit. No grade or credit given.”
