BYU Independent Study offers more than 470 accredited online self-paced courses that cover core graduation requirements, world languages, Advanced Placement (AP), career and technical education (CTE), music, and a wide variety of electives. Includes teacher support and up to two half-hour free weekly tutoring sessions per week through the BYU Student Success Center. Offers A-G courses.

See a full list of courses offered.

Price: Most courses: $205 per course per semester*
AP and World Languages: $320 per course per semester*
Order from Procurify catalog

*Prices subject to change.

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Ordering
Order in Procurify as a service. HST will recive email with next steps. Once steps are completed BYU will enroll student and send steps to login and access the course. Parent can request observer account from their HST.

How Student Will Access
Information will be emailed to teacher and student school email.

Who Corrects Student Work
All BYU courses are graded by a highly qualified teacher from BYU who oversees the course curriculum and assignments.

Work Samples

How to pull a work sample from the BYU observer app

  1. Log in and select your student
  2. Select Course
  3. Top Left Click on three lines
  4. Select Grades
  5. Select an assignment within the LP
  6. Print Screen of the first page (includes name and date)
  7. Select “Questions” tab and print at the top right.
  8. Merge both documents and complete six square.

Key Accessibility Features

Tests and quizzes are not timed- student is able to work at their own pace within the semester.

Language and literacy support
All BYU Independent Study courses provide language and literacy support to students—especially to English Language Learners and students with an IEP or 504 plan. Just click the Text-to-Speech button in any course to access these accessibility options:

  • Read aloud lesson text (even complex math equations)
  • Translate text from English to any of 68 languages
  • Click into a dictionary definition (text and illustrated)
  • Highlight passages or focus using screen masking

Other supports for students include: virtual labs, integrated math tools, guided notes, and interactive visuals.

What does the course look like?

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