To request to offer a distance course, please submit a Course Request Form. The Course Request Form should be filled out in its entirety before it is returned to Extended Learning.

If the course will be offered via compressed video, please also download the Compressed Video Approval Form. The top portion of the Compressed Video Approval Form, as well as the list of distance sites, should be filled out and sent to the appropriate distance official.  The distance official will complete the form and return it to Extended Learning.

Returning an incomplete form delays the approval and scheduling process which in turn prevents students from enrolling in the course.

NOTE: Instructors assigned to teach extension courses who are not regular LSU employees must have administrative approval from the Graduate School to teach the assigned course.  Please be sure your academic department has submitted the Special Administrative Approval Form to the Graduate School in advance of the Course Request Form being sent to our office.

Submit a Course to the SREB Electronic Campus

Louisiana State University participates in the Electronic Campus of the Southern Regional Education Board.  If more than half of the delivery of your course is via electronic means, all relevant course information must be submitted here.  The information will be relayed by our office to the Electronic Campus to be listed on their website.  Our online form will allow you to save course information prior to submission as well as use the saved information to proceed with the submission of a distance Course Request Form if required (see below).

Faculty Compensation

Department chairs may request advance approval for course funding through the Division of Continuing Education by indicating this on the Course Request Form at the time that it is completed and submitted to the Extension Credit Programs Office. In order to allow ample time for consideration of approval for extra compensation, Course Request Forms must be submitted well in advance of the upcoming semester. Extra compensation may be requested for either regular LSU faculty members or adjunct faculty.

In addition to Division of Continuing Education approval, compensation is contingent upon attaining minimum enrollment levels. In certain circumstances, when it is a priority for departments to offer a particular course despite low enrollment, a reduced sliding compensation scale may be applied.

LSU faculty are compensated on an "add comp" basis and are paid four times during the regular semesters; twice for Summer A semester. Payment is included in regular LSU payroll checks.

Adjunct faculty that have been granted Special Administrative Approval by the Graduate School to teach at the graduate level will be contacted prior to the beginning of the semester and provided with payroll forms to complete and return to Extension Credit Programs. Timely and correct completion of personnel forms ensures that employment processing will not be delayed.

Request a Roster

If you are teaching a distance course and would like to request a copy of your class roster, need assistance with Blackboard, or notice students missing from your roster, please e-mail Extended Learning 

Many of the courses offered via compressed video to distance sites around the state may appeal to a wider audience of prospective students, both degree-seeking and non-degree seeking. If you are aware of any potential markets for your course(s), we’d be happy to work with you to reach those potential students. We have the capability to produce flyers, brochures, mail-outs, or any other sort of materials specially suited to your identified market.

In addition, if you have ideas for courses not currently offered that might appeal to people in the communities where compressed video classrooms are located, we’d love to work with you to make those courses available.