Law Shelf courses are completely free! You only pay if you want to take the final, proctored exam. The exam costs $35 and is required if you want college credit for the course. If you don’t take the exam or your target college won’t award college credit, you can still award high school credit on your homeschool transcript.
Law Shelf
BOGO deal exclusive for HS4CC families! Interested students should email lawshelf@nationalparalegal.edu and provide the code: HS4CC
Law Shelf courses are completely free! You only pay if you want to take the final, proctored exam. The exam costs $35 and is required if you want college credit for the course. If you don’t take the exam, you can still award high school credit on your homeschool transcript.
Using our code gets you TWO classes for $35
(the classes are actually $0 free, so the payment is only for those who want college credit. Currently, it costs $35 per college credit exam attempted, this gets you two exams for $35)
HS4CC does NOT receive any kind of financial compensation from this deal – this is strictly them loving what we’re doing here and being generous.
These credits will work at any of the 7 partner colleges, but of the Big 3 you can use them at Excelsior and TESU.
There is no age restriction, no application, no transcript, no prerequisites.
Law Shelf is worth college credit because of their evaluation through NCCRS. Acceptance of NCCRS credit, in general, is limited and is really only a good idea when you’re using one of the company’s partner colleges. Law Shelf has seven partners (07/2022) all regionally accredited (the gold standard) making this small list all good choices.
Partner Colleges
- Excelsior College (NY) Equivalency List
- Thomas Edison State University (NJ) Equivalency List TBA
- Purdue Global (IN) Equivalency List
- University of Maryland Global (MD) Equivalency List
- Troy University (AL) Equivalency List TBA
- American InterContinental (TX/GA) Equivalency List
- DeVry (IL) Equivalency List
College Course List (Free & $35 proctor fee)
Several of the courses are evaluated as “upper level” but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get upper level credit. Check each partner college’s equivalencies listed to learn exactly what these credits will transfer in as. If the partner doesn’t provide a list, you may want to email the partner college’s Registrar for clarity.
- ACC-101: Basics of Accounting
- BUS-101: Business Organizations
- BUS-111: Basics of Bankruptcy Law
- FIN-201: Corporate Finance Law
- CRM-101: Basics of Criminal Law
- CRM-102: Search and Seizure
- CRM-201: White-Collar Crime
- ADR-301: Alternative Dispute Resolution
- LIT-101: Basics of Civil Litigation
- LIT-301: Discovery in Civil Litigation
- LIT-401: E-Discovery
- LIT-302: Evidence
- COM-211: Consumer Protection
- COM-201: Commercial Payments
- COM-303: Cyber Law
- COM-304: E-Commerce Regulation
- COM-302: Insurance Law
- COM-401: Secured Transactions
- CON-101: Basics of Contract Law
- COM-301: Sales of Goods
- ELD-501: ERISA and Pension Plans
- ELD-302: The Probate Process
- ELD-502: Trusts and Estates
- ELD-301: Wills and Testamentary Trusts
- ELD-401: Social Security and Medicare Law
- EMP-301: Protections for Employees
- EMP-202: Workers’ Compensation
- EMP-201: Labor Relations
- EMP-101: Employment and Employment Benefits
- DRL-201: Family Support and Child Custody Law
- GOV-301: Administrative Law
- GOV-202: Basics of Environmental Law
- GOV-203: Basics of Immigration Law
- GOV-102: Basics of Legal Ethics
- GOV-201: Civil Rights Law
- GOV-204: First Amendment Law
- IPL-401: Patent Law
- IPL-402: Trademarks
- IPL-201: Copyright Law
- HLT-201: Health Insurance Law
- HLT-202: Health Records and Privacy
- HLT-203: Legal Considerations in Drug Development
- RPL-301: Oil, Gas and Mineral Rights
- RPL-101: Law of Real Estate Transactions and Mortgages
- TAX-101: Basics of Federal Income Taxation
- TOR-301: Intentional and Negligence Torts
- TOR-501: Medical Malpractice
- TOR-502: Product Liability Law
- TOR-302: Mass Torts
Proctored Exam
A Law Shelf course requires passing a final exam in order to earn college credit. The final exam is open book and requires a proctor fee of $35. Unlike a lot of remote proctoring, these exams are NOT proctored via video webcam, they are instead proctored using Voice Proctor.
You’ll need to set up your Voice Proctor account at least one day before you want to take the exam. This process and link is integrated into your Law Shelf course.
From Voice Proctor’s website “Before the student can take exams using the Voice Proctor™ system, the student registers his/her voice print on the Voice Proctor™ servers using the Voice Proctor™ website in conjunction with a standard telephone. Schools have the option to have the initial voice print registration call made in front of a webcam and to have the student display a government-issued ID during the call-in session. The webcam session can be recorded and stored by Voice Proctor™ and is accessible to the school’s records department at any time. The initial call is the only time a webcam is used within the Voice Proctor™ testing environment.
Voice Proctor™ uses a standard telephone to record voice responses of students at random points during exams by asking them to verbally explain answers given to previous questions. These responses are stored on the Voice Proctor™ servers and can easily be compared with an original voice print that the student gave when he/she signed in to the Voice Proctor™ system for the first time.”
For any given exam, schools have the OPTION of setting how many proctored events will occur and for which students. Proctored events can take 4 different forms:
- The system calls the student at the beginning of the exam and asks the student to read a passage that appears on the screen.
- The system calls the student at a random point during the exam and asks the student to verbally answer a previously answered exam question.
- The system calls the student at a random point during the exam and asks the student to verbally explain why a given choice on a previously answered multiple choice question is incorrect.
- The system calls the student at a random point during the exam and asks the student to verbally answer a “challenge question” which is a derivative of a previously answered question using altered fact patterns.
NON-College Course List (Free)
Courses on this list are entirely free (no proctored exam) and result in a digital badge that you can display on your social media profile. You can also use these courses for high school credit.
- Business Operating Agreements
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Nonprofit Organizations Law
- Securities Regulation
- Stocks and Stock Transfers
- Debtor and Creditor Law
- Criminal Sentencing and Appeals
- Counterterrorism Law and Policy
- Negotiating and Drafting Contracts
- Social Security
- Employment and Employee Benefits
- Leaving a Job
- Alimony and Child Support
- Child Custody and Visitation
- Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of Religion
- Education Law: Responsibilities and Protections
- Acquiring Copyright Protection
- Copyright Enforcement and Defenses
- Medicare
- Fair Housing Act
- Landlord-Tenant Law
- Real Estate Transactions
- Residential Mortgages
- Land Use and Zoning
- State and Local Taxation
- Vicarious Liability (Liability for the Torts of Others)
