Course Planning & Textbooks

We are here to help you navigate the resources and opportunities available to you as a CCP student.

From your first semester through graduation, your CCP advising team provides support as you:

• Identify and Map your Pathway – We’ll help you build a plan to reach your destination, and provide guidelines to select courses.
• Learn your NCSC Student Software Platforms – You have new tools to learn for course registration (MyNC), course participation (Canvas), and your communication with the college (Microsoft 365 – Outlook for your NC Student email)
• Prepare for Class & Persist through Challenges – Utilize self-management tools & college-provided resources to ease your adjustment into college coursework and the responsibilities that come with it. We want you to get the most out of your time and effort in CCP, and will share tools to help you do so (accountability, self-advocacy, time management, college transfer planning, etc.).

We want to learn about you! What’s important in your life now? How we can help you support that? What careers sound interesting? What do you know so far about the path to those careers?

• Tell us about your world (interests, activities, work, etc.)
• What outcomes would you like to achieve through CCP?
• What helps you do your best?
• When do you feel most challenged?
• How many college credits did your counselor advise you can take this year?

While CCP students can take a variety of courses, we also encourage you to begin thinking in terms of pathways.

Students are asked to identify a pathway in their second term in CCP. Identifying a pathway does not restrict the courses you can take in CCP. A Pathway is informed guidance to help you identify courses that align with Ohio’s Transfer Credit Programs.

Pathway Starter: What are you considering doing after high school? How might this steer course selections in CCP?

• Career Coach
  • Unsure about a career path? Career Coach explores connections between your interests and possible careers.
  • Career goal identified? Confirm how it aligns with your salary needs and values on Career Coach.
  • Take the Career Toolkit Survey (6 or 60 Qs) and get immediate results on career types with salary and demand.
• Degree & Transfer Pathways – Where do you want to go? What profession do you want to pursue?
  • Share this with us so we can help you work through course options to get you there.
  • Unsure? Answer a few questions here with the Career Coach tool for a few ideas to get you started.
• Transfer Credit Ohio – Ohio toolkit to inform your transfer plan.
  • Planning on your Bachelor degree? Ohio Transfer 36, TAG, CTAG and Ohio’s Guaranteed Transfer Pathways are part of Ohio’s transfer credit toolkit.
• Career & Technical Education – Articulation Agreements
  • Labs from partnering Career Centers could also help you earn college credits with NCSC, and help you qualify for TFS!
• Placement Test Scores/Prerequisites for CCP Courses (PDF)
  • Many CCP courses can be taken without taking the ACT or ACCUPLACER.
  • However, college English, Math, and some Science courses require advanced placement testing for permission to register
• NCSC’s Level 1 Courses
  • The first 15 college credits a CCP student takes are Level 1 courses.
• NCSC Catalog & Student Handbook
  • Comprehensive course and policy information.
• NCSC Course Search  
  • Course offerings by semester and location.

     *Students in College-Now Engineering, Business, & Sci-Med: refer to your program advisor’s instructions.

• Courses may use FREE course materials called OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. If OER, no action required.
• Courses may use Published Textbooks or Software (w/ ISBN#) that need ordered. *If this, you have steps to complete.

• Ordering instructions are specific to CCP funding and secondary school type (public, nonpublic, or a home school).
• Review the complete instructions:

Go to the eCampus, NCSC’s  Bookstore to:

• Confirm the Required Course Materials
• Access your Digital Bookshelf