How to Get PLA Credit: Experience

Apply your credit-by-experience to your degree or certificate program.

We work together in the PLA process:

  • You
  • Your Advisor
  • Your Department (Chair / Dean)
  • Your Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA)
  • Your campus Testing Services
  • District Academic Support Services Office

 

  1. You
  2. You
  3. Department (Chair / Dean) or Advisor
    • Verifies your eligibility
    • Reviews your PLA request and required documentation of experience based on the approved course list for CBE
    • Sends an email to your campus Testing Services to request PLA fee(s) to be posted to your account
  4. Testing Services
    • Posts PLA fee—as requested in Step 3—to your Student Account module in MyTCCTrack
  5. You
    • Pay PLA fee(s) through the Student Account module in MyTCCTrack
  6. Department (Chair / Dean) or Advisor
    • Initiates online PLA request
    • Attaches required documentation, including your fee receipt to show proof of payment
    • Forwards your PLA request to your campus VPAA for review
  7. VPAA
    • Reviews your PLA request
    • Forwards your PLA request to the District Academic Support Services Office
  8. District Academic Support Services Office
  9. You
    • Check My Progress in the Student Planning module of MyTCCTrack to confirm course(s) are posted

 

Questions?

Ask a PLA Contact on your campus

Email us: PLA@tccd.edu

Updated May 09, 2024