Distance Learning Fees

The Office of Teaching and Technology Support Services is responsible for approving and overseeing of the university's distance learning fees. The process for approving unit/departmental-level distance learning course fees begins before the schedule of courses opening each semester. The specific dates for this process are sent to all college deans via an administrative memo. 

The amount of the distance learning course fee must not exceed the additional costs of the services provided which are attributable to the development and delivery of state-funded courses that comply with the 80% rule. Units seeking to assess a departmental level distance learning fee per Florida Statute 1009.24 (17) should create a "Distance Learning Fee" request in the myUFL system.

Distance Learning Fees Guide (PDF)

Guidelines 

All requests for the distance learning course fee must pass the test of "additional costs of the service provided which are attributable to the development and delivery of the distance learning course" in this respect: 

• Marginal costs at the course level, not the program level
• Development and delivery, not for demand analysis and creation
• The basic support costs for the students in such courses are paid through the tuition charge and other student fees 

All expenditures of distance learning course fees must be for the purposes associated with this list of fee items: 

• Course production
• IT support costs
• Online proctoring 

* Special topics course numbers are not eligible to charge departmental/unit distance learning course fees. 

Once the distance learning fee request has been approved by the college-level designee, the request is forwarded to the Office of the Associate Provost for Teaching and Technology for final review and approval, denial, or returned for more information. Once approved, the unit offering the course tags sections of courses approved for the purpose of assessing the distance learning fee. 

All courses/sections authorized to assess a distance learning fee will be subject to an end-of-semester review of costs incurred and fees collected. The enabling regulation does not permit an above-cost residual.