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The Red Hat Academy curriculum is designed especially for credit curriculum and workforce development/continuing education programs in high schools, higher education institutions (2-year, 4-year, vocational and technical) and economic development organizations worldwide.
Red Hat Academy combines all essential elements for the successful start-up and sustainable delivery of Red Hat Linux and open source teaching and learning:
Red Hat Academy is offered as a 12 month subscription fee per campus for unlimited enrollment. We also offer multi-campus subscriptions that reduce the per campus fee. Annual subscriptions are provided for high schools, post-secondary degree programs, post-secondary non-degree programs, all-campus programs, and multiple campus programs. Please see Pricing for details.
The only other possible fee is the teacher's certification. If the teacher is already RHCT or RHCE certified, there are no teacher training fees. For those who need to get certified, the fee could be as low as the exam only or up to optional open enrollment classes to prepare for the exam. Please see Pricing for details.
Please refer to Academic Curriculum
Yes, our model is to develop and offer a selection of courses so you can customize your Academy program each year to properly serve your students and community.
Your school may offer the curriculum in the program of your choice and in multiple programs at multiple locations simultaneously. For example, a college may offer the curriculum as semester courses for a degree program within the Computer Information Services division while the Continuing Education division may be simultaneously offering the curriculum as evening and weekend classes for adult learners in the community.
Your school may schedule the courses as often as you wish during the term of the Agreement as long as the course workbooks are taught sequentially. The minimum timeframe a course can be delivered and completed by your enrolled students is 8 weeks per course. Any length offered per course longer than 8 weeks is at your discretion.
That is up to you. Each course of study consists of multiple workbooks which must be taught sequentially. As long as each course is taught and completed in no less than 8 weeks, you can determine the number of contact hours per week you prefer to teach.
Yes. You can print one copy for each student who is taking a Red Hat Academy course.
Every instructor you select to teach this curriculum must be at least RHCT certified prior to the beginning of the class.
The RHCT and RHCT exam preparation classes posted on our web site are provided in a short format sequence (4 & 5 days per class) either at one of our U.S. facilities or international training facilities. For U.S. schools, please refer to our web site at www.redhat.com/training/rhce/courses under "Course Finder" for a date and time convenient for you. For International schools, please refer to www.europe.redhat.com/training/rhce.
Once the Service Agreement is signed, you will provide Red Hat a list of teachers you have assigned to teach the courses. Those teachers will then have immediate access to the entire online curriculum via a username/password. They can access the curriculum as often as they wish to begin developing their class or prepare for their own certification. They will also be provided a Teacher Workbook with outlines and suggestions. Red Hat will also provide communication support directly with teachers throughout the year for any curriculum or teaching-related assistance.
Yes. The Service Agreement is signed with the legal entity. As long as the multiple campuses fall within the legal definition of the institution as a whole, one Agreement will cover the Academy license for as many campuses as you wish; so, one fee structure covers multiple campus sites.
Classroom Server (Teacher Workstation) & Student Workstation:
Please refer to Infrastructure Requirements.(PDF)
LAN:
The following networking configuration will maximize the instructor's control
of the classroom environment and minimize the impact of the classroom on
your local networking infrastructure:
The students' workstations and Classroom Server are all connected by an isolated Ethernet network which is assigned a private IP block, such as 192.169.0.0/255.255.255.0. The Classroom Server is dual horned, with the second interface (NIC) configured to your local networking requirements. The Classroom Server acts as the default gateway for the students' workstations and masquerades (using NAT) routed connections to the upstream subnet. Note that the entire classroom subnet appears to the local network infrastructure as a single host, namely the external interface of the classroom server. This configuration also adds to the overall classroom security because all connections between the student workstations and the outside world must be initiated from the student workstation.
Any further technical questions may be sent to academy-admin@redhat.com.
The academy.redhat.com website hosts almost all aspects of the Red Hat Academy program. From the website, instructors can enable course elements (such as Workbook Lessons and Tests) and monitor student performance. Students view the curriculum, including all lessons, lesson activities, lesson review questions and workbook assessments from the website as well.
The Academy is designed to provide you the flexibility to offer the curriculum in any format or format combination you prefer. The Academy lends itself very well in any instructor-led, self-paced, and/or distance learning design.
A copy of the Academy curriculum will be added to the instructor's workstation (Classroom Server); however, interactive elements will not be available because they are only available at academy.redhat.com.
Yes. You will need a RHCE individual, trained as an RHAX administrator, in order to offer and facilitate the RHCT exam for all students (and teachers) at your school. The RHCT exam will be available for any students from your entire community who enroll and complete at least one course in the Academy curriculum at your school.
The RHCE/RHAX does not have to employed by the school. You may contract out for this service.
Becoming a Testing Center may provide you a way to attract and enroll more students who can learn AND test for the exam right ther on your campus. Any Academy-enrolled student can take take the exam. You can schedule the exam as often as you wish. Red Hat charges the school USD$150 for each student taking the RHCT exam - the school may charge the student between $0 and $349 for the exam. International schools will have a different exam fee rate.
Red Hat provides all of the certification and grading process for you - grading, notification to the participants (within about 3 business days) of pass or fail, issuing and sending certification documents to the students, creating certification records and much more. The RHCT exam can be administered by your RHCE administrator on the same networked classroom equipment used to run the Red Hat Academy curriculum.
The certification exam consists of two parts conducted in a half-day session. Section I of the exam consists of a four-problem troubleshooting exercises and lasts one hour. Section II consists of a two hour installation and configuration exercises. Both sections of the exam are performance-based, meaning that candidates must perform tasks on a live system, rather than answering multiple-choice questions.
RHCT certification indicates that the person has passed a realistic performance-based lab exam that tests his/her ability to: install and configure Red Hat Linux; understand limitations of hardware; configure basic networking and file systems for a single system attached to a network; configure the X Window System; perform essential Red Hat Linux system administration; configure basic host security, set up client-side networking services required to attach to a production network, and carry out basic diagnostics and troubleshooting.
The readiness objective of RHCT is to assure a minimum level of systems administration skills so that a person is ready from a technical point of view for professional responsibilities in installing, configuring, attaching, and supporting Red Hat Linux systems on an existing production network.
Yes, as long as the program is marketed under the program guidelines as described. One of our objectives is for your school to offer the Academy in a way that can help you fill as many seats and serve as many students as you wish.