High School Counselor Resources

Refer to the Aims Academic Calendar for important dates.

Fall Semester 2025

Oct 13-17 (M-F) - Midterm Week

Nov 5 (W) - Full-Term Course Withdrawal Deadline

Nov 26-30 (W-U) - Thanksgiving Holiday (College Closed)

Dec 12 (F) - Last Day of Fall Semester

Dec 12 (F) - Commencement

Have your students follow these instructions for registering for classes at Aims.

Students can follow these instructions for how to drop a course. 

Students can follow these instructions for how to withdraw from a course. 

Have your students follow the onboarding steps for new and returning students, below:

• New Students onboarding steps
• Continuing/Returning students onboarding steps

Your student will need to follow these steps to change their program of study.

Your students can add friends and family by approving third-party access to their account:

• Adding Third-Party Access
• Managing Third-Party Permissions

Your students can follow these instructions for how to find the academics app in Workday and view their current classes and grades. 
 

Your students will need to access and work within several key software platforms as students at Aims:

• Okta - Provides seamless, secure login to the online services and applications used at Aims.
  • For Okta assistance, students can contact the IT Help Desk or email okta@aims.edu.
• Workday - Online system that Aims uses to keep track of information where students can easily see classes and grades, register for classes, pay tuition, check financial aid, track progress toward graduation and communicate with academic advisor and instructors.
  • For Workday assistance, students can contact the IT Help Desk.
• D2L - Online learning platform by Brightspace, where all information related to student coursework is accessed.
  • For D2L assistance, students can check out tutorials and find links to Aims support on the Brightspace Community page.

The Concurrent Enrollment Program is primarily designed for school districts and charter schools. If your homeschool program runs through a school district such as Loveland LEAP or Options (Cherry Creek or Aurora Public), the student can participate through the district. The school district will review and approve/deny the student and pay tuition for approved courses. Be sure to review the district’s payment policies on the program, as they may only pay tuition, which leaves any course and college fees to the student/parent.

If you are not using a homeschool program through a district, then your student may still attend Aims. Tuition, fees, and books/materials are out-of-pocket in this case. Regardless of which homeschool program is used, the student may meet with our academic counselors for courses, degree plans, and registration. An application for admission will need to be submitted before meeting with an advisor and registering. If the student is under 16, some courses are restricted due to age; students 16 and over may register for any course they qualify for. 

If you have questions, contact the HS2Aims team or the High School Programs Office. 

To help your students succeed at Aims, be sure to share the Student Handbook—their one-stop-shop for information about college policies, student rights, academic standards and campus resources.

Students can explore all current course offerings in the High School Concurrent Enrollment Course Catalog. 

1. Have the student turn in all necessary paperwork to you and place them on the approved student list with the Aims High School Programs Office.
   1. Once the student is on that list, any hold on their account will be removed unless the student owes Aims money or is not in good academic standing.  
   2. Homeschooled students paying for courses on their own must complete all the onboarding steps in their Workday account to resolve holds before they can register.
2. Make sure the student has a current Aims application on file (if they are currently taking courses, their application is up-to-date).
3. Have the student set up and log in to their myAims student portal. If they need help with this, they can call the IT Help Desk at (970) 339-6380.
4. Have the student activate and use their @aims.edu email account when communicating with Aims staff or instructors.

Your students can visit Aims as a group for a 1.5-hour tour of the spaces, places and resources they can enjoy on campus. Contact Laura Flood to schedule a PTECH or Concurrent Enrollment tour or join a group tour. 

Laura Flood
laura.flood@aims.edu
970-378-3736 ext. 3736

The Concurrent Enrollment Expansion and Innovation (CEEI) Grant Program provides grants to partnering local education providers and institutions of higher education to expand and innovate concurrent enrollment opportunities to qualified students.

The Reisher Bridge Scholars Program provides individualized transfer and advising support, a scholarship of up to $3,000 and direct connections to Reisher-participating four-year institutions. If you have questions, please email peter.mcfeely@aims.edu.

To be eligible, students must be:

• A Colorado Resident
• Carrying a 3.0 GPA
• Pell Grant eligible
• Enrolled in a transferable AA or AS degree
• Looking to transfer to a 4-year program at a Colorado School
• Graduating from Aims in the Spring Semester
• Applying 1 year before their Aims graduation