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District faculty who normally teach the course for which an individual seeks CPL, in conjunction with the corresponding department chair, retain sole discretion to determine whether, in general:

• To consider requests for CPL for the course,
• Whether to award CPL to the individual for the course,
• The type(s) of assessment(s) that may be used,
• The content of the assessment(s).

The following methods of assessment may be used to award CPL:

• AP, IB, CLEP
• Joint Services Transcripts.
• Portfolios.
• Industry-recognized documentation.
• Other standardized exams.
• Satisfactory completion of approved noncredit course(s) with an equated credit course(s).
• Credit by satisfactory completion of an examination or assessment administered by the College faculty in lieu of completing a course listed in the college catalog.
• The faculty may accept an examination or assessment conducted by an institution other than College of the Canyons.

On an annual basis, the Office of Instruction will ask that department chairs transmit a list of courses for which a department will consider awarding CPL through an assessment(s) other than AP, CLEP, or IB.

To promote consistent, transparent, and equitable evaluation of an assessment submitted for CPL, each department must create and maintain in its files a rubric, evaluation instrument, or predefined standard, as appropriate for a given assessment, for each CPL-eligible course. The lack of such an instrument, however, shall not preclude an award of CPL in a particular case if equitable and appropriate.