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Anyone ever start an open enrollment group and can give me a summary of how it works?
Can the kids be at different levels?

We haven't started one but we're in one. Only k-7 math, algebra, and 2-6 language arts/writing are included, but within those courses, placement and progress are entirely individualized. The organizer sets the starting point, I assume, but as a parent I can adjust it in half-grade increments if the placement isn't right.

Maybe I should add that these are online-only courses with no human interactive component. The course gives a recorded lecture, then some problems to complete, then goes on to another lesson. The sessions are timed at 20 minutes, but each topic has a set number of problems (usually 5-15), so the progress rate varies wildly depending on how fast the student works that day and on whether they work extra sessions.

At first we felt there were too many of each problem type, so we requested the gifted setting from our organizer. Same material, less repetition.

Just FYI--we are in EPGY as non-open enrollment (as open enrollment was not open to us). However, I saw today that the policy for certain math courses has changed as of Oct. 1, 2012 so that a student no longer receives a Stanford transcript on completing the course--which was the stated reason why EPGY was recommended to us over other online math courses, and why we took it (instead, one now apparently receives a 'completion certificate'). The effect of this difference is unclear to me, because even with a transcript from Stanford, the student's institution could of course decide to accept or ignore it as they wished, but since that was why we chose EPGY I am disappointed and we may go forward with a different series.