{"id":217432,"date":"2026-01-16T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/?p=217432"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:02:14","slug":"academic-engagement-verification-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/2026\/01\/16\/academic-engagement-verification-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Engagement Verification Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Engagement verification is required for all students, each term, and can be accessed through <a href=\"http:\/\/montclair.instructure.com\/\"><strong>Canvas<\/strong><\/a>. Whether or not your professor uses their Canvas course, you will enter the Canvas course to perform the needed action for each of your spring classes.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Complete Verification<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/montclair.instructure.com\/\"><strong>Log into Canvas.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Under &#8220;assignments&#8221; in the given Canvas course, please select &#8220;Academic Engagement.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The non-graded assignment simply asks you to describe what you expect to learn from the class.<\/li>\n<li>Complete the free form question by no later than one week after your class begins.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Have Financial Aid?<\/h3>\n<p>For students receiving Financial Aid, completing this assignment for ALL of your courses ensures that your Financial Aid will be processed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your financial aid will not be processed until this is complete.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Questions?<\/h2>\n<p>For any questions, please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/red-hawk-central\/contact\/\"><strong>Red Hawk Central<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your financial aid will not be processed until this is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":217352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,38,36,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-deadlines","category-featured-news","category-red-hawk-central","category-red-hawk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217433,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217432\/revisions\/217433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}