Palo Alto University students

For Palo Alto University's M.A. in Counseling, Accrue adds a checklist, the 2026-27 term dates, the activity names your timesheet uses, and an export for Experiential Learning Cloud (ELC). They follow the program's 2026-27 Practicum and Internship Manual, ELC Student Manual, academic calendar, and practicum orientation. Where the program's current instructions differ, follow the program.

What Accrue sets up

Choose Palo Alto University's program during setup, or later on your path in Settings. Your ledgers come from your path like any other program's. The program-specific parts are the checklist, the term dates behind its due dates, the activity names, and the ELC export described below.

The checklist

The Palo Alto University checklist appears in Tasks. Items arrive as your stage changes, and term items reopen each term.

Before placement: upload your unofficial transcript, submit the practicum application, sign the student placement agreement, send your supervisor their forms, and keep your liability insurance in force. The insurance is through the ACA and is uploaded again each term.
Every week: your hour log, signed by your site supervisor and then your faculty supervisor.
By the end of week 3 each term: in ELC, confirm your supervisor's contact details, upload their current license, your liability insurance, and a screenshot of your ELC profile, evaluate the site placement process, and sign a supervision agreement with each supervisor.
Later in the term: send your supervisor the three evaluation forms from ELC by the end of week 7 (earlier in the shorter summer term), complete your own evaluations, evaluate your site in the last week, finish the hours check-in, and register for the next term.
Practicum to internship: the advancement form, due once you reach 100 hours with 40 direct. The program does not count internship hours until your faculty supervisor approves it.
Internship: the telehealth training certificate each term, the case conceptualization paper from your second internship term, and, in the term you finish, your exit interview and final hour logs and hours check-in.
When a site or supervision ends: tell the program you are leaving the site, and get an in-state experience verification from each supervisor while they are still reachable.

Some items are prerequisites the program sets before it accepts hours, such as the placement agreement. Their detail page says hours may not be accepted while they are open. Accrue still records and counts those hours; acceptance is the program's decision. If an item does not apply to you, choose Not required for me.

Term dates

Due dates such as the end of week 3 and week 7 come from the 2026-27 academic calendar: Fall 2026 runs September 10 to December 9, 2026; Winter 2027, January 4 to March 19; Spring 2027, March 29 to June 11; and Summer 2027, June 21 to August 20. Dates for later terms are left unset until a newer calendar is added, rather than guessed.

Activity names

Palo Alto University programs start with the activity names the timesheet uses: Counseling; Supervision, Individual/Triadic; Supervision, Group; Client Centered Advocacy; Testing & Reporting; Training & Education; Administrative Duties; Hours in Class; and Faculty Supervisor Approved Activity. To return to them after editing your list, open Settings, then Activities, and reset to the Palo Alto University set. See Edit the activity list.

Export for Experiential Learning Cloud

Open Settings and turn on ELC format under Spreadsheet export. Export then writes one row per date, site, and supervisor, with a column for each Palo Alto University timesheet category in decimal hours. Copy adds instructions for entering each category with the circled plus button in ELC. Check the site and supervisor in every ELC entry, especially for class time.

Reported hours for the program default to quarter hours rounded down, while hours in class stay exact. Check your program's rule before changing the rounding. Your saved minutes and ledger totals do not change. The comprehensive summary gains a table of the reported timesheet totals. Leave ELC format off unless you file into ELC.

What stays the program's decision

A checked item in Accrue records that you did it. It does not show that the program received, approved, or accepted anything. Submissions in ELC and signatures on program forms are separate steps. For questions about program policy, ask your faculty supervisor or the clinical training team.