Trouble finding online engineering courses in Canada

[chemengonline]

Hello!

I posted on a forum elsewhere about how I was struggling to figure out my life now that I'm out of an abusive relationship. As a result of the weird controlling aspect of it I wasn't able to make it to my exams in school and flunked out. I just barely got through a few courses before I got into that mess. Someone there linked me to this place and I'm so happy to find it! I'm hoping to find some online resources because I have 2 young children and no family around to help me babysit so I'm working freelance online to pay the bills and being able to do my education online while I'm taking care of the kids would be incredible. Freelance is barely cutting it and definitely wouldn't work if I had to pay for daycare as well. The university has daycare but even with the subsidized price it is too much unfortunately.

While I was still in the relationship I actually got a 2nd chance at everything because I explained the situation to the school but I was still enmeshed and in the fog of it so the same situation ended up playing out again. At this point they would likely not take me seriously (for good reason) if I tried to get another exception made. Totally my fault for sticking around, just wish I knew then what I did now. 

Due to the flunking issue when I apply to other universities I get automatically denied which I totally understand. In high school I had a 95%+ average but I would assume my average in university is somewhere around 50% which is quite depressing. Right now as far as I know the only option I really have (if I'm doing it online anyway) is to find courses online where I don't need a background check (like Athabasca), do well on them and transfer the credit to my old university. This will increase my average and take me off their "special student" status so I'll be able to get student loans again there and hopefully also bring my grades up enough that I can apply to other universities if I need to do so. 

I love process control. I'm looking to get a chemical engineering degree. I got started at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. The only courses I was able to complete were technical report writing, principles of chemistry, organic chemistry, linear algebra 1, and calc 1. 

Here are the required courses for chemical engineering at uOttawa: https://engineering.uottawa.ca/about/pro...mical-2018 
here's an image version as well just in case that website doesn't work: https://i.imgur.com/pMiz90a.png

I know there are quite a few courses there that seem to only exist at uOttawa which is fine, I'm more concerned with the bulk of them. The math, physics, programming, chemistry, etc. courses. If I can get those out of the way then hopefully my kids will be school aged by then and I would be able to go in person to take the remaining classes.

My main worry though is in Ontario, with our government student loans, if you get put on a repayment assistance plan (as I have been) and don't make payments on it for 5 years (as I have done, my income isn't considered high enough to have to repay anything monthly yet) then you cannot take any further loans out until you fully pay it off. Or at least that's what I understand from my panicked reading of the fine print. I'm on year 3 of this, so I'm worried that if I can't get my average high enough to receive student loans again within 2 years then I'll have to find a way to pay $40k+ through my own pocket. Would love to avoid that if at all possible because that would really drag things out.

It looks like I can do a few courses through Athabasca but not enough. I can't find a "full schedule" of 5 different courses to take there without retaking courses I have already done (which I am not opposed to for 1 or 2 that have lower grades). 


Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing or know any places where I could get started? 

Thank you so much. Looking forward to figuring my new life out!