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Co-Assessment
In Linked or Paired Courses, joint assignments are generally graded separately, although other faculty may offer comments. In Learning Clusters, faculty often grade assignments together, each offering expertise in a different discipline. In Coordinated Studies, all assignments are graded by all faculty. Students receive one grade for the entire group of courses.

Co-Teaching
In Linked or Paired Courses, which are two discrete courses with some joint assignments or activities, there is generally no team teaching. Occasionally, faculty may do presentations or "guest appearances" in each others' classes. In Coordinated Studies, all faculty teach together all the time.

Co-Learning
These may range from one joint paper or assignment to completely integrated activities. When activities are merged, it may be difficult to distinguish to which "course" an assignment is associated--it will have components of all courses imbedded within it.

Co-Enrollment
In some types of learning communities, students are not required (nor expected) to be enrolled in all linked courses. For instance, students in an English 101 class who write an English paper on politics (as students in a political science course also do) are not required to be enrolled in the political science course (and those students are not required to be enrolled in the English course). Other times, students co-enrolled represent a subset of a larger, in-place course (such as in Freshman Interest Groups). In some models, such as Coordinated Studies, all students are required to be co-enrolled in all linked courses.

Co-Planning
As with all components of Integrated Learning Communities, the degree of Co-Planning varies according to the model and degree of integration. Co-Planning may consist of faculty discussing the linking of one assignment in separate courses. On the other extreme, faculty may jointly create a Coordinated Studies program, in which they co-plan, co-teach, and co-assess.