Imagine Edgenuity: A Comprehensive Guide for Teachers

Introduction

Imagine Edgenuity is a digital courseware platform designed for students in grades 6-12. It delivers a broad digital curriculum with robust customization and reporting features. The platform aims to provide personalized learning pathways to accelerate student achievement and improve academic outcomes. While some may find its interface a bit dated, its depth of content and reliable reporting make it a strong choice for schools seeking effective online learning solutions.

What is Imagine Edgenuity?

Imagine Edgenuity is a digital-first courseware platform tailored for middle and high school students (grades 6-12). It offers a flexible online curriculum primarily for initial credit, credit recovery, and supplemental instruction. The platform empowers educators with robust course customization tools to tailor lessons for diverse learners and uses data-driven reporting to monitor student progress effectively.

Key Features and Benefits

Course Customization

Imagine Edgenuity provides educators with powerful tools to customize courses to meet the diverse needs of their students. This includes tailoring lessons for at-risk learners and those seeking acceleration.

Data-Driven Reporting

The platform offers robust, data-driven reporting to monitor student progress effectively. This allows educators to review student performance and progress and adjust courses as needed.

Flexible Curriculum

Imagine Edgenuity offers a flexible online curriculum suitable for initial credit, credit recovery, and supplemental instruction. This flexibility allows schools and districts to provide personalized learning pathways for students.

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Integration Capabilities

The software supports integration with multiple systems and platforms, such as Clever, ClassLink, and Genius SIS.

Imagine Edgenuity for Teachers: A Detailed Look

Communication and Interaction with Students

Teachers can utilize various tools within and outside the Edgenuity platform to maintain regular communication and interaction with students.

Google Classroom Integration: Every class can be connected to a Google Classroom where teachers can interact with students, post additional supplementary materials, and create opportunities for students to engage in discourse with each other. Teachers will need to create these spaces for each of their rostered sections, if they do not have them already.
Supplementary Resources: For elective classes, teachers can post supplementary resources for students to access via Google Classroom.
Google Hangouts Meet: Teachers can utilize Google Hangouts Meet for office hours and individual student check-ins.
Daily Office Hours: Schools can determine daily office hours for students, providing opportunities for interaction.
Communication Expectations: Teachers can post expectations for students in Google Classroom.
Additional Instructional Materials: Teachers can post additional instructional materials for students and parents: 6-8, 9-12.
Weekly Communication with Families: Teachers can update all parents/guardians once a week and send one initial communication to parents/guardians.
Monitoring Student Progress: Teachers can monitor and communicate student progress to parents.

Effective Feedback Strategies

Feedback is crucial in online learning environments. Teachers should strive to provide feedback that is specific, timely, and actionable.

During Student Check-in Meetings: Feedback needs to follow norms for effective feedback: specific, timely, and actionable.
Importance of Feedback: Feedback is even more important in online spaces because they lack teacher, peer, and environmental feedback.
Grading Function in Edgenuity: The grading function in Edgenuity will remain turned on to serve as an additional layer of feedback for students.

Facilitating Collaboration

Teachers can provide opportunities for students to collaborate using various tools.

Google Hangouts or Meet: Teachers can provide opportunities for students to collaborate via Google Hangouts or Meet.
Question Discussion Feature in Classroom: Teachers can utilize the Question discussion feature in Classroom.

Holding Office Hours

Regular office hours provide students an opportunity to ask questions, get feedback, and check-in with the teacher.

Google Hangout: For a quick 1:1 text chat with video as an option, teachers can use Google Hangout with their student.
Google Meet: For a set time meeting with groups of students, teachers can set up a Google Meet and link it in their Google Classroom.

Accessibility Considerations

Teachers should be mindful of accessibility considerations when using online platforms.

Closed Captioning: Teachers can ask students to turn on the closed captioning function in Google Meet.

Encouraging Student Engagement

Teachers can encourage student engagement by providing a variety of resources and opportunities for interaction.

Encouraging Reading: Teachers can encourage students to read at least 30 minutes daily.
APS eBook Library: Students can check out and read/listen to an eBook through the APS eBook library called Sora.

Supporting English Language Learners

Teachers can utilize various supports for English Language Learners.

Explicit Language Support: The links below are supports for explicit language support as well as secondary ELD teachers.

Academic Integrity and Remote Learning Code of Conduct

It is essential to maintain academic integrity in a remote learning environment. Aurora Public Schools has outlined a Remote Learning Code of Conduct that students are expected to adhere to. Key points include:

Original Work: Students will not submit work completed by or copied from another person or the Internet.
Independent Work: Students will work independently on all assignments.
Proper Citation: Students will properly punctuate and cite all ideas from others they wish to use to support their own ideas.
Seeking Help: Students will contact their teachers for help in avoiding plagiarism.
Active Participation: Students will actively participate in all online platforms while honoring their classmates’ voices, experiences, and situations.
Virtual Classroom Expectations: Students will abide by the virtual classroom expectations set by the teacher.
Appropriate Language and Material: Students will refrain from using inappropriate, offensive, or abusive language in their speech, writing, or images they share on their electronic device.
Cyberbullying: Students will not be involved in cyberbullying.
Approved Internet Sites: Students will only visit school approved internet sites.
Personal Information: Students will not give out their personal information to anyone.
Password Protection: Students will not share the passwords or links that are provided for Google Classroom, Google Meet, or Google Hangouts, unless they have permission from their teacher to do so.
Posting Educational Materials: Students will not post any educational materials including class videos, documents, and other multimedia to social media without permission from their teacher.

Edgenuity Courses

Course Loading

In cases where students are being placed in Edgenuity courses, they are being loaded by ROSTER, not by grade level. It will be based on the courses in which they are currently enrolled.

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Course Availability

Juniors and Seniors: Courses with an Edgenuity match are available for juniors and seniors.
Freshmen and Sophomores: Freshmen and Sophomores are completing core classes via Edgenuity.

Grading and Assessment

Grade Posting

For grade 9-10 only: Enter final grades into Infinite Campus. Please note: Grades 6-8 will not post grades in Infinite Campus for the duration of remote learning.

Imagine Edgenuity Pricing

Imagine Edgenuity offers customized pricing plans, catering to unique requirements of different educational institutions. Interested parties can request a personalized Imagine Edgenuity pricing plan.

Who is Imagine Edgenuity For?

The platform is designed for the education sector, specifically grades 6-12. It is an ideal fit for schools and districts seeking a flexible and data-centric solution for credit recovery, alternative education, and supplemental instruction.

Is Imagine Edgenuity Right For You?

Imagine Edgenuity is an ideal fit for schools and districts seeking a flexible and data-centric solution for credit recovery, alternative education, and supplemental instruction for grades 6-12. Its standout feature is the extensive course library combined with powerful customization tools that allow educators to support diverse student needs, from at-risk learners to those seeking acceleration.

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