Navigating the Edgenuity Student Experience: A Comprehensive Guide
Imagine Edgenuity provides a multifaceted learning environment for students, and understanding its features is crucial for maximizing its benefits. This article delves into various aspects of the Edgenuity student experience, from grade metrics and orientation videos to activity gating and teacher feedback. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview for students, educators, and administrators alike.
Understanding Grade Metrics
Edgenuity offers three distinct grade metrics that schools can choose to display on a student's homepage: Overall Grade, Actual Grade, and Relative Grade. The selection of which grade metric to prioritize lies with the District or School Administrators, emphasizing the importance of understanding the differences between these metrics.
- Overall Grade: This metric likely represents the student's cumulative performance across all activities and assignments in the course.
- Actual Grade: The actual grade probably reflects the raw score a student has achieved based on completed work, without considering any weighting or adjustments.
- Relative Grade: The relative grade may take into account the student's progress in relation to their peers or a predetermined benchmark, offering a comparative perspective.
Each school can select one primary grade metric to appear on the student’s Homepage. If desired, schools can also select additional grade metrics to display for students on the Course Report. This choice must be made at the school level and cannot be configured individually for different courses or students. By default, all schools will be set to display the Actual grade as primary and have no secondary grade metrics. If your school wishes to change the default, District or School Administrators will be able to do so. To aid in understanding, Edgenuity provides a video for each grade option, with the only difference being the grade metric displayed.
Orientation and Getting Started
To ensure a smooth onboarding experience, Edgenuity employs orientation videos. When the setting “Require Student to Watch Orientation Video” has been enabled on the student profile, the student will be required to watch two short videos. The first video by grade metric is presented when they log into Imagine Edgenuity for the first time. All students are shown the heritage version.
For EdgeEX courses, the "Getting Started" lesson can be added to any course to guide students through the EdgeEX Student Experience Orientation. For steps on how to do this, reference EdgeEX - Customizing Courses: Adding a lesson to a course, section, or enrollment.
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Staying on Top of Progress
The student experience offers a few different ways to help students stay on top of their progress. The Course Map provides the due dates for each activity. If an activity is overdue, then an indicator appears next to that activity.
Locating Teacher Feedback
Teacher feedback is a vital component of the learning process. Once a student lands on the Course Map, an alert indicating "You have feedback" is clearly visible at the top. This ensures students are promptly notified of any feedback provided by their teachers.
Activity Gating
Imagine Edgenuity employs a gating mechanism to ensure students engage with the material in a sequential manner. In multi-page activities (for example, warm-up, instruction, summary, assignment), each page is gated until the student answers the question on the previous page. This encourages thorough comprehension and active participation.
Browser Compatibility
For optimal performance, Imagine Edgenuity supports browser versions released within the last 6 months. This ensures security and reliability.
Edgenuity's Core Features
Edgenuity offers several core features that contribute to a comprehensive learning experience:
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- Initial credit and credit recovery courses: These courses adapt to each student’s unique learning journey.
- Rigorous, evidence-based solutions: Edgenuity provides rigorous, evidence-based solutions for any instructional model.
- Personalized Academic Goals: Edgenuity helps students meet their personal academic goals, whether they need rigorous coursework to accelerate learning or the opportunity to recover credits.
- Progress Tracking: Measure, manage, and facilitate student success with robust reports for district-level administrators and educators.
- Performance Review: Review student performance and progress and adjust courses as needed.
Professional Learning
Edgenuity provides resources for educators to deepen their understanding through the Free, On-Demand Professional Learning Series: Teaching in the Age of AI.
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