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EdgeEX — Getting started for administrators

This article provides best practices for getting started with EdgeEX, either for the first time or at the beginning of a new school year. Because there are multiple ways to customize courses for districts, schools, sections, and enrollments, it's important to do these tasks in a specific order so that you can have the best experience with EdgeEX.

 Permission

To perform administrator tasks, you must have the applicable permissions. For a list of EdgeEX permissions, reference EdgeEX — Permissions. To check your permissions, reference Checking your educator permissions.

District administrators

Use these steps to get started with EdgeEX:

Step Action Related articles
1 Log in to Imagine Edgenuity. Logging in to Imagine Edgenuity
2 Review allowed URLs to ensure students will be able to access your course content online. URL configurations
3 Review and customize your district's course options for all EdgeEX courses, if desired.  EdgeEX — Setting course options for the district
4 Preview the available EdgeEX courses in the Imagine Edgenuity Catalog. Previewing a course in the Imagine Edgenuity Catalog
5

Select the courses you want to use for your district and add them to your District Catalog.

For each course that you added, you now have 3 versions in your catalog (unless your course is a single semester course):

  • Year
  • Semester A
  • Semester B
 Adding a course to the District Catalog
6

If you want to customize course content, access the content tab on the Course Hub of the version of the course you want to change and customize it. 

Examples of customizations include: 

  • Adding splits (if you want to use quarters or trimesters rather than semesters)
  • Rearranging content
  • Hiding content
  • Adding activities, including educator-created activities
  • Creating an exam-only course

Changes made at the district level are applied to the course in each of your School Catalogs. If you are making customizations that you want to be district-wide, it is important that you do this before adding courses to schools.
7

If you want to further customize the course options of a single course beyond the district-level customizations you made in step 2, you can do it now.

Changes made at the district level are applied to the course in each of your School Catalogs. If you are making customizations that you want to be district-wide, it is important that you do this before adding courses to schools in the next step.

 Updating course options
8 Select the courses you want to use for your schools and add them to your School Catalog. Adding a course to the School Catalog
9 If your district is using an enrollment integration and you want to upload external course codes for all the courses in a district or school using one spreadsheet, use the External Course Code Import Wizard to perform this task now. External Course Code Import Wizard
10 If you are performing school administrator functions such as customizing courses at the school level or adding sections of courses, continue to step 3 in the school administrator table below.  

School administrators

Your district administrator has added EdgeEX courses to your school. Use these steps to get started with EdgeEX:

Step Action Related articles
1 Log in to Imagine Edgenuity. Logging in to Imagine Edgenuity
2 Review allowed URLs to ensure students will be able to access your course content online. URL configurations
3

Preview EdgeEX courses in your School Catalog.

Courses have been added to your School Catalog by a district administrator. For most courses, you will see an Initial Credit, Credit Recovery, and Honors implementation model for each course. For year-long courses, you will also see the following:

  • Year
  • Semester A
  • Semester B

Your district administrator may have created additional splits of courses (for example, they may have added a version with quarters or trimesters instead of semesters).

 Previewing a course in the School Catalog
4

If you want to customize course content, access the content tab on the Course Hub of the version of the course you want to change and customize it. 

Examples of customizations include: 

  • Adding splits (if you want to use quarters or trimesters rather than semesters)
  • Rearranging content
  • Hiding content
  • Adding activities, including educator-created activities
  • Creating an exam-only course

If you are making customizations that you want to be school-wide, it is important that you do this before creating sections.
5

If you want to customize the course options of a course, you can do it now.

If you are making customizations that you want to be school-wide, it is important that you do this before creating sections.

 

Updating course options

 
6 Create sections and assign teachers to them. You can choose to create sections for one course at a time, or you an create sections for the whole school using one spreadsheet.
7 Enroll students in courses.

Troubleshooting

Use the following articles to troubleshoot issues that may arise.

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