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For information about EdgeEX course availability, features, and releases, reference EdgeEX — Course Releases.
EdgeEX courses contain exciting features built to engage students, empower teachers, and provide administrators with flexibility and visibility.
- Students are engaged with features like personalized study plans and digital, fillable Guided Notes.
- Teachers are empowered with time saving features like our Educator Launchpad and updated grading workflow that streamline teacher workflows, saving them time and clicks.
- Administrators are given visibility and flexibility to customize to meet the needs of their educational communities.
Review the following sections for information about:
Feature releases by date
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The following features were released in September 2025:
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Administrators can run the new Teacher Actions Report to view and export actions taken by educators and administrators in EdgeEX courses. The Teacher Actions Report covers actions such as:
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EdgeEX — Understanding the Teacher Actions Report |
The following features were released in August 2025:
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| Gradebook Activities report: Available in Imagine Edgenuity and Imagine EdgeEX, this exportable report gives administrators a clear, student-level view of grading data by activity. It helps you track student progress and instructional impact across courses. | Understanding the Gradebook Activities Report |
| Attendance report: Available in Imagine Edgenuity and Imagine EdgeEX, this exportable report a detailed view of student engagement by enrollment. Export data on session duration and completion status to help monitor learning time and track accountability. | Understanding the Attendance Report |
| Spanish audio tracks: Imagine EdgeEX now includes Spanish audio tracks across all science, math, and social studies courses. These tracks help Spanish-speaking students better access and engage with content, while giving educators a practical way to support multilingual learners across subjects. | EdgeEX — Available languages for translation |
| Author original activities: Educators using Imagine EdgeEX can now create Speaking Activities in addition to Writing Prompts and Projects. Custom activities support flexible instruction, with options to include directions and set expected completion times, helping educators tailor learning experiences for each class. | EdgeEX — Customizing courses: Creating, adding, and editing educator-created activities |
| Grading assistant for essays: The AI Grading Assistant in Imagine EdgeEX now supports essays. Educators can generate rubric-based suggested comments to give students timely, constructive writing feedback—saving time and helping improve writing instruction across subjects. | EdgeEX — Using AI-suggested comments when grading Short Writing and Essay activities |
| Proctorio Lockdown Browser: Educators using Imagine Edgenuity or Imagine EdgeEX can now enable the Proctorio Lockdown Browser for quizzes, tests, and exams. This tool helps maintain academic integrity by locking students into the assessment window and blocking new tabs, extensions, and scripts, creating a more secure, distraction-free testing experience. | Proctorio Lockdown Browser overview |
| Character replacement cheat detection: An enhanced kind of cheat detection is now available to customers who utilize the Plagiarism and AI Scanner. The PDF report will now include a “Character Replacement” Alert when the scanner suspects the possible use of special characters in order to manipulate the scan. | Plagiarism and AI Scanner |
The following features were released in 2025:
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| July | Permissioned educators can now provide a student additional assessment attempts beyond the number set in course options for Max Allowed Attempts. | EdgeEX course options — Assessment Attempts |
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An enhanced cheat detection is now available to customers who use the Plagiarism and AI Scanner. The PDF report will now include a Character Replacement Alert when the scanner suspects the possible use of special characters in order to manipulate the plagiarism scan. |
Viewing an assignment that was automatically scanned for plagiarism and AI-generated content | |
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Educators can now create their own custom activities in EdgeEX courses: Writing Prompts, Projects, and Speaking Activities. Once created, the custom activities are stored in the educator's activity library for subsequent use. |
EdgeEX — Customizing courses: Adding an educator-created activity | |
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The Manage Score flyout panel displays "AI-Suggested Comments" as a change from "Suggested Comments" when an educator reviews a student’s work on a Short Writing or Essay - Revising activity. Short Writing Essay - Revising |
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| June | Educators can view and opt to apply AI-powered suggested scoring and comments when reviewing student work on an essay (similar to short writing activities) for greater efficiency while grading. | EdgeEX — Using AI-suggested comments when grading Short Writing and Essay activities |
| Educators are prevented from entering a value of less than 1 for the number of initial attempts allowed for assessments. | ||
| April | Educators can access the Section Gradebook and download as a CSV file all enrollment scores. | EdgeEX — Using the Section Gradebook |
| Educators can filter the Educator Launchpad by class. | EdgeEX — Filtering Educator Launchpad widgets | |
| Administrators can now view a summary of the course options set for all their Imagine EdgeEX courses and sections. This report is visible to any administrator with permission to view district reports. | EdgeEX — Understanding the Course Options Summary Report | |
| March | Educators can now set accommodations for students who use a screen reader and/or are deaf or hard of hearing in the student options. Once set, they will apply to all Imagine EdgeEX enrollments for that student. | EdgeEX and heritage Edgenuity — Enabling accommodations and modifications |
| Edits to a Split or Unit Name during customization now save automatically without the need to hit the Enter/Return key. | ||
| Educators no longer need to use their browser's print functionality to download and print a course resource (i.e. Scope and Sequence, Syllabus, Guided Notes, Standards Alignment). The resource automatically downloads to their local hard drive (just like in heritage Imagine Edgenuity). | ||
| Educators can view an activity's score in the course structure when reviewing student work so that they have a quick, at-a-glance view of the score rather than having to navigate to the activity to access the score. |
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Educators can view an icon indicating that the course structure has been customized only when the course structure differs from its original state. Additionally, this same icon and explanatory tooltip also now display in the Enrollment Hub > Grades tab when the course structure at any level (district/school course, section, or enrollment) has been customized for quick, at-a-glance knowledge. |
EdgeEX — Customizing courses overview | |
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Educators will now see when a content tile is selected in the course structure so that it is much more visibly clear to distinguish a content tile that is unselected, selected, or hovered on. |
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| The Weekly Activity Report under Administrator Reports has five new columns. These columns show Totals (instead of Averages) for Active Time and Completed Activities, Quizzes, Tests and Exams. These columns are useful when looking at an individual student who has activity in multiple courses, as it displays total activity across all of the student's courses. | Understanding the Weekly Activity Report | |
| Educators can view and access the Item Info for a question when reviewing a student’s work on a practice assessment or assessment (Quiz, Practice Test, Test, Practice Exam, Exam). (The Item Info button was previously only available when previewing content.) |
EdgeEX — Using the Grades tab | |
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Educators can now download the key metrics shown for enrollments listed in the section hub as a CSV file. |
EdgeEX — Section Hub overview | |
| January | Educators will now find that the Course Report automatically downloads to their local hard drive so that they just click once and do not have to use their browser’s print functionality. | |
| When a lesson has resource documents in addition to Guided Notes, educators can view and access them via a link when on a lesson tile in the Course Structure. | ||
| District administrators can now set default course options by subject and implementation model for all Imagine EdgeEX courses. With this powerful new feature, every Imagine EdgeEX course will automatically inherit the default options you choose, without the need to set them every time you add a course to your district catalog. You can also change course options in bulk for existing courses, sections, and enrollments. | EdgeEX — Setting default course options for a district | |
| Educators with permission EdgeEX Customize Course in District Catalog or EdgeEX Customize Course in School Catalog will see a visual alert when they start customizing a section or enrollment so they can be sure they are at their intended level of customization. | EdgeEX — Customizing courses overview | |
| EdgeEX World Language sections now display on Manage Courses under the Electives subject filter. | ||
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Tiles in the EdgeEX Student Learning Experience will display based on Administrator or Educator setting of the following options:
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| Upon release, educators will be able to edit the Syllabus using rich text formatting (an upgrade from plaintext). |
The following features were released in 2024:
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| December | When customizing courses, customization actions are automatically saved as a draft until educators publish and apply their customizations to schools, sections, and enrollments. Educators will have 90 days to access and resume a draft of their unpublished customizations. | EdgeEX — Customizing courses overview |
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Educators can report an issue directly in-app when previewing an activity or reviewing student work on an activity so that they don't have to write a separate email or use the Eva chatbot. |
EdgeEX — Reporting an issue for an activity | |
| November | Educators with the permission EdgeEX View All Sections in Launchpad can use filters in each widget on the Educator Launchpad to view sections and enrollments not assigned so they can assist in unblocking students as needed. | EdgeEX — Filtering Educator Launchpad widgets |
| Educators can now view and access the Add Split button in the customization editor, allowing them to create custom course splits. They can organize a course into trimesters, quarters, or modules to align with their grading/marking periods. | EdgeEX — Customizing courses: Adding a course split at the District or School level | |
| October | The Educator Launchpad automatically refreshes every 60 seconds. This allows educators to view up-to-date enrollment data without manually refreshing the page. | EdgeEX — Using the Educator Launchpad |
| Educators can view a tooltip in Manage Attempts that tells who provided a retake/additional attempt on an assessment and when they provided it. | EdgeEX — Providing retakes from the student's Grades tab | |
| Educators with customization permissions can add a unit into the course structure, name it what they want, and populate it with reordered or added lessons to create a course that meets the instructional needs of their students. | EdgeEX — Customizing courses: Adding a unit to a course, section, or enrollment | |
| Speed Radar violations are now displayed in the Academic Integrity (EdgeEX) Administrator report. | EdgeEX — Understanding the Academic Integrity Report | |
| September | Educators can view an icon for academic integrity violations in the Enrollment hub Grades tab, specifically in the student's course structure, so that any pattern of violations may be inferred. | EdgeEX — Identifying activities with Academic Integrity violations on the Grades tab |
| August | Educators can create sections from all courses in their School Catalog at one time by using a spreadsheet upload tool. | EdgeEX — Creating sections in bulk |
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Permissioned EdgeEX users can now transfer one or more EdgeEX enrollments to a new section. Transferring EdgeEX enrollments is only possible between sections created from the same implementation model of the same course. Users can transfer enrollments between the full year IC and an IC semester split, but they cannot transfer them to any CR or HON sections. |
EdgeEX — Transferring Enrollments | |
| July | On-Demand Tutoring is now available in EdgeEX courses for schools that have licensed this add-on. | EdgeEX and heritage Edgenuity — Enabling and disabling On-Demand Tutoring |
| The Academic Integrity Report and Weekly Activity Report are now available. | ||
| Educators can view, access, and download the standards alignments by standards (vs. by lesson) for a course via the Resources tab in any hub so educators can see what lesson aligns to each instructional standard. | EdgeEX — Viewing course standards alignment | |
| Upon release, educators can view in Manage Attempts an icon and tooltip that tells who unlocked an assessment and when for each attempt the student completed on the assessment. | EdgeEX — Monitoring teacher actions | |
| June | Educators have access to AI-generated comments they can select and/or modify and send to students as constructive feedback on their submitted work (text only) on short writing activities. | EdgeEX — Scoring and adding comments on an activity |
| Educators can temporarily bypass a single activity for a student via Manage Activity in the Enrollment Hub Grades tab so that students can continue in their courses uninterrupted. A bypass icon and tooltip tells who bypassed the activity and when. Students may opt to still complete a bypassed activity, or educators can manually undo the bypass. | ||
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Educators can view an icon next to Course Structure on the Content tab when the course, section, or enrollment has current content customizations in place. Educators can also view an on-hover tooltip that lets them know when the content was last customized and by whom. This allows for a quick, at-a-glance indication that the content was customized. |
EdgeEX — Customizing courses overview | |
| The EdgeEX Attendance and Session Logs are available to users in schools where EdgeEX is enabled. | EdgeEX — Using the Attendance Log and Session Log | |
| May | Educators can view at-a-glance a visual indicator icon that an activity was reset; a tooltip states who reset the activity and when. | EdgeEX — Resetting an activity from the student's Grades tab |
| April | Answer Explanations are now available for math assessments. These explanations are available to students after they have completed an assessment attempt and to teachers via the Show Answers toggle. | EdgeEX — Using Answer Explanations and Show Me videos in the Student Learning Experience |
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The following accommodations and modifications settings are available now and are set as student profile settings, not in the course options:
Once the Student Profile is set, it applies to all EdgeEX enrollments for that student. |
EdgeEX and heritage Edgenuity — Enabling accommodations and modifications | |
| Students can now view a new Progress Overview page from their Course Map. The Progress Overview provides students detailed information about their course progress in an easy-to-understand way. | EdgeEX — Using the Progress Overview in the Student Learning Experience | |
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Educators can view standards alignments for a unit or a lesson when previewing content via the Content tab in any hub. Students also have access to additional information about each lesson in their course. Specifically, Objectives and Standards via their Course Map. |
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| Educators can view an alert in an enrollment’s gradebook when the student has a Speed Radar violation. | EdgeEX — Viewing Speed Radar on student activities | |
| February | Educators with permission can reorder content at the section level and cascade their changes to in-flight enrollments in their districts, schools, sections, and enrollments. | EdgeEX — Customizing courses overview |
| January | Educators can allow students to "advance with score" by applying a student's highest-scored attempt on a Quiz, Test, or Exam (this is in addition to existing functionality to award a score for a not-started or in-progress activity). | |
| Educators can control whether pacing information displays on a student's Homepage in addition to their Course Map. | EdgeEX course options — Display Pacing to Students | |
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Permissioned educators can use new EdgeEX course options that automatically lock an EdgeEX enrollment before the start date and up to a set number of days after the target date when enabled. Students whose enrollments are locked will see a lock icon and a message informing them when the course will unlock or became locked. Students where pacing is suppressed will only see a progress indicator on their course tile. |
EdgeEX course options — Start and Target Dates |
Features for students
The following features are available for students now:
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| Course Map |
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| eNotes |
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| Progress overview |
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| View Syllabus |
When the Display Syllabus course option is enabled, students can view the course syllabus from their Course Map. |
| Content |
For information about the features of EdgeEX courses, reference EdgeEX — Course releases. |
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Features for teachers
The following features are available for teachers now, or are coming soon:
| Previewing course content |
In the EdgeEX Course Hub, teachers can easily toggle between the student view and the answer key for any activity in a single interface, previewing not only the activity and its correct answers (for all courses) but also the answer explanations for all Assignments and Assessments in math courses. With EdgeEX, there is no need to assign a course to oneself in order to preview content the way a student would see it. The interactive player can be launched on full screen from the Course Hub. |
| Course resources |
The Resources tab of the Course Hub includes the option to download dynamic resources, that is, resources that update automatically when the course is customized.
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| Course options | EdgeEX introduces valuable new course options, including:
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| Course customization |
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| Identifying students who need attention |
The EdgeEX Educator Launchpad displays on the homepage and alerts teachers to which students need attention as soon as they log in.
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| Grading |
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Features for administrators
The following features are available for administrators now, or, when indicated, will be available in 2025:
| Selecting/Provisioning courses |
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| Associating teachers with students |
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| Managing courses |
The Course Hub provides a single interface for all the actions previously contained in Manage Courses, Course Structures, and Course Customization, as well as new actions not previously available.
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| Reporting |
EdgeEX-specific reports available now:
EdgeEX data also appears in these reports, alongside heritage data:
For more information, reference EdgeEX — Reports. |
| Integrations |
Available today:
Available in 2025:
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Features that will not be available in 2025
The following features will not be available in EdgeEX in 2025:
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| Grading |
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| Reporting |
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| Other |
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