1. Edgenuity
  2. EdgeEX
  3. Customizing courses

EdgeEX — Customizing courses overview

In EdgeEX, customization flows from the District Catalog to the School Catalog to the section to the individual student enrollment. That is, you can customize at any of these 4 levels and the lower levels will inherit the changes. This means that before you begin customizing a course, you should consider how and where you want your change to apply. For example:

  • If all current and future versions of the course across the entire district should have the same customization, customize the course in the District Catalog. All customizations done at this top level will be applied to current and future sections and enrollments in all schools.
  • If different schools will customize differently, customize the course in the School Catalogs. All customizations done at this level will be applied to current and future sections enrollments in that school.

Every new section you create inherits the customizations that have been applied to the school in which the section is created. EdgeEX does not support copying/cloning sections; instead, customize in the Catalogs so that new sections automatically inherit the correct customization.

You can customize courses by:

  • Reordering semesters, units, lessons, and activities.
    • Units can be moved from one semester to another. Lessons can be moved from one unit to another. Activities can be reordered within a lesson. However, in order to preserve the integrity of the lesson, activities cannot be moved from one lesson to another.
  • Hiding semesters, units, lessons, and activities.
  • Adding lessons from other EdgeEX courses.
  • Adding units and filling them with lessons from other EdgeEX courses.

 Note

There are two ways to skip content in a course: customizing and bypassing. To learn more about the differences between customizing and bypassing and when to use them, reference EdgeEX — Customizing vs. bypassing content.

If a course has already been customized, an icon displays next to Course Structure on the Content tab of the course, section, or enrollment. Hover over the icon to view a tooltip that shows when the content was last customized and by whom. 
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Frequently asked questions

How do I customize semester splits?
Unlike in heritage Edgenuity, semester splits do not need to be created or managed separately in EdgeEX. Districts can customize the full-year course, and then when they go to create their sections, they can choose to assign each section the full year, the first half of the course (Semester A), or the second half of the course (Semester B).
How do I customize trimesters, quarters, or 6-week grading periods?
In later feature releases, we will provide the ability to split a course into smaller assignable chunks such as trimesters, quarters, or six-week grading periods. For now, though, any level of division smaller than a semester needs to be handled by customizing a section. 
Can a district administrator create custom courses for their schools?
Yes. A District Administrator can add a course to a School Catalog and then customize it in the School Catalog. These customizations will only be applied to the course and sections at that particular school.

In-flight customization

You can customize courses throughout the semester even after students have already begun working. 

Higher-level changes are applied to all lower levels. That is, once a course is customized in the District Catalog, the updates to the course are automatically applied to courses that have been pushed to the School Catalog. They are also applied to all sections and enrollments, with the following rules in place:

  • Hidden content: Customizations made at a higher level are applied to all lower levels unless it would override a customization already made at the enrollment level. For example, if a teacher has customized a course at the enrollment level to hide activities for concepts the student has already mastered, those activities will not be added back when changes are made to the course in the District Catalog.
  • Reordered content: Higher-level changes are applied to all lower levels. For example, consider a course with 3 units called "Apples," "Bananas," and "Cherries." If a school administrator swaps the order of Bananas and Cherries, and then a district administrator subsequently moves Apples to the end of the course, the school, section, and enrollment versions of the course will now be Cherries, Bananas, and Apples.
  • Added content: Higher-level changes are applied to all lower levels. An added lesson can only be deleted at the level it was added to; lower levels can only hide the added lesson. For example, if a school administrator adds a lesson to a course and a teacher does not want to use the lesson, the teacher can hide the added lesson for their sections or for individual enrollments.

Procedures

Access the applicable article for steps to customize content:

 

 

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