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EdgeEX — Course features

This article provides information about EdgeEX course features.

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Course features

The following features are available in EdgeEX courses:

Content: General
  • Fillable Guided Notes, downloadable from Course Map or from in-activity Notes panel.
  • Enhancement to Free Movement to allow students to navigate freely within activities as well as between them.
  • Course option to allow students to increase video speed up to 2x.
  • Translation enhancements (persistent translation setting) keeps the selected language, translation for video captions, double the number of languages supported.
  • Spanish audio tracks for videos in math, science, and social studies courses.
  • Students can submit projects and other uploaded assignments directly from Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud.
  • For districts/schools that have the option, On-Demand Tutoring is available.
Content: Assessments
  • Students can hide assessment timer.
  • When students complete a Practice Test or Practice Exam (Test Review and Exam Review), they receive a personalized study plan before the real assessment.
  • Dynamic assessment algorithms have been updated to reduce the frequency that students see the same item multiple times.
  • Ability to specify assessment accommodations in Student Settings and have them apply to all courses for that student.
Content: Math 9–12

The following features are available: 

  • Answer explanations for all Assignments and Assessments.
  • Show Me videos (just-in-time re-teaching) for selected Assignment problems.
Content: English Language Arts 9–12

The following features are available:

  • Side-by-side display of passages and questions instead of passage opening on a separate tab. 
  • A new “What is Plagiarism?” video that plays the first time a student launches a teacher-scored activity, and every 90 days thereafter.
  • Automatic plagiarism and AI detection for all written work.
Content: Science and Social Studies

Courses include:

  • Social studies courses feature new interactive timeline activities and Inquiry Lessons.
  • Science courses include new Virtual Labs powered by best-in-class third-party simulations from PHeT and Explore Learning.
Content: French and Spanish

Updated courses include:

  • CultureGrams replaced with new culture reading activities.
  • Dynamic tests and exams (item bank updates when you remove a lesson).
  • Multiple small activities combined into fewer larger activities that count toward students' course grades.
  • Updated grammar instruction.
  • Comprehensive updates for accuracy, sensitivity, and variety of task types.
  • Credit recovery versions available with pretesting option.
  • Standards alignments that can be viewed from the Content preview or Customization area.
  • Ability to support accommodations and modifications.

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