EdgeEX — Course features

• 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.
• CloseReader lessons allow students to highlight and annotate content.

• 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 the Student Profile and have them apply to all courses for that student.
  • Reduce Answer Options By: When enabled, reduces the number of incorrect options students can choose from on single-select multiple choice questions in assessments that initially contain at least 4 answer choices. Deactivated answer options will be hidden for students. 
    
    Educators have the option of reducing the answer options by 1 (resulting in 3 answer choices for the student) or 2 (resulting in 2 answer choices for the student).
  • Reduce Number of Assessment Questions: When enabled, reduces the number of assessment items on Quizzes, Tests, and Exams (does not include Pretests, Practice Tests, or Practice Exams).

The following features are available: 

• Answer explanations for all Assignments and Assessments.
• Show Me videos (just-in-time re-teaching) for selected Assignment problems.

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.

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.

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.