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Customizing a Course

 Note

Looking for information about customizing EdgeEX courses? Reference EdgeEX — Customizing courses overview.

Courses can be fully customized (content can be added/removed) before student enrollment. After students are enrolled in the course, customization is limited to removing content.

When a course is customized, the course syllabus, scope and sequence documents, and student and teacher resources are not updated. These course documents won't update with any added teacher-scored activities.  View the teacher/student guides for teacher-scored activities:

Most course assessments are dynamic. For example, if a lesson is moved from unit one to unit two, the lesson will be assessed on the unit two test. Exceptions are Imagine Purpose, eDynamic Learning, World Language LMS, PowerSpeak, and Career Electives courses; these assessments do not adapt to customizations.

Customizations at the course level will not affect an individual student's customized course, unless the course-level customization does not apply to the student's customized course. For example, if a student's course has all assessments removed or an educator removes a unit, the student's course will be adjusted, removing the assessments or the unit. 

Frequently Asked Questions:
Which courses should not be customized?

The following courses have specific requirements that may cause problems during customization. Please review these guidelines.

  • Advanced Placement® Courses: Edgenuity’s AP® Courses have been approved by The College Board and per their requirements, students must complete these courses in its entirety. Educators may choose to add content or reorder units of study. If an educator wishes to remove content, the course must be submitted to the College Board for approval.
  • Virtual Tutors Courses: These courses include diagnostic pretests and post-tests. If an educator removes content from a Virtual Tutors course, the pre and post-tests will automatically adapt to exclude the content during the customization process. However, if new content is added, the material will not be assessed in either the pre or post-test. This will require the students to complete the new content and not be able to test out. 
  • CTE Courses: Career Technical Education courses (3D Art, Game Design, etc.) have a unique course structure. The educator can reorder lessons in these courses. However, since these courses are project based, it is recommended not to add new content.
  • World Language Courses: The exams in these courses are pre-populated which is why customization is not encouraged. 

For more information about course customization limitations, refer to Features by Course Type.

Is there any way to limit the courses teachers can customize to only the courses they have been assigned?
Yes! Educators can only be given permissions to only customize the courses assigned by an administrator or registrar.
In Courseware, how do the exams work in a full year course?
When the both exams are included in the course, the first exam will only include questions from the first semester, and the second exam will only include questions from the second semester. However, when the first exam is customized out of the course, the final exam would include 50 questions randomly pulled from both the first and second semester content.
Approximately how long is a lesson?
Each lesson varies, but a good estimate is between 60 to 90 minutes.
What happens on tests and exams when I remove a lesson?
When you remove a lesson, the lesson's test and exam bank questions are also removed.
If a quiz is removed, will the student be assessed over the material during the unit/topic tests and cumulative exams?
Removing only a quiz does not affect the question banks of unit/topic tests or cumulative exams. To remove a lesson's content from the tests and exam banks, the entire lesson needs to be removed.
What happens if a unit does not have enough lessons to populate a unit test?
If there are not enough questions to populate an assessment, the assessment will be bypassed.

 Permission

To follow the steps listed below, you will need to have the correct permissions checked under School Courses. To validate your permissions, click here.

You need these three permissions:

  • Create Custom Courses: This permission allows the educator to create a new course using an existing course as a template.
  • Customize Course and In-Flight Enrollments: This permission allows the educator to remove content from a course and all enrollments.
  • Edit Course Options: This permission allows the educator to edit course options at any time, including after you've customized a course.


Need to know how to access this page? View the steps here.

  1. Click Customize.
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  2. Click Create a new course based on this course.
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  3. In order to personalize the course, customize the name. Click the pencil icon.
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  4. To learn about the Customization Tool, click here. 
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Publish Course.
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  6. A warning window will appear. Click Publish.

  7. A confirmation window shows the course was created successfully, but will require the course options to be checked. Click Check Course Options.
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  8. Continue to Editing the Course Options of a Course.

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