Odysseyware Courses

The Imagine Odysseyware 3–5, Career and Technical Education (CTE), Health Quest, Digital Literacy, and Applications courses are available within the Edgenuity system. The following quick-start guide is designed to help you easily transit into the Imagine Edgenuity platform, understand changes to the grading logic, and learn more about the best practices in managing your students.

The course structure consists  of a number of lessons with each lesson containing an Instruction/Assignment and an assessment. All courses include projects, unit tests, and cumulative exams. Courses provide teachers gradable questions on assignments, essays, projects, and assessments. To learn how to grade courses, click here. When grading a course, remember the majority of rubrics are based off 100 points and the system is looking for a score between 0 and 1. For example, if a student scores 94, it is entered as 0.94.  

Assessments include quizzes contain five questions. Tests and exams have twenty-five questions. Students can earn partial credit on questions having check all that apply, matching, and teacher-graded items.

Teachers can also add their own content to these courses.

 Note

Want a quick summary on all the course type features for Odysseyware courses? Click here

 

Frequently Asked Questions
What language translations are available for these courses?
The following translations are available:
  • Arabic
  • Burmese
  • Chinese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Czech
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Haitian
  • Creole
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Somali
  • Spanish
  • Thai
  • Vietnamese
What tools are available to students in these courses?
The following tools are available to students within these courses:
  • Vocabulary terms for the lesson CTE-lesson_vocab_icon.png
  • Lesson objectives CTE-objective_icon.png
  • Read Aloud CTE-read_aloud_icon.png - highlight the text to be read aloud and select the read aloud icon
  • Translation icon CTE-translation_icon.png - highlight the text to be translated and select a language from the translation icon
  • Interactive Dictionary CTE-dictionary_icon.png - highlight a word and select the dictionary icon
  • Screen Mask CTE-screenmask_icon.png - Letterbox- provides a white line for students to move up and down the page as needed while graying out the background
  • Screen Mask CTE-screenmask_icon.png - Ruler- provides a gray line for students to move up and down the page as needed 
Can I add Odysseyware lessons to my other non-Odysseyware courses?
No. We have functionality in our Odysseyware courses that allows for open ended response questions within an assignment or assessment which requires teacher grading. For that reason Odysseyware courses do not have protesting. This is to not impede student progress. Allowing Odysseyware lessons in non-Odysseyware courses breaks that convention.
Can I add non-Odysseyware lessons to my Odysseyware courses?
No. Odysseyware courses use a completely different assessment platform than the current courses (Learnosity). Changes and improvements had to be made to the player to accommodate this. Unfortunately the experience in some of the older questions is less than ideal and can impede student progress.
What course options are not available in these courses?
The course options are the same except the following, which cannot be changed due to some assessment questions requiring teacher grading:
  • Automatic Progression is enabled, because many assessments include teacher-graded items.
  • Fail Attempts are set to 1.
  • Prescriptive Testing is disabled.

 

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Getting Started
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Grading
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Monitoring Students

 

Getting Started

What do I need to know about the Edgenuity LMS to manage my courses successfully?

Required Materials Some courses require materials. 

Check for Additional Materials

Understanding the Homepage Learn about all the buttons on the homepage after logging into the system.

Homepage

User Groups User groups allow educators to organize student accounts, making it easier to manage the student roster in various places. 

Creating a User Group

Adding Students to a User Group

Adding a Course to a User Group

Exploring the Course Structure Become familiar with the structure of an Edgenuity course. Each hyperlink allows the educator to view the content the student will see.

Accessing the Course Structure

Exploring the Course Documents Find teacher documents related to the selected course. 

Accessing the Course Documents

Speaking and Writing Rubrics

Grading

Common Terminology

What do the grades mean and how can I use them with my courses?

Overall Grade Actual Grade Relative Grade

 

Student's Gradebook

Where can I access, view, and grade work completed by a student?

Accessing a Student's Gradebook How do I get to a student's gradebook? Accessing the Gradebook
Resetting an Activity Can I reset a student's activity? Resetting an Activity

 

Course Gradebook

Where can I find more information on how my students are scoring as a group? 

Accessing Classroom Data- Test Can I see how my students fared on the tests in the course?  Gradebook- Tests
Accessing Classroom Data- Quiz Is there a way to find how all of my students scored on the quizzes?  Gradebook- Quizzes
Accessing Classroom Data- Activities Where can I find how the students did on specific activities in the course?  Gradebook- Activities

 

Required Teacher-Graded Activities

 Tips

Educators must grade open-ended items before grades are shown to students. 

Want to learn how to grade assignments and projects? Click here

Want to learn how to grade assessments? Click here

 Note

Students can earn partial credit on the check all that apply, matching, and teacher-graded items.


Monitoring Students

Edgenuity has a variety of ways to monitor students as a whole. Some key reports are outlined below, but feel free to check out some additional reports in our Report Library

Multiple Student Reports

Dashboard

Is there a place to find real-time data on my students' progress?

Alerts There are three different icons shown under the 'Alert' column, what do they mean?  The orange alert means the student is waiting for a review of his/her work before s/he can access the assessment. The yellow alert means the student has submitted work that needs grading. The red alert means the student is out of retakes on an assessment. 
Progress tab vs Course tab What is the difference between the Progress tab and the Course tab?  The Progress tab displays each student's basic information for each course- their grade, start date, target date, date of first grade, date of the last grade, days since the last action, target completion, and progress.

The Course tab provides details specific to individual student courses. This page is useful when comparing students assigned to the same course, as it provides a graphical representation of student progress.
Interpreting Dates and Progress on the Dashboard There looks like a lot of information on this page. What are the key data metrics to monitor?  Some of the key data to monitor to are: Start Date, Target Date, First Grade, Last Grade, Days Since Last Action, Target Completion, and Progress

 

Managing Enrollments

Is there a page where I can keep an eye on student's overall performance in a course? I'd like to track their progress, pacing, grade, and even the last time they had a gradebook entry. 

Active Tab Is there a list of all my student enrollments? Accessing the Active Enrollments
Action Buttons What are all the actions that can be taken with an enrollment? Action Buttons
Other Tabs What do the other tabs, other than Active, do? Manage Enrollments tabs

 Tips

Looking for ways to pair filters together? Check out our best practice suggestions on this page

 Individual Student Reports

Course Report

Is there a report where I can see a summary of a student's progress in a course?

This report is accessible to an educator and a student. It outlines a student's grades, progress, due dates, attempts, and scores. 

Accessing the Course Report Where can I locate this report? Accessing the Course Report Via the Student's Grades
Understanding the Course Report There seems to be a lot of information on the report, what does it all mean? Understanding the Course Report

 

Session Log

Will the completed number of activities populate? 

Yes, an educator will be able to fully track active and idle times as well as the number of completed activities. 

Accessing the Session Log Where is this report located? Accessing the Session Log
Understanding the Session Log What does all this information mean? Understanding the Session Log

Active Time

Idle Time