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Features by Course Type


Find information on what features are available to a course based on its type.

Course types

Advanced Placement

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available No
Course Options
not available

These course options are not available:

  • Pretesting
  • Prescriptive testing
  • Exam-only course
  • Accommodations/Modifications
Customization
limitations 		Edgenuity’s AP Courses have been approved by The College Board and per their requirements, students must complete these courses in their entirety. You may choose to add content or reorder units of study, but if you remove content, you must submit the course to The College Board for approval.
Limits on Assessments Most assessments are not dynamic. 
Available via Thin Common Cartridge No
Teacher Graded Amount Approximately 25% of the activities
Instructional
Design

Instruction

Assignment

Project
Materials Required
Additional Notes None

Courseware: 1000- and 2000-series courses

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available No
Course Options
not available 		All are available
Customization
limitations 		Once students are enrolled in a course, it is considered in-flight, which only allows items to be enabled or disabled
Limits on Assessments
  • Pulled from a bank
  • Are dynamic assessments
Available via Thin Common Cartridge Yes
Teacher Graded Amount Minimal- projects, essays, wet labs 
Instructional
Design

Direct Instruction

Online Content

Practice

Quiz
Materials Required Environmental Science only
Additional Notes None

Courseware- 3000 series and Concept Recovery Modules

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available Yes
Course Options
not available 		All are available.
Customization
limitations 		Once students are enrolled in a course, it is considered in-flight, which only allows items to be enabled or disabled.
Limits on Assessments
  • Pulled from a bank
  • Are dynamic assessments
Available via Thin Common Cartridge Yes
Teacher Graded Amount Minimal- projects, essays, wet labs 
Instructional
Design

Warm-up

Instruction

Summary

Assignment

Quiz
Materials Required Materials are required for wet labs in science
Additional Notes None

EdgeEX

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available Yes
Course Options
not available 		All are available.
Customization
limitations 		None
Limits on Assessments
  • Pulled from a bank
  • Are dynamic assessments
Available via Thin Common Cartridge Coming for Back to School 2025 for Canvas and Schoology.
Teacher Graded Amount Minimal: Projects, essays, short answer
Instructional
Design

Warm-up

Instruction

Summary

Assignment

Quiz
Materials Required Materials are required for hands-on labs in science.
Additional Notes To learn more about EdgeEX courses, reference the EdgeEX section of the Help Center.

eDynamic Learning

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available No
Course Options
not available

These course options are not available:

  • Pretesting
  • Prescriptive testing
  • Accommodations/Modifications
Customization
limitations 		Assessments are not dynamic so content moved or disabled from the course will still be assessed in the original assessments.
Limits on Assessments
  • They are not dynamic
  • You cannot create exam-only courses
Available via Thin Common Cartridge No
Teacher Graded Amount A large amount of teacher grading is required.
Instructional
Design

Summary

Objectives

Introduction

Content

Text Questions

Lab Questions

Project

Quiz Review

Flashcards

Reflection
Materials Required Some courses require materials
Additional Notes Read aloud and language translation are not available with these courses. 

Exceptional Students

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available Yes
Course Options
not available 		All are available
Customization
limitations 		Once students are enrolled in a course, it is considered in-flight, which only allows items to be enabled or disabled.
Limits on Assessments
  • Pulled from a bank
  • Are dynamic assessments
Available via Thin Common Cartridge No
Teacher Graded Amount Minimal: Projects, essays, wet labs 
Instructional
Design

Warm-up

Instruction

Summary

Assignment

Quiz
Materials Required Materials are required for wet labs in science.
Additional Notes None

Fitness Courses

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available No
Course Options
not available 		All are available.
Customization
limitations 		None
Limits on Assessments No
Available via Thin Common Cartridge No
Teacher Graded Amount Fitness Log
Instructional
Design

Vocabulary

Instruction

Online Content

Journal Activity

Practice

Quiz
Materials Required No
Additional Notes For ideas on how to score fitness logs use this page. 

Imagine Purpose Courses

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available No
Course Options
not available

These course options are not available:

  • Pretesting
  • Prescriptive Testing
  • Spiral Review
  • Exam-only course
Customization
limitations 		None
Limits on Assessments End of Unit assessments are not dynamic.
Available via Thin Common Cartridge Yes
Teacher Graded Amount It is highly recommended that teachers monitor student responses as soon as they are submitted for a score, or at least daily. These written assignments are very important to monitor as they may contain sensitive discussion topics that require prompt attention.
Instructional
Design
  • Video-based instruction with a written Call to Action assignment at the end of each lesson.
  • Unit Wrap-ups have two written assignments and a five-question quiz.
Materials Required No
Additional Notes None

Imagine Purpose Modules

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available No
Course Options
not available

These course options are not available:

  • Pretesting
  • Prescriptive testing
  • Exam-only course
  • Teacher review
  • Passing Thresholds
Customization
limitations 		None
Limits on Assessments

Assessments are not dynamic; each quiz has 5 questions and they are always the same.
Available via Thin Common Cartridge Yes
Teacher Graded Amount There is a teacher-graded activity in each lesson and in the unit wrap-up.
Instructional
Design
  • Video-based instruction with a written Call to Action assignment at the end of each lesson.
  • Unit Wrap-ups have two written assignments and a five-question quiz.
Materials Required No
Additional Notes These do not contain tests or exams. 

 

Odysseyware 3-5 

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available No
Course Options
not available

Accommodations/modifications are not available.

These course options cannot be changed:

  • Automatic Progression is enabled, because many assessments include teacher-graded items.
  • Fail Attempts are set to 1.
  • Prescriptive Testing is disabled.
Customization
limitations
  • Can only be customized with another Odysseyware 3-5 course. 
  • These courses have the ability to be customized, utilizing the Customization Tool found within the product. Courses cannot be built from scratch. 
  • Assessments are dynamic so should a lesson be removed, the content will not be assessed on a test. 
Limits on Assessments Assessments are dynamic.
Available via Thin Common Cartridge No
Teacher Graded Amount Approximately 20% of the content within a course requires teacher grading. 
Instructional
Design
  • Each lesson is divided into small, manageable chunks for students and begins with clear and measurable objectives.
  • New vocabulary terms selected from academic vocabulary and cross-curricular lists follows the lesson objectives. 
  • Questions are broken up into small chunks relating to the text provided. These are considered self-checks for students to ensure they are on the right track in their leaning.
  • An assessment concludes the lesson. 
Materials Required Students may be asked to use thought maps or diagrams so access to paper and a pencil might be needed. Access to a calculator might be needed as well. Most items can be found within the application or internet but some students may prefer to have them in hand.  
Additional Notes

Glossary is disabled as it is within the activities.

Partial credit is available on the assessments of these courses. Most questions are worth one point on the assessment. If a student, for example, selects one of two correct answers, they will get 0.5 points on that question. 

Tools available for students:

  • 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

Odysseyware CTE

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available No
Course Options
not available 		These course options 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.
  • Accommodations/Modifications are not available.
Customization
limitations 		Courses in the CTE course library can be combined with each other; however, they cannot be combined with courses in the Career Pathways and Electives library or any other Edgenuity library.
Limits on Assessments
  • Quiz: 5 questions
  • Tests and Exams: 25 questions
Available via Thin Common Cartridge No
Teacher Graded Amount

Assignments, essays, projects, and assessments contain teacher grading.

 

Note! 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. 
Instructional
Design

Instruction/Assignment

Quiz
Materials Required Some courses require materials
Additional Notes

Glossary is disabled as it is within the activities.

Assessments are dynamic so if a lesson is removed, it will not appear on exams. 

Partial credit is available on the assessments of these courses. Most questions are worth one point on the assessment. If a student, for example, selects one of two correct answers, they will get 0.5 points on that question. 

Tools available for students:

  • 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

Virtual Tutors

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available Yes
Course Options
not available 		All are available
Customization
limitations 		These courses include diagnostic pretests and post-tests. If you remove content from a Virtual Tutors course, the pre- and post-tests will automatically adapt to exclude the content you removed during the customization process. However, if you add new content into a Virtual Tutors course, that content will not be assessed in either the pretest or post-test, and all students will be required to complete all new content you add. They will not be able to test out of these new lessons.
Limits on Assessments These courses include diagnostic pretests and post-tests. If you remove content from a Virtual Tutors course, the pre- and post-tests will automatically adapt to exclude the content you removed during the customization process. However, if you add new content into a Virtual Tutors course, that content will not be assessed in either the pretest or post-test, and all students will be required to complete all new content you add. They will not be able to test out of these new lessons.
Available via Thin Common Cartridge No
Teacher Graded Amount None
Instructional
Design

Warm-up

Instruction

Summary

Assignment

Quiz
Materials Required No
Additional Notes Pre-testing is enabled by default on math courses.

World Language LMS

Feature Availability
Guided Notes Available No
Course Options
not available

These course options are not available:

  • Pretesting
  • Prescriptive testing
  • Exam-only course
  • Accommodations/ Modifications
Customization
limitations 		Customization is not recommended due to static assessment banks.
Limits on Assessments
  • Mid-term covers content from the first semester randomly from a bank
  • End of year exam covers content throughout the course
  • Assessments are not dynamic
Available via Thin Common Cartridge No
Teacher Graded Amount At least one assignment per week/per student will need to be graded by a teacher.
Instructional
Design 		Each lesson will vary in structure depending on the objectives of the lesson.
Materials Required No
Additional Notes

Closed Captioning is not available on videos. 

Glossary is disabled as it is within the activities.

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