Welcome World Language Educators!
The following quick-start guide is designed to help you easily transition into the Edgenuity platform, understand the changes to the grading logic, and learn more about the best practices in managing your World Language students.
Frequently Asked Questions:
How are assignments graded in these new courses?
While Powerspeak used a point-based grading system, Edgenuity uses weighted averages of various activity types to determine student grades. In these new courses, each activity is linked to a weighted category that is calculated as a percentage of the student’s grade. You can customize the weighted percentages as you see fit. Learn more about how to do that here.
What options are not available on these World Language courses?
Pretesting, prescriptive testing, and creating an exam-only course are not available options in World Language courses.
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Can the AP World Language courses be split into semesters?
No, the AP courses are currently only available in full-year options.
Approximately how much grading is expected in a World Language course?
Districts should expect that each student will need about one activity per week graded by a teacher who speaks the language. These could be writing or speaking activities.
This is because the Powerspeak LMS had a points-based grading system and the Edgenuity LMS has a category-based grading system. We changed activities with a small number of graded questions to be unscored. Otherwise, students would be unfairly penalized for a single wrong answer and the 0% score on the activity would weigh down their course grade.
Each exam- the midterm and the end-of-year exam- have a bank of questions that are pulled at random. The midterm exam will cover the content taught in the first semester while the end-of-year exam covers all the content from the course. The question banks are pre-populated and are not dynamic, which is why customization in World Language courses is not encouraged.
Are textbooks required for the AP World Language Courses?
Students are earning coins through the program. What are they used for?
They were used for Avatars, but those are no longer supported as they relied on Flash. Educators can use them for classroom rewards or motivations.
What is the best way for an AP World Language teacher to view the course as a student?
Copy the course and assign the copy to your account. This way you can still grade your student's coursework while also viewing the content from the student experience.
 Getting Started |
 Grading |
 Monitoring Students |
Getting Started
What do I need to know about the Edgenuity LMS to manage my world language courses successfully?
| Understanding the Homepage | Learn about all the buttons on the homepage after logging into the system. | |
| User Groups | User groups allow educators to organize student accounts, making it easier to manage the student roster in various places. | |
| 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. | |
| Exploring the Course Documents | Find teacher documents related to the selected course. | |
| Customizing a Course | Edgenuity allows for course customizations. Find important information to know before embarking on customizing a World Language course. | |
| AP World Language Only- Editing the Course Options | Optional- Adjust the course options of an Advanced Placement World Language course |
Grading
The Powerspeak LMS uses a points-based grading system, while Edgenuity has a weight-based grading system based on activity categories. Now that the Powerspeak content is inside the Edgenuity LMS, World Language activities have been categorized, allowing us to move over to the weight-based grading system used by all other Edgenuity courses. There are two major changes to how activities are graded based on this shift:
- Any Powerspeak activities that used to be worth a very small number of points are not counted in the weight-based grading system within the Edgenuity LMS. This prevents students from being unfairly penalized for a wrong answer, providing them with the permission to fail that we value in our Courseware instructional model. For future reference, this page shows the Powerspeak activities that fall into each grading category.
- The grading around quiz writings has another notable difference caused by moving from point-based grading to weight-based grading. In the Powerspeak LMS, any quiz writings that were worth less than five points have been converted to Practice activities in the Edgenuity LMS. This also prevents any extreme penalties from disproportionately impacting the average quiz score.
Learn more about editing the options on a course level or a student level to change the weights for each category.
Common Terminology
What do the new grades mean and how can I use them with my world language 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 |
Speaking and Writing Assignments
Non-AP World Language Courses:
Want to learn how to grade speaking assignments? Click here.
Want to learn how to grade writing assignments? Click here.
AP World Language Courses:
Want to learn how to grade speaking assignments? Click here.
Want to learn how to grade writing assignments? Click here.
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 |
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
This is a familiar resource, but now that the courses are in Edgenuity's LMS, will the completed number of activities now 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 |
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