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    Edgenuity

    A 400-course online middle and high school platform that schools and districts buy, not families, where recorded on-screen teachers deliver the lessons, the computer scores the…

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    As a full curriculum
    4.1/5
    As a supplement
    4.1/5
    How this is scored

    How it scored

    Nine dimensions, each scored 0 to 4 by a reviewer working from the programme's own published materials.

    4
    Standards, Accuracy & Content Scope

    Is the content accurate, at the right level, and does it cover what it claims?

    3
    Focus, Coherence & Cognitive Rigor

    Does it build in a sensible order and make a student actually think?

    3
    Research-Consistent Instructional Design

    Is it taught in a way the research supports, with honest claims?

    3
    Assessment, Feedback & Demonstrable Mastery

    Can you actually see what your child learned, not just what they finished?

    4
    Accountability & Feedback Loop

    Does a qualified adult read your child's work and respond to it?

    3
    Adult Usability & Implementation Support

    How much work is this for you, and does it help you do that work?

    4
    Differentiation, Access & Learner Fit

    Does it flex for a struggling learner, an advanced one, or a different kind of learner?

    2
    Practical Feasibility & Transparency

    What does it truly cost, in money and time, and will it work where you live?

    3
    Academic Demand & College Readiness

    Is this preparing a student for college, or just for a diploma?

    The practical details

    Grades
    Grades 6 to 12. The Imagine Edgenuity product page states "grades 6-12," and the Missouri MOCAP course catalogs list every Edgenuity course…
    Subjects
    400+ courses per the product page. Core 6-12 English language arts, mathematics (Math 6/7/8, Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Precalculus, Trigonometry, Integrated Math I-III, Statistics, Financial Math), science (Life, Earth, Earth and Space, Physical, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental), and…
    How it runs
    Self-paced and asynchronous by default. The Missouri MOCAP catalog marks essentially every Edgenuity course "Asynchronous." A typical lesson is: warm-up, a recorded direct-instruction video from an on-screen teacher, interactive practice with note-taking…
    Who teaches
    Instruction inside the courseware is delivered by pre-recorded on-screen teachers on video, not by a live person. Imagine Learning describes it as "rigorous, explicit instruction led by expert, on-screen teachers." If the buying school purchases the "with instruction" option, Imagine Learning also assigns its own…
    Who grades
    Split, and the split is the whole story. Quizzes, tests, and exams are auto-scored by the system. But Imagine Learning's own "Teacher Grading in Edgenuity" info sheet states plainly that a qualified teacher must score: Projects, Short Writing assignments, Essays (ELA and social studies), Performance Tasks (math), Lab Reports (science), open-ended assessment items (CTE), and Speaking activities (world languages).…
    What the parent does
    Not documented as a defined role, because Edgenuity is not sold to parents. What is documented is the Family Portal, which is explicitly read-only: a parent can see grades, course completion, attendance, time spent on courses, pacing and whether the student is on track, the activity stream, school messages, and the calendar, and cannot edit, change, or enter the student's classes. All teacher powers — setting course…
    Credit and records
    Imagine Learning holds Cognia Corporate Systems Accreditation covering "corporate systems, Imagine Edgenuity curriculum, and Imagine Instructional Services," plus WASC Supplementary Education Programs accreditation. It is a College Board authorized Advanced Placement provider. NCAA status is granted course by course, not company-wide: the Missouri MOCAP catalogs carry an…
    Cost
    Quote-only and institutional. There is no family price, no online checkout, and no published rate card on imaginelearning.com; every pricing path routes to sales at 877-725-4257 or solutions@imaginelearning.com. Licensing is described in contract documents as Concurrent Licenses (a number of simultaneous seats for the term) or Reusable/semester licenses, sold on an annual term to a district. The only publicly…
    Alaska notes
    Bandwidth is the first hard filter. Minimum is 384 kbps per concurrent user and 2 Mbps is recommended, but the volume matters more than the speed: about 110 MB per lesson against roughly 40 lessons per semester course works out to roughly 4 to 5 GB of video per semester course, per student. That is fine on Starlink or fiber and is a budget problem on a metered satellite or…

    Strengths

    • Catalog breadth almost nobody matches: 400+ courses under one login covering 6-12 core, 12 AP courses, five world languages, 16 CTE career clusters, GED/HiSET/ASVAB/ACT/SAT test prep, and an…
    • Credit travels. Cognia and WASC accreditation, College Board AP authorization, state department approvals including an Alaska-specific course list, and a published course-by-course NCAA yes/no column…
    • Real human grading is designed in, not bolted on: projects, essays, lab reports, math performance tasks and world-language speaking activities all route to a person with supplied rubrics, and the…

    Weaknesses

    • A family cannot buy it. There is no consumer product, no published family price, no trial, and no documented refund policy. Access runs through a district, charter, correspondence program, or state…
    • In curriculum-only mode the grading load does not disappear, it lands on an adult. Essays post as 'pending' until a human accepts or modifies the score, and the auto-scorer that produces the…
    • The rigor can be silently switched off. A school can customize projects, performance tasks, and lab reports out of a course, and can enable 'completion grading' so essay scores post with no human…
    Good fitA family whose student is already enrolled in an accredited district correspondence program, charter, or state course-access program that has licensed Edgenuity, and who needs specific credit-bearing high school courses that the local school cannot staff — an AP, a world language, a CTE certificate track, or a course…
    Poor fitA family shopping for a curriculum to buy and run themselves — you cannot purchase it and there is no family-facing support model. A family with elementary students, since nothing below grade 6 exists in Edgenuity. A family wanting a parent-free full core, because curriculum-only leaves real essay, project, and lab…

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