Audience: Users that can currently access the Courseware Audit Report will benefit from this update. That includes Account admins, program admins, and instructors. 

Impact: Small, but important for overall program management

What is the enhancement?

This spring, we expanded the all-in-one audit report in Courseware to offer a comprehensive view of student enrollment and course completion progress.

How does it work?

The report now combines active, dropped, and completed student enrollments into a single report and is available from the administration center, classic reports, the program admin dashboard, and new reports.

Internal Talk Track

Audience: Administrators

Impact: Small, but relieving a known pain point for current customers, particularly for larger implementations

What is the enhancement?

We’re granting administrators greater permissions and control to flexibly adjust which educators have the ability to add and drop students from sections.

How does it work?

This improvement to global user management supports better oversight and implementation consistency for educators guiding the overall health of their program.

Internal Note: This will be an account setting available in the admin center.

Audience: School and District Administrators

Impact: With the addition of these courses to the college and career readiness library, administrators can offer even more impactful options to students within their schools and districts.

What is the enhancement?

This school year, we’re adding four additional AP® courses to expand student access and prepare students for success on A.P.® exams: AP® Macroeconomics, AP® Microeconomics, AP® Statistics, and AP® Psychology.

How does it work?

With these upcoming additions, our robust offering in Courseware will grow to 12 introductory college-level courses aligned to the College Board® and latest national standards. This investment represents another step forward toward making our Apex Courses catalog available on the Edmentum platform.

Internal Note: Courses will be made available via an API integration from Apex

Learn more in the internal Feature Focus.

See all available AP courses on the interactive course catalog.

Access the College Board approval letters for AP courses.

Read and share our blog article on how access to AP courses can improve college readiness.

Customer-Facing Teaser Video

Audience: Teachers

Impact: Large - this is a critical feature for both Courseware and Apex Courses customers and should support future transitions to ELF. This also brings us up to parity with Edgenuity.

What is the enhancement?

The 2023-24 school year, we’re introducing two pacing and progress-focused updates, designed to help drive student accountability toward successful on-time course completion and success.

How does it work?

The introduction of On-Target Grade provides educators and students a meaningful new data point for tracking performance, by providing an average grade of all completed and scored activities students are expected to have completed by the target date. While Current Grade provides an average of only work students have completed, and Course Grade provides an average of all work available in the course—both those activities students have and haven’t completed, On-Target Grade splits the difference, by answering the question: Based on my expectations of where students should be tracking, what is the learner’s grade right now?

Additionally, we’re making on-target grade even more powerful by also introducing editable target dates. This update allows educators to make adjustments to when specific activities should be completed, either for an individual student or for entire sections. Do you want to give a specific student an extension on an activity? Edit the target date of when that activity is due, and the learner isn’t penalized for their tardy assignment in their on-target grade.

Internal Feature Focus: Courseware On-Target Grade and Courseware Editable Target Dates

Customer Facing Teaser Video

Audience: Administrators and teachers

Impact: Large impact for existing Courseware customers wanting updated middle school core-four content, but with a familiar and native experience that other Courseware courses allow

What is the enhancement?

We are improving the overall experience for our middle school core subject courses by offering more customization, easier assignment submission, and streamlined grading workflows.

How does it work?

Last summer, we introduced 16 new middle school courses spanning all four core subjects that offered deep standards coverage and engaging, scaffolded content and meaningful practice for students. This investment signaled the first step toward integration of Apex content into the Edmentum platform.

This year, we’re taking that work a step further with notable improvements to the course experience, including:

• Unlocking full use of custom course builder and Flex assignments, just like any other native Courseware course
• Enabling a familiar course structure with lessons focused on instruction, practice, and mastery tests and key teacher graded activities such as practices and labs are now unit activities. This structure will carry over to the Gradebook for streamlined grading workflows.
• Creating a improved student experience for mastery tests by allowing easy test question navigation and access to student tools such as highlighters.
• Embedding assignment features so that access of introductory material, instructions, or rubrics doesn’t require leaving the page. Additionally, instructional content is embedded alongside student activities, and student answers will persist from one session to the next. When work is submitted, teachers can access responses and provide timely feedback.

Customer-Facing Teaser Video

Learn more in the internal Feature Focus.

Audience: Florida Administrators and Middle School Teachers

Impact: Critical to ensure state standards alignment, where we currently have gaps. We have significant penetration and opportunity for growth in the state. 

What is the enhancement?

Robust, rigorous, and Florida BEST standards-aligned middle school courses are on their way for grades 6-8 math, language arts, science, and social studies.

How does it work?

In 2023, Edmentum made significant updates to create high school courses aligned to the new BEST standards; now we are extending this work to our middle school offerings. Course updates will focus on standards alignments and course design expectations to adhere to all Florida requirements.

Audience: Administrators and teachers

Impact: Significant, this is a large need regularly in news cycles and competitive conversations

What is the new release?

We have partnered with Copyleaks to prioritize academic integrity for students through its plagiarism detection tool. With Copyleaks, teachers will be able to:

• submit student submissions, copy and paste student free-write responses, and upload images in a variety of
  formats to verify authenticity of student work
• access reports indicating possible plagiarism so they can intervene with students, strengthen their writing
  and research/citation skills, and take appropriate measures when needed

Read more about Copyleaks and how to handle conversations today in this internal talk track.

Watch the internal training recording from 8/3/2023, and inform yourself about the internal sales and services Copyleaks processes.

Audience: Administrators and teachers

Impact: Important trust builder to signal our proactive approach to course alignment ahead of 2024-25 science standards for both middle and high school.

What is this new release?

In anticipation of the rollout of updated science TEKS in middle school, Edmentum is delivering updated, tightly aligned middle school courses for grades 6, 7, and 8.

How does it work?

Our new Texas middle school science courses will feature sound pedagogical design that is reflective of Texas’ integrated science pathway with rich learner engagement to ensure students can demonstrate successful understanding of all required science TEKs.

Audience: Administrators (buyer)

Impact: Strong impact as it affects current and future CTE and Electives libraries and contracts

What is this new release?

We believe in the power of Career Learning and that owning our own CTE content is the best way forward to ensure we have a stable CTE catalog aligned to key state career clusters and pathways.

As such, we have chosen to end our partnership with eDynamic Learning, and we are reimagining our CTE catalog for the 2024-2025 school year.

How does it work?

Through March 3, 2024, you may quote the existing libraries for single or multiyear deals, but subscriptions may not extend beyond March 4, 2027. On March 4, 2024, you should begin quoting our new offerings for both net new and renewing Courseware customers.

Find more details in the internal Feature Focus: CTE & eDynamic Learning.
Please refer to the Internal Course Crosswalk for comparisons for CTE, HS, and MS elective libraries.

Additonal Resources:

• CTE Clusters and Pathways Brochure
• CTE Pitch Deck
• CTE Curricula Catalog
• CTE Sales Play
• CTE Webinar
• America Succeeds Press Release

Audience: Administrators 

Impact: Small, but meaningful – particularly for larger implementations. 

What is this new release?

This spring, we’re improving global user management by introducing the ability for administrators to flexibly control instructor permissions to complete or undo complete student enrollments in Courseware sections. 

How does it work?

The new account setting, which will be introduced to the Admin Center, adds to a growing list of user management updates that support better oversight and implementation consistency for educators including most recently, the ability to adjust if instructors can enroll and drop students from sections. 

Audience: Administrators (buyer)

Impact: Strong impact in specific states (California most notably) with course investment in inclusive curriculum

What is this new release?

Edmentum is investing in course development that features more inclusive curriculum and meets evolving state-level graduation requirements with the introduction of Ethnic Studies, a new high school course coming to our social studies library.

The course will be available to Courseware customers on April 29, and to Apex Courses customers on May 31. 

How does it work?

Ethnic Studies allows high school students the opportunity to explore social, cultural, political, and economic experiences of various ethno-racial groups, allowing students to bridge the differences inherent in their varied perspectives.

Learn more with the internal Feature Focus.

Download and share the course syllabus.