Edgenuity

I'm a student who uses edge and I absolutely hate it, I got a 0 on an essay because Edgenuity said it was word-for-word plagiarized but I wrote it entirely by myself, I've had so many glitches, it is just so hard to listen to it because I just can not keep in the info in my head. I just did a healthy living thing and all I had to do was take the article it gave me and copy it into the box and I got a 100. I am getting slammed with labs and essays and like 10 other things almost every day and I'm tired normally I work from 7-5 every day and I either get a little ahead or like a week behind, if I take a day off I'm just somehow behind again and it takes me so long to get back ahead, and I feel like I'm not learning anything.

My kid has been doing this for a half of a semester and has trouble of keeping any high grades because the teachers from his school has not responded and all the teachers there are not even skilled enough for the classes. Instead of teaching my kid the proper way how to do it. He takes a test and gets it all wrong he does everything right in the assignments but when it comes to test he fails them. My mother works with computers I have called her many times to help my son out with Computer Science but when she tells me the answer my kid gets it wrong this website is a bad way of teaching kids and the teachers don't even care about the kids at home. Even our assistant superintendent wrote back to me that all the qualifications are being meet with there teachers even though they don't know what they are doing and they refuse to email my kid back. Poor effort by the people who created Edgeunity and poor effort on the assistant superintendent by throwing unqualified teachers into a website they don't even know work..

Brett did all he could do to help me help a student. He emailed me the instructions so that I could forward them to my student. I appreciate his help.

My historically A and B students are failing math and science for the second year in a row due to this horrible excuse for school. I'm still waiting for a response from two questions I asked last year, and have never received anything like a response. I sat through my children's (incredibly boring) math videos and classes last year and made sure all of the assignments were done and turned in on time, so when they failed I asked "How did this happen, and what can we do better?" No response! Then, the math lessons given for 7th grade, were the EXACT same lessons given to upper class High School kids! They just pushed my kids into 12th grade math without teaching any middle school math!
I can't add more than one student on my parent account and asked for help. No response!
We asked for a science project supplies list on two occasions. It took TWO WEEKS on both occasions to get a response from the teacher, and by that time, my kids were about 27 assignments behind, and the semester had ended. So they failed. I could go on and on about all the stress and anxiety this program causes my family!
Just disgusting that any school would use this and think it's OK to FAIL this bad with intelligent children.
This needs to be STOPPED.

Okay. First off, I have LITERALLY BROKEN my computer's screen because of this program. My life… it's a living hell right now because of this program. This is the reason the acronym for SCHOOL is Six Cruel Hours Of Our Lives. I've not been able to concentrate on this app for more than 10 minutes before my brain dies of boredom. So, whoever created this, WHERE THE HECK DID YOU ETT THE IDEA!? A Nazi camp for torturing children!? Awesome job, whoever found it there with the goal of making children live in hell, YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED! It is also very laggy and glitchy, and funny thing is, it teaches to not use outdated sources. This is from 2016. I'd consider that outdated, just admiring anyone who will join me in a legal battle in suing edgenuity till they go bankrupt. Useless, spirit-breaking, and they also use some things they haven't even TAUGHT in class in quizzes…

Edgenuity is terrible for several reasons. The first reason is that there are no semesters, trimesters, or any of the sort. This makes it. Difficult for students to keep up their grades because they have to do it all year long, and it makes it more difficult than normal school. Another reason that edgenuity is terrible for students is that it has very many glitches. For example, a student may submit a test but the activity is not completed. This makes the student have to retake the test, which takes around forty minutes to complete. The final reason is that students cannot review their answers on tests. Unlike quizzes, if students get some of the problems incorrect, then they cannot check what they got wrong on the test. How is a student supposed to learn if they cannot see their mistakes and improve upon them. This also leads to several people thinking tests and exams may be rigged. Since you cannot view what you got correct or incorrect, it makes some people suspicious that maybe tests and exams are rigged so that you cannot get a high grade on them.

This site has been the worst site for teaching students because it makes them not retain any information the same way the teachers show them in the classroom causing them to get really frusterated.

I don't think my concern was addressed well. I feel like Edgenuity didn't own the problem and instead placed the problem on the backs of the students. My concern is primarily about equity and I think Edgenuity should own the problem by finding a way to deliver content that is accessible to all students. My students in general have a hard time with the Performance Tasks format... which is missing key information/photos that they need to complete the task. When over half of my students can't download the content without it missing information, that becomes an equity issue. If they were in PDFs or something that all computers recognized that would be so helpful. However, Edgenuity just said that they could see all the content on their end and so that the problem is with how students are accessing it and gave detailed instructions (that middle schoolers would have a hard time following) on how to update software/computers/etc. I strongly believe that if they used a different format to share the performance tasks with students that most, if not all, students could access the material. As educators it is our responsibility to make things equitable. When I share documents with students, those documents are not missing key elements. Edgenuity creates documents that are not easy to access in their entirety and thus, sets up students to fail.

So my school choose Edgenuity as a online learning due to the corona pandemic. IT IS HORRIBLE! I do about 9 to 10 hours a work in a day because the lessons are SO FREAKING LONG! And the videos are outdated. We were learning about somebody they said he was still alive. I looked him up. He died 5 years ago. Like uhhhh why. And I had this super long essay due and it said that I could do it in like two days. UH HECK NAH! And i have the most useless class on the planet. "Online learning and Digital citizentship." Like i mean its such a waste of time. And it always is super glitchy. I have other things to do after school and it just like takes up my entire day. My little brother only had 1 THING TO DO TODAY AND I HAVE LIKE EVERYTHING TODAY! Also when you are not able to move on and it just yells at you because something takes forever, IT IS SO STRESSFUL! For your own sake, STAY AWAY FROM EDGENUITY! IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE!

The speed of response and the clarity of the explanation by Lian were great to respond to a student who, I believe, was trying to get past undone work using imagined technical excuses.