Edison Learning
Welcome to your course
Navigating to Your Course
- By now you should have received a login and password from Genius SIS. Genius is our Student Information System.
- Once logged into Genius, you will be directed to your landing page. The Academic Snapshot is where you will log into your courses.
- The Academic Snapshot displays the course(s) that you are currently enrolled in, including the course name, the current grade, the number of assignments completed so far and whether you are ahead or behind pace. You can click on the name of your course(s) which will log you into the online classroom.
- Remember Genius updates nightly, so work done today will not show in Genius until tomorrow.
Landing Page
- Below is a sample screen shot of your landing page upon login. You can view all courses you are enrolled in, course/system announcements, access messages, etc.
Accessing a Course
- Click the course icon to reveal all accessible parts of that course, sample screenshot below. If you are not enrolled in all parts of a given course, they will appear with the locked symbol as seen for Parts 3 and 4.
- When that part is completed and approved, its status will change to Final.
Progress Bar
- The progress bar is displayed after clicking the desired course icon. The overall progress within the course is displayed as a graph, as well as the total assignments and total completed assignments. The 7-day progress is displayed as well.
- If your advisor has entered a start date and end date for your enrollment, you will see the pacing indicator line as well.
- The vertical line displays where you should be to complete the course by the set end date and maintain pace.
- 0 - 4 assessments behind pace: green indicator that student is on pace
- 5 - 10 assessments behind pace: yellow indicator that student is behind pace
- 10 or greater assessments behind pace: red indicator that student is behind pace
- There is no functionality that will lock the course for you if you do not complete the course by the set end date.
- You can message the teacher(s) for the desired course part by clicking the envelope button as seen in the screen shot below.
Virtual Environments
- The Learning Land (K-8th grade) or Research Center (9-12th grade) access can be obtained from the Other Information portlet. If you are under 13 years of age, you must receive parent approval prior to access to the environment.
View Your Grades
- You can view your grades from your student home page. Click the blue grade icon to view the grade breakdown.
- A new browser window opens and displays the Grade Breakdown for that course. This is where you can view all assessment attempts, results, feedback, points earned, points possible, etc.
- When looking at your Grade Breakdown screen for a particular course, you may notice several small icons next to the percent values in the Score column:
- An exclamation point indicates that the assessment is pending. This means the assessment has been completed, and is waiting for your teacher to grade it.
- An hourglass indicates that the assessment is open and in progress. This means that you have started it, but not yet finished and submitted it.
- A yellow padlock indicates that the item is locked. A teacher may lock an assessment for a variety of reasons. When an assessment is locked, you may not take it.
- A letter E next to an assessment score indicates that the assessment has been exempted from the course’s total grade.
- A letter O next to an assessment score indicates that your teacher has overridden the grade generated by the system and provided a new grade in its place.
Grade Breakdown
- Click a percentage link to view the graded assignment. (see below)
- You can view the results of all of the attempts you have completed for each assessment by using the Attempt dropdown.
- Click the dropdown to select an assessment attempt to view. The asterisk beside an attempt number indicates that the attempt is the one that is counted in the Gradebook.
Feedback
- A teacher may leave feedback comments for you at either the individual question level or the overall assessment level. Look for any numbers in the Feedback column on the grade breakdown.
- If it is overall assessment feedback, click the number to reveal what the feedback is.
- If there are parenthesis that contain "ques", there are 1 or more individual questions with feedback in which case you should look at the results of each question to view the feedback.
- Sample screen shot of both question and assessment feedback can be found below.
Communicate with Teacher
Student Orientation Video
To ensure success with the program, you should view the student introduction video. This will show you how to navigate the site, access your assignments, view your graded work, and show you how to use the internal messaging board to communicate with your teacher.
Completing and Submitting a Worksheet
Useful Tips
- The preferred browsers are Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Internet Explorer is not recommended.
- Make sure you have pop-ups enabled.
- If you have trouble getting into your course, try clearing your cache/cookies before contacting technical support.
- If you continue to have issues accessing your course, you can contact your advisor.