Overview of the Edit Options
Page for Individual Student
Courses
Edit Options for an Individual Student’s Course
The Edit Options page allows teachers to control course features such as passing thresholds,
grade weights, start date, target date, pretesting, etc… for individual students. The Edit
Options page features described in this section relate directly to changes that can be made
at the individual student level for a specific course assigned to that specific student.
Changing the Course Options relates to changing course options for those courses being
distributed at the district-wide/school-wide level and can be done only by school or district
administrators.
NOTE: In order for an educator to be able to make changes to the Edit Options page for an
individual student’s course, they must have the Edit Options permission in the Student Courses
group of permissions.
To edit the course options for an individual course for a specific student:
1. Click Select Student in the Manage Students section (Figure 1.01).
Figure 1.01
2. A list of students enrolled in your school will appear (Figure 1.02). Click on the name
of a student and that student’s course list will appear.
Figure 1.02
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3. Click the Edit radio button to the left of the course whose options are to be
changed. Click on the Edit Options link above the course list (Figure 1.03).
Figure 1.03
4. The Edit Options page will appear. If any Use Defaults checkboxes are checked, the
associated items will be grayed out. Uncheck the Use Default check boxes to edit
items (Figure 1.04).
5. Once you have completed making any changes, enter a reason for the change
and click Submit.
NOTE: The Edit Options page has been split into 2 graphics so that the image is large enough
to read. Both images will be assigned the figure number 1.04 as they combine to make one
page in the Web Administrator. The features of this page are listed on the pages following the
graphics.
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Figure 1.04
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Figure 1.04
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The following is a list of editable items:
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Course Name: In most cases, you would update the name of the course if the course is
also going to eventually be customized for content. For example, if you customize the
year-long Earth Science e2020© base course into 2 semester-long courses, the new
name of those courses could be: Earth Science—Semester 1 and Earth Science—
Semester 2.
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Assessment Thresholds: Grade percentage necessary to pass lab assessments, quizzes,
tests, and cumulative exams. The defaults are set at 70% for quizzes, tests and
cumulative exams, but these defaults can be changed to suit the needs of individual
students. The default for Lab Assessments is set to 0% so that if a student does not pass
the Lab Assessment they do not get stuck in their course and are instead able to move
on to the next activity.
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Grade Weights: The values assigned for each part of the course that make up the
student’s total grade: Assignments, Labs (Math and Science only), Quizzes, Tests,
Cumulative Exams, and Additional. These values must total 100. While default weights
are in place, they can be edited to suit the needs of individual students. For Language
Arts courses, there will also be a listing for Essays to be factored into the student’s grade.
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Time Limits for Assignments: The default amount of time allowed for each type of
assessment is as follows, but you may adjust that time for the student, as necessary:
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Lab Assessments
3-5 Questions
60 minutes
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Quizzes
10 Questions
60 minutes
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Tests
25 Questions
120 minutes
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Cumulative Exams
50 Questions
180 minutes
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Auto Grading Method: Educators may choose how actively involved in the grading
process they’d like to be. Starting with the simplest (Completion Grade) and moving
toward the most complex (Teacher Supported), each time something changes
between one grading option and the next, it will be noted in orange text.
Please note that for all activities that are NOT automatically factored into the student’s
grade, if the teacher goes in and changes the grade assigned by e2020, the activity
grade WILL now factor into the student’s grade.
o Completion Grade
 Default
 Vocabulary and Lecture activities are not counted toward grade, though
students will see a 100% in the Virtual Classroom upon completing the activity.
 The Journal and Online Content activities are assigned an automatic grade of
100% even if they do not type anything into the response fields.
 Practice/Homework is assigned a 100% even if the student answers all the
questions incorrectly or doesn’t answer any of the questions at all.
 Essays are assigned an automatic score of 100%, regardless of the grade the
IntelliMetric grading system assigned.
 Topic Test/Cumulative Exam Reviews are graded the same as the
Practice/Homework activity.
 System-graded assessments: Lab Assessments, Quizzes, Tests, Cumulative Exams.
If a student answers 8 questions correctly out of 10, they get an 80%.
o Auto with Grade
 Vocabulary and Lecture activities are not counted toward grade, though
students will see a 100% in the Virtual Classroom upon completing the activity.
 The Journal and Online Content activities are graded based on a keyword
check of responses.
 If the keywords are spelled incorrectly, they will not be counted and the
student’s grade will be lower.
 If there are no questions associated with the Online Content activity, the
student’s grade on the activity will not be factored into their course grade,
though they will see a 100% in the Virtual Classroom upon activity
completion.
 If there are 3 OC questions (so each question would be worth 33%) and the
student used key words in 2 out of 3 of their answers, they’d get a 66%.
 In the Journal, since there is only one question for them to answer, if they
have no key words in their answer they’d get a 0%. If they had one key
word in their answer they’d get a 100%.
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 Practice Homework, Test Review and Cumulative Exam Review:
 All Multiple Choice (Objective questions) – system graded. If they
answered 7 out of 10 correctly they’d get a 70%.
 All Short Answer (Subjective questions where students type an answer) –
answers are not graded, students receive a completion grade of 100%, but
the grade is not factored into their course grade.
 Mixed Multiple Choice and Short Answer – multiple choice is system
graded, short answer questions are not factored into the grade at all. If a
student answered 3 out of 5 objective questions correctly, they’d get a
60%.
 Essays are assigned the grade IntelliMetric provided.
 Topic Test/Cumulative Exam Reviews are graded the same as the
Practice/Homework activity.
 System-graded assessments: Lab Assessments, Quizzes, Tests, Cumulative Exams.
If a student answers 8 questions correctly out of 10, they get an 80%.
o Teacher Supported
 Vocabulary and Lecture activities are not counted toward grade, though
students will see a 100% in the Virtual Classroom upon completing the activity.
 The Journal and Online Content activities are graded based on a keyword
check of responses.
 If the keywords are spelled incorrectly, they will not be counted and the
student’s grade will be lower.
 If there are no questions associated with the Online Content activity, the
student’s grade on the activity will not be factored into their course grade,
though they will see a 100% in the Virtual Classroom upon activity
completion.
 If there are 3 OC questions (so each question would be worth 33%) and the
student used key words in 2 out of 3 of their answers, they’d get a 66%.
 In the Journal, since there is only one question for them to answer, if they
have no key words in their answer they’d get a 0%. If they had one key
word in their answer they’d get a 100%.
 Practice Homework, Test Review and Cumulative Exam Review:
 All Multiple Choice (Objective questions) – system graded. If they
answered 7 out of 10 correctly they’d get a 70%.
 All Short Answer (Subjective questions where students type an answer) –
answers are not graded, students receive a completion grade of 100%, but
the grade is not factored into their course grade.
 Mixed Multiple Choice and Short Answer – multiple choice is system
graded, short answer questions are factored into the grade as though they
were answered incorrectly, so the teacher must review the answers and
assign a new grade. For example, if there were 5 multiple choice questions
and 5 short answer questions, if the student answered 4 out of 5 multiple
choice answers correctly they’d only get a 40% on the assignment
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because the 5 short answer questions are factored into the grade as if they
answered them incorrectly. Therefore, it’s as if the student only answered 4
out of 10 correctly.
 Essays are assigned a score of 0% until the teacher reads and scores the essay.
 Topic Test/Cumulative Exam Reviews are graded the same as the
Practice/Homework activity.
o System-graded assessments: Lab Assessments, Quizzes, Tests, Cumulative
Exams. If a student answers 8 questions correctly out of 10, they get an
80%.
NOTE: As noted earlier, if either Auto with Grade or Teacher Supported is chosen, Online
Content activities that do not have questions associated with them will not be counted
towards the student’s grade (Math, Language Arts and some Electives). While students will
receive a 100% in the Virtual Classroom upon successfully completing the activity, when you
look in the Gradebook at their Online Content activity you will note that the grade is not
counted towards the student’s grade for the course.
Any activities that are not factored into the student’s grade by default (lectures, vocabulary)
will have this notation in red text above the Graded Attempts section of the Gradebook, as
seen below.
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Starting Date: The date the student is to begin the course.
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Target Date: The date that the student should finish the course. To change the Starting
Date or the Target Date click on the calendar icon next to the date you wish to
change, click the date itself, and then close the calendar window. The default is that
the Starting Date and Target Date are the same date. It is very important to change the
dates to reflect when the student should begin and end the course as there are several
features that will not populate correctly without a Target Date. For example, the
Assignment Calendar, the Actual Grade, the Target Complete Percentage, etc…
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The dates may be changed at any time and the student’s Assignment Calendar
and Progress Report will automatically update.
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Assessment Options: Educators can select if they’d like to enable any of the following
options:
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Enable Spiral Review:

Pulls quiz questions from the previous 2 lessons to make the quizzes
cumulative.
 Lesson 1: 10 questions from lesson 1
 Lesson 2: 8 questions from lesson 2, 2 questions from lesson 1
 Lesson 3: 7 questions from lesson 3, 2 questions from lesson 2, 1 question
from lesson 1
 Lesson 4: 7 questions from lesson 4, 2 questions from lesson 3, 1 question
from lesson 2
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Allow eNotes on Quizzes/Tests/Cumulative Exams:
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Allows students to use all the eNotes they’ve taken for a given
lesson/topic/unit while taking their quiz, test or cumulative exam.
Allow Save and Exit on Tests and/or Cumulative Exams:
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Provides students with a Save and Exit button while taking a Topic Test and/or
a Cumulative Exam. This allows students to begin an assessment, save it if they
run out of time during the class period, and pick up where they left off the
next time they log into that course.
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If selected, you will also have the option of hiding any questions that the
student answered the before clicking the Save and Exit button. This ensures
that students cannot change any answers that they’ve already entered
when they return to finish the exam.
Automatic Progression:
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This feature allows students to move through their course without being
automatically stopped if they fail their assessments.
For example, if you had a 70% Passing Threshold and 2 Retakes set for a
student and they scored below 70% on both assessment attempts, without
the Automatic Progression option selected the student would have to go to
their teacher and have another retake assigned. With Automatic Progression,
the student’s highest assessment score is the one counted toward their grade
and they move on to the next lesson, even though they have not proven
mastery of their current lesson.
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
Fail Attempts Allowed: By default, students are allowed 2 attempts to pass an
assessment. If a particular student would be better served by raising or lowering that
default setting, the teacher may go in and change the number of attempts to anything
they feel is suitable.
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If a student’s course is set to Pre-Testing and the Fail Attempts Allowed is set to 2,
then one of those attempts will be utilized when they take the pre-test at the
start of the lesson, and the second attempt will be utilized when they take the
end-of-lesson quiz (if they do NOT pass the pre-test they are quizzed again after
finishing all of the lesson activities). If you would like your students to have 2
attempts at the end of a lesson in a course set to Pre-Testing, change the Fail
Attempts Allowed to 3 instead.
Teacher Review: Compels the teacher to review the student’s activities before that
student is allowed to take a quiz, test and/or cumulative exam.
NOTE: In the Manage Students section of the Web Administrator there is a Reviews Required
link. Click that link to see which students are awaiting review. You may also view those
students who require a review by looking at the Dashboard.
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If you select any of the Teacher Review Required options, you may also select
that you must review a student’s work before each attempt at an assessment.
This means that if you review their work before they attempt an assessment the
first time, they fail the assessment and need to retake it, that you would again
have to review their work before they can attempt the retake.
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By specifying a Default Review Timeout Length, it limits the amount of time that
can pass before the student begins the assessment. If the student does not
begin the assessment within the designated time limit, the teacher must open
the assessment again.
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Pretesting: Moves the end-of-lesson quiz to the beginning of the lesson, thus enabling
students who pass the pretest at a pre-determined passing threshold (default is 80%) to
skip that lesson entirely. The student only gets 1 attempt at the pretest. If the student fails
the pretest, the program will force the student back to participate in all activities for
that lesson. Once the student completes the activities and passes the quiz (now
located at the end of the lesson), the student will continue to move forward to the next
lesson where they will then take another pretest to determine if they can skip that
lesson. By default, pretesting is set to off.
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Pretesting can be turned on at any point in a student’s course.
Quiz Review: There are 3 different ways students can receive feedback when they
submit a quiz:
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No Review: Student feedback includes the percentage grade and the number
of questions they answered correctly. This is the default setting.
o
Questions and Student Answers: Student feedback includes the percentage
grade, the number of questions they answered correctly and points out exactly
which questions the student answered incorrectly.
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Questions and Correct Answers: Student feedback includes the percentage
grade, the number of questions they answered correctly and not only indicates
which questions the student answered incorrectly, but provides students with the
correct answers as well.
NOTE: e2020 assessments are pulled dynamically from a large bank of questions. Even if a
student’s Quiz Review is set to Questions and Correct Answers, if the student fails the
assessment the first time, reviews all the answers, including the correct answers, when they go
to take the assessment for the second time that assessment will contain new questions and
any repeated questions will be in a different order.
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Prescriptive Testing: Allows students to take a comprehensive diagnostic pre-test at the start of
a course which pulls one question from each lesson in the course so that a student may ―test
out‖ of lessons. A customized course is created automatically for the student that only
includes lessons that correspond to questions the students answered incorrectly. Prescriptive
testing can only be turned on before the student has begun the course. Once a course has
begun, the red text shown in the example below will appear in the Edit Options page.
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Not all lessons in the Language Arts courses contain quizzes, therefore, only Math,
Science, and Social Studies courses should utilize Prescriptive Testing.
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