Edgenuity is by far the worst online learning platform I’ve ever encountered. It’s breaking our kids’ spirits, making them hate learning and stressing them beyond the breaking point. Read on for my full Edgenuity review and learn why I’m literally BEGGING my son’s school to use ANY other platform available.
Spend five minutes reading Edgenuity reviews from parents and students, and you’ll quickly see a trend emerge. Sure, some educators and employees left glowing feedback, but actual STUDENTS rarely have anything good to say about it. For those who really matter, it’s a 1-star learning platform at best (and that’s pushing it). Of course, if you’re a parent of an Edgenuity student, you don’t need to read the reviews. Just ask your kids what they think. Seriously. Sit down with them and REALLY ask them how they like the platform.
I’ve spent the last semester not only lurking on Reddit groups entirely dedicated to how much kids hate this platform but sitting by my son’s side taking screenshot after screenshot of what makes it such a subpar learning system. I rarely write negative reviews. I’m not really a negative person in general (okay, sometimes, but not here). However, I am at the point where I’m ready to get on my knees and BEG my son’s school to switch to something else. It’s THAT bad. Let me explain why (parts of this come from the actual letter that I’m in the process of writing to the school board).
Edgenuity Review: It’s the Worst Learning Platform Ever
Let me be blunt: Edgenuity is by far the worst online learning platform that I’ve ever encountered, and it has to go. Bold statement (pun intended), I know. Don’t worry, I have plenty of what I feel are solid reasons to back it up.
My son is no stranger to online learning. He spent two years in middle school in REACH Cyber, and he did very well. However, he opted to return to his old school for his freshman year so that he could have a “normal” high school experience. Of course, COVID-19 came along and blew that plan out of the water. When fall came around, I was uncomfortable with the board’s decisions regarding returning to the classroom, so we opted to remain in cyber school.
I actually wanted to switch my son back to REACH, as I was completely unimpressed with Edgenuity last year. I realize that the switch from in-class to online learning needed to happen quickly and the district did the best they could with the information and options available to them, though. My son wanted to stay in the district so that it would be easier to switch back once safe to do so. I asked about our school’s dedicated cyber academy and platform and was told that while it was still Edgenuity, I shouldn’t judge it based on our experience with it last year because it is done differently.
It’s not.
The Edgenuity platform that his school uses is exactly like the platform that the district used last year because it IS the same platform. Edgenuity doesn’t “do things differently,” period. Nearly every single class is organized exactly the same way nationwide. It uses outdated material that works for exactly one type of learner. Given the sheer number of kids I see complaining on Reddit about the platform, I’m guessing that type of learner makes up roughly 0.0005% of the population.
I realize that so far, I haven’t really presented my “evidence,” so let me switch gears from a more emotionally charged plea to one rooted in logic. We’ll call this section Evidence Against the Platform.
Evidence Against the Edgenuity Platform
First, yes, I have spent a lot of time on the platform with my son. I’m not just “taking his word for it” that it’s awful. I also spent time reading what other teenagers are saying about it. I’ve read countless reviews from other parents, pored over message boards and social media. I needed to answer the question of, “Is this a matter of kids just complaining about school or is there something deeper at play here?” for myself before throwing my hat into the ring on their behalf (or whatever sports metaphor works here, I don’t actually know anything about boxing).
1. Outdated information in lessons
While none of these are correct for 2021, he went with MAC OS because it’s the only one close to what actually runs on today’s smartphones.
Let’s start with an issue that isn’t even remotely subjective: outdated course material. I first noticed some issues last semester, when my son told me he got some questions wrong about statistics that were outdated. However, I let it go because it was just here and there.
This semester, he is taking an Intro to IT course, and the issues are astounding. I’ve narrowed down the date that this class was created somewhere between 2007 and 2014. Just a few of the signs that it’s beyond dated include:
- My son recently got a question wrong on the test because he didn’t choose something called “Symbian” as the most common smartphone OS. I looked it up, that OS launched in 1998 and was discontinued around 2014.
- It continually references Windows 7 as though it’s the latest OS.
- It mentions the popularity of FireWire (which I forgot even existed until now, as it was discontinued years ago).
- FireWire is the only correct answer for “Which of the following ports offers a fast connection that could be used to download and watch your favorite TV shows?” Ethernet is wrong.
- Microphones are NOT counted as popular input devices. Nor are webcams.
- USB 2.0 is the newest type of USB port
If this were, say, an ancient history or even a literature class, being outdated wouldn’t be such a monumental problem. However, with computer-related classes, it’s not only a minor annoyance but also detrimental to our kids’ education. My son spent the entire semester learning the wrong answers to technology-related questions.
Ironically, one of the slides included this little gem about how information that is five years old is not reliable if you’re looking for info related to computers:
Major projects assigned on the day they’re due & other roadblocks to success
Major project assigned and due on the same day, no mention of it beforehand at all so he could prep.
Since the platform is designed with roadblocks set up to keep kids from doing assignments out of order, students only find out about a major project on the day that it’s due. If they don’t have an extra 2+ hours to devote to that class (on top of the 1.5 that they’re already spending on it), they can’t move ahead. Each day extra that it takes gets them roughly 1-3 hours behind.
Also, if a test isn’t unlocked by a teacher on time, kids get behind. If there’s an issue with the software (see “glitchy software below) and they can’t complete a class on a particular day, they get behind. Worse, the school’s response to this seems to be “just work on weekends.” When a glitch pushed my son a whopping week behind in one class, administrators suggested that he use his break to catch up.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I’d be pretty ticked if my boss told me that I had to put in 36 extra hours of work a week to get caught up on something that I was behind on because another co-worker didn’t do their job.
Let me be clear: I am NOT blaming his teachers for this. Most- if not all-of his current teachers are actually “brick and mortar school” teachers trying to keep up with dozens of in-person students in an increasingly confusing and bizarro hybrid structure.
Writing assignments graded by an algorithm must be stuffed with keywords to pass
The vast majority of the short writing assignments are graded not by a teacher but by an algorithm that searches for keywords. My son wrote 5 paragraphs once that fully answered the question posed, but he didn’t use one specific keyword and got a ZERO. See, these assignments are “all or nothing.” Miss one word that the algorithm searches for and you fail, period.
So, he started experimenting. Rather than writing complete sentences, he just started cramming as many words related to the topic as he could think of into the text box. For example, if the question was something like “what makes plants green,” rather than writing about the actual biological process, he’d just cram words like “Sun sunshine oxygen chlorophyll chloroplasts stamen stem bud flower. Photosynthesis organelles blah blah blah.”
He got 100% on those and his teachers never brought it up. So, he figures, why bother wasting time writing long and accurate responses? I mean, he’s already so overwhelmed with work anyway. Might as well save a few minutes, right? I let him do it because, well, he’s right. WHY waste the time when no one is even looking at these and accurate responses aren’t graded any higher than a stream-of-consciousness response that includes all of the right words?
Designed in a way that reflects only one learning style at the complete detriment of others
My biggest gripe about Edgenuity isn’t the outdated lessons or the crappy algorithms. It’s the fact that the system is designed for exactly ONE type of learner: kids who absorb information by watching the most boring videos imaginable. I’m talking LOOOOOOOONG unskippable videos that make ME want to pull my hair out (and I only watched a few to get an idea of what he deals with).
It’s rare to find a class that doesn’t rely entirely on these boring videos. His IT class is the only one that he’s taken so far that uses slides instead of videos. He finished the class two weeks ahead of schedule, with a B+ (he lost points on some CSS project, but was never told what he did wrong, so there’s that, too).
When my son did REACH, each and every lesson had multiple ways to learn. Kids could read through the slides, play interactive games, answer questions on an interactive worksheet, watch a video and even listen to audio. While not every lesson offered all of those, most had at least three different ways to absorb the information. Plus, if your kid already knew the material, they could skip through the slides to the Quick Check at the end and move on. Jake was consistently ahead at REACH. Now he’s consistently behind.
It’s not even so much that the videos are boring (seriously, though, even the teachers giving the lecture look and sound bored out of their gourds). It’s that they’re 100% mandatory and unskippable. You MUST watch every last second of every last video. No exceptions.
So, say your child had the flu for a few days and couldn’t even get out of bed to do schoolwork. In regular school, their teachers would give them their missed assignments and guidance on how to get caught up (if they needed it). I’ve never in all my life had a teacher say, “Well, since you missed three days of lessons, you need to sit down and listen to every single word that I said during those lectures. You MAY NOT move forward until you do so, so get comfortable, we’ll be here for a while.”
On Edgenuity, if your kid is sick and misses three days, they not only have to watch all of those videos before they can move ahead, but they now have exactly one day to do ALL THREE DAYS worth of work in EVERY class PLUS all of today’s work. Otherwise, they get this dreaded red “you’re behind” bar:
Final Words on Edgenuity
I haven’t even touched on the software glitches that put kids even farther behind, the lack of tech support, or any of the myriad of issues with the platform’s software itself. Oh, and even if your kids get behind for reasons that are entirely Edgenuity’s fault, they won’t get extra time to get caught up. Don’t worry, though; they can always work on weekends, at night, and during spring break! If they do just 75 extra assignments a day, they’ll be caught up in no time! (That’s barely sarcasm, as it seems to be my son’s school’s go-to response when he’s behind: just do extra assignments on weekends).
If you want to find out what our kids really think of Edgenuity, I highly encourage you to check out the video below by Coletainment. These kids did a STELLAR job of showing you what it would look like if it was a real teacher in an actual classroom. They’re not exaggerating.
I also encourage you to search Reddit and YouTube for Edgenuity reviews and complaints by other kids, or read any of these other Edgenuity reviews and news stories:
Very long story short, Edgenuity is by far the worst learning platform I’ve ever experienced. Between my son and I, we’ve used REACH, Blackboard, and Google Classroom. No platform is 100% perfect all of the time, but Edgenuity is the only one that has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever in my opinion (and in the opinion of every parent & student that I’ve talked to).
Maybe there are kids out there who like it. Not just tolerate it, but actually like it. I haven’t met any, but I’m sure they exist. Before you commit to sending your kids to a school that uses Edgenuity, though, demand to see the platform in action (unlike REACH, Edgenuity doesn’t really have a “for parents” section on their website, so you’ll have to ask your school for a demo). I wish I had done that instead of taking the school’s word for it that it would be “much different” than last year’s mess.
I am a student and I agree that the platform is stupid. I have gotten answers wrong and when they show me the “right” answer, it shows what I put. I am going to send this website to my mother, grandmother, father, and grandfather. I agree with everything in this article and I read it all instead of doing my Edgenuity math assignment.
the sound of the videos are super quiet and so i turn my volume up. then a question rolls around and you have to turn the sound down, this goes on for hours
Lol
Me: *peacefully watching a video with the sound all the way up because I can’t hear a thing*
(two seconds later when I move to the next “slide” thing)
Headphones: **explosion**
So true 😭
My video’s audio is not even understandable, I even tried using an equalizer on vocal settings to improve it but I still can’t understand anything it says.
Yes, 100% agree with you on the sound problems. It does not happen every day throughout all lessons. It does occur frequently enough to become stressful and have a negative impact on my quiz and test results. I created a video to demonstrate to my teacher what I had to go through to hear lessons due to poor audio. I actually had to connect my laptop to my huge bluetooth speaker and play the audio on maximum volume within the Edgenuity platform, on my laptop and on my bluetooth speaker of 1,500 watts after internal boost from built-in amp with that volume on max. I could just barely hear the instructor/ q-card reader after all of that. I had complained to my teacher a few times about the problem. It did not happen every single day but if it occurred while at the beginning of any lesson segment it would continue all the way through that lesson segment/topic. If the next lesson topic was the same person reading the information outloud then the volume problem would persist until there was a different individual doing the reading aloud of the material. Always when a woman with short dark brown hair, thin faced, caucasian, usually wearing a blue top or coat and talks a little nasally but her videos almost always have the sound issues. Also yes it totally sucks when you have all 3 volumes up all the way then you click the arrow to advance to the next little segment and if it happens to be a question portion the volume works just friggin’ fine and it scares the crap out of you and everyone in your entire household even if they are outside.
omg, i was also reading this instead of doing stupid edgenuity. This article and comment sums up the entirety of the stress and frustration of my 8th grade year.
same energy, except I’m in 7th.
Me too- im behind rn and im supose to be doing edgenuity, but im not
Me too- im behind rn and im supose to be doing edgenuity, but im not, im reading this so true article.
Im going ahead in edgenuity so i don’t have to endure the torture on my birthday, also I’m making a petition to stop edgenuity. Please sign…
change.org/edgenuitysucks
My daughter was a straight A student. We started this program her last semester in 6th grade. Awful, repetitive, discouraging. She has ended with straight C’s. Teacher was rude towards the end giving harsh marks on essays. Only available couple hours. My daughter was sad, feeling incompetent and frustrated. Teacher basically made me feel we were lucky she had C’s. Shame on her
So my kid is doing summer school it’s 18 days 3 day a week with work during the day.
My kid bought a lap top specially with the intention of being able to get the work done at home . They have 47% done in 8 th grade English and 37 in math when the principal Gives everyone a goal of 30 or 40 % to pass my kid gets a goal of 100% .so the issue is when working at home even if you pass all the quizzes and tests it stops saying needs reviewed. So. It doesn’t matter what they do it’s unrealistic and unreasonable!! Also the sound sometimes sounds like a busted speaker just awful. I really hope their principal will be reasonable.
I am A student to and the teachers assign us like 6, 30 minute tasks and I for one do not have enough time. It is BS.
I usually have A’s and A+’s, but the only real problem about edgenuity is the fucking INTERFACE, with unskippable practically almost everything.
And also on the academic extreme on “model minority”
i totally agree! A dumb edinutity video is playing in the background while reading this. Its stupid. everthing is so outdated and you can tell that the videos were made in 2011 and havent been updated since. Even all the answers are getting marked wrong becasue of how outdated it is.
1. spam keywords
2. brainly and quizlet
3. skip video 8 seconds ahead of time
4. open a bunch of study tabs from quizzes for quizzes, tests, and exams
5. Use tutoring help with tip #4 on quizzes, tests, and exams
6. copy/paste vocab
7: DO NOT USE ENOTES(if possible)
yes,these videos suck and audio booms on the questions.
This site if very out dated might i add.
yes the platform is very mundane and for my course spanish it used spanish but from spain when we are taking a mexican spanish class and then we get the questions wrong while we knew the right answer in the first place
You are so right Im a student too they need to think about whats fun not boring!
Im in 11th grade and its made doing assignments on time so hard but ive learned so many little hacks to get done with stuff faster , for example on the practice assignments if you just type i dont know in the sentence boxes it will just mark it as 100 anyway and they dont usally give that many multiple choice parts depending on the class so i always pass the practice assignments with at least 80
As a high-school student being forced to use this in place of our schooling during this pandemic, I can say this is the worst possible replacement for education. I have literally cried over it several times in the past year, just from unbearable stress. From the fact that lessons change every other day, to I can’t even learn anything because there isn’t enough time nor information. Not even that, a LOT of the videos and information are completely outdated! Some videos I spectate to be from the early 2000s or earlier… Anyways, I struggle a lot with math unless its hands on, and I didn’t want to do in person school because I’m at risk of sickness, so I had to do online. And our school just had to pick the worst possible website for it, I don’t blame them, it looks all professional on the outside. But on the inside is constant confusion of what I’m even learning about, being unable to learn anything at all because of the fast pace, not really having anyone there you can contact for help, and constantly having “behind” in red even if you’re just one assignment behind. (the “behind” in red makes me really stressed, I don’t know why they put that but its been proven marking in red is bad for student’s mental health and motivation)
Overall, this website is the worst, I have never cried more over school work in my life. I’m an all A’s and B’s student, always have been, but I struggled so much. People are much better not using this site, and or if you are forced to use this site (like I have because of my school choosing it) you’re better off cheating than wasting hours to trying to actually learn and understand any of it. I’ve tried my best to learn by myself without having to look up stuff for help, but it’s just impossible. I just wanted to write this to also put my thoughts on it :(( Because it really stresses me out, Im right now at the end of my schooling this year as a sophomore, but Im cramming in 4 weeks of work in 2 weeks because of how fast they expect you to learn stuff.
To those who are also struggling, I am so sorry you’re dealing with the same stress. You’re not alone, it’s not you, you’re completely capable of understanding whatever you’re learning! It’s just the dang site, that is all.
I also have an assignment for ELA that is due on the seventeenth of May (Five days from now) and it says I’m behind. I swear I lost a quarter of my grade for that! I am normally a straight A’s student, but Edgenuity brought me down to an on average B’s student. I’m seriously DONE with Edgenuity, and I will be going back to actual school next year.
Honey, I think we have the same problem lol. Great minds think alike so if you want to reach out and vent reply and I’ll give you my email lol
same, this site is terrible, the least I ever got before I started this was a C for English without reading the coursework. now if I get one problem wrong I get sixty percent on obscure quizzes that have five problems. and they still don’t say what the right answer was, just that my answer was wrong. i am also supposed to be doing edgenuity right now.
I have been going threw the same stuff you have I have been so stressed and cried so many times over it when Edgenuity first started I tried to learn but it was so hard to the videos were so long at times and it made me so bored I thought it was just be because I already hate school and my attention span sucks but it was not really just me after all and there is a hack u can do to skip the videos! I learned one myself and i looked another on google here is the one I learned myself first: watch the video (not all the way) until it is the middle of the video pause it wait a few seconds then press the arrow button now that one might not work because it does not always work and the other on that I saw on google is: watch the video for a little bit at least 30-40 seconds after that pause it turn off ur internet on your laptop right when you do that turn it back on then press the refresh button then press the arrow button (that one does not always work nether) but good luck! and yes you might as well cheat and the grading for me is so damn slow to I did the exam and got a 76% on it but my grade is still 68.8% its so annoying
I am so sorry that you had to deal with this! My daughter is in the middle of this program now and we have both cried over the amount of work involved just to catch up. Hope you’re health has allowed for SOME normalcy for you. I know my daughter is looking forward to a return to in person next year as her health is improving.
This system SUCKS! I was in the spanish program and then swiched to a difrent elective and it is constently saying I’m behind. Well I am doing 3 trimesters work in one and I’m at 87 percent which my “teacher” is fine but every day when I open up the site theres this big red bar and it drives me insane.
I’m taking a computer class titled “Computer Applications 2” and it is driving me insane. Not only am I doing at least 10 assignments daily in this class alone (and if you know Edgenuity you know that one “assignment” is made of multiple parts, and in this class it’s typically between 15 and 25 of these parts, more or less) but the assignments are extremely outdated and difficult to answer. I’m unsure what the latest version of Microsoft is since there are different types of Microsoft (office, word, excel) but my class focuses solely on Microsoft 2010, over 10 years ago. This class takes up HOURS of my day, every day Monday through Friday, and occasionally on weekends, and I am learning absolutely NOTHING. I will never need to use Microsoft 2010 (there are multiple newer versions) and the so called “teacher” is so monotone and full of fake facial expressions that it makes it so extremely hard to listen to her, let alone retain any of the pointless information thrown my way. I cannot tell you the number of times I have heard her say the phrase “you have the ability to” I know it seems small, but after hearing it what feels like hundreds of times, they should change the name from “Microsoft” to “yOu HaVe tHe AbiLiTY tO”. It is very obviously scripted and meant to make money, not to actually teach kids. On top of all this I’m learning completely different things each day and can’t remember anything that has been taught to me. There are also these “Hands On Assignments” That consist of doing a long worksheet or making a long PowerPoint that can take two or more hours, just to do the other two or three hours of work for the rest of the assignments in this class. Since the information is so hard to retain and so much of it is thrown at you at once, with it expecting you to remember all of it, it is so hard to get even a B on all the assignments. I have such a bad grade in this class and there is nothing I can do about it. I read somewhere that edgenuity was originally made for students to use for a short period of time to help them catch up, but this absolutely does NOT work for any kind of long term schooling. I have zero contact with any of my real school teachers but since they are required by my district to do something with the remote kids they assign more assignments that add extra hours to something that already fills my whole day almost every day. I wake up in the morning, start school, have a quick lunch hours later, do more school, have a quick dinner, and do more school until I go to sleep. I am so stressed and I feel like I’m dying inside. There isn’t even time for me to take a shower in the morning which is beyond not okay. This platform is absolutely HORRENDOUS and people think I’m exaggerating. I’m not. If you see this please do not buy Edgenuity. This is one of the worst things you can do for learning and it is just a waste of money. I know I only complained about my computer class, but the others are almost just as bad.
UPDATE: I got 24% on my cumulative exam, and I failed the class with a 58.8%.
ummm, wut? I got like 88’s to 90’s with brainly, quizlet, and most importantly, my noggin and workaround tactics
1. spam keywords
2. brainly and quizlet
3. skip video 8 seconds ahead of time
4. open a bunch of study tabs from quizzes for quizzes, tests, and exams
5. Use tutoring help with tip #4 on quizzes, tests, and exams
6. copy/paste vocab
7: DO NOT USE ENOTES(if possible)
Yo lol it isn’t easy at all. Have sympathy for Riley.
Yes, i feel this. I’m taking enrichment summer school and we were promised that we would be using pencil and paper if we went in person. We were lied to. Our algebra classes have us do anywhere from 8-15 assignments in one day. Also none of it we’re going to use because its all baby 5th grade stuff and if we don’t pass the class we have to take two extra credits in math in order to make it up. Not only is it a waste of time, but the entirety of the summer school work we’re fed could be finished in just a few days versus 4 WEEKS. However, thankfully our school has heard our outcries and says they’ll find another way to do things when the year begins again.
I’m a professor at the University of Southern California. For the past six weeks I have been helping my nephew who is very I’ll and has surgery scheduled for Monday! I feel your pain! This is the worst teaching platform of all time. We even got a 60 on a pre test in English Comp; that’s because there were no right answers! The projects take about 10 hours a piece if you do them well. Don’t give up! Your real teachers at school have the ability to modify the course, so that you don’t have to do as much. Maybe your parents can ask the teacher. My nephew’s classes were modified to 32-35 hours total. It still took us way longer to do them, but at least the stated 32-35 hours makes it seem doable. Hang in there!
Agree, my granddaughter is taking Chemistry on Edgenuity due to health issues. It’s has been a nightmare. She has pleaded with the supervising teacher but I don’t think they understand how awful it is. Constant work, labs, reports and lessons, quizzes, tests, and she feels like she gets nowhere. Very frustrating for her and obviously many others.
im really freaked out. i have 3 edgenuity classes to do in the summer for summer school and ive heard it was hard.. not bad like this … im really freaked out now…
Scroll down and read my comment, it might help a little bit lol (basically just google all the questions)
What I did to pass my edgenuity classes was I muted the “teacher” and watched random videos in another tab instead! (Most of what I was “learning” I was taught years ago in middle school so it didn’t matter anyway) and whenever I needed a paragraph or essay and whatnot I ctrl+c into google and I find a quizlet or brainly with all the answers (thank you other kids in the internet!) so I didn’t learn anything at all from edgenuity but I did watch a lot of Netflix documentaries lol. So I got smart in other things that I was interested in, and in that respect I liked edg, because it didn’t matter what I did on there and while I sat through their boring videos I watched entertaining and informational videos, and taught myself piano so who knows. 😂😂
Okay, I’m taking edguinuity this year because my school said that this program would “help” me graduate early and I really want to graduate and I’m worried because the videos and everything does not help. And I thought about cheating, but I’ve been looking into edguinuity and for the cumulative exam it says that your computer gets monitored and that they check what you’re doing at all times so if they think you’re cheating they give you a zero. Is that true? Or does the system just no care. I’m not one to cheat but I’m desperate I want to graduate and not be behind but when you have 5 assignments that take half an hour each its very stressful
little late but Im sure they don’t record you
Just to anyone who has gotten down around this point, you should all be aware that taking notes is one of the keys to success on Edge.
So what you learned something already from middle school! At some point there will be something you haven’t. I have done the same things as you myself, but not from the beginning.
In the beginning of Edge, it was really easy. I was always a techy person. Half way through the year it became very stressful and I stopped taking this learning program seriously.
I started cheating on my classes, and the next thing you know I cheated for the next year. You cheat once, but can’t stop. You won’t learn anything. If anything, I suggest you listen and take notes on Math.
I always have something to take notes on, don’t use E-Notes since it glitches when saving at some points, and when assignments, quizzes, or tests come up, I use those notes for them. I’m telling you, you should never refer to questions to current things in our world now.
That is why you should pay attention. But also, maybe some schools cannot afford to use another program, or that is all they can work with. After working on Edge for about 2 of my first High school years, it gets really REALLY boring.
Yes, it does get stressful, but you just gotta hang on there. Whenever a new Semester hits, New year, or new classes come in then get started on those assignments. You’ll be ahead and less behind.
The red bar shouldn’t scare you, unless you got strict parents. Just wake up early. I get up around 7:45 am, get ready and stuff, finish eating by 8:30 am and sit down and do my work.
I finish average 2:00 pm, but if later then that means I was distracted. Even till this day I have been using Brainly, not learning anything, and I’m returning to school next year. I know because I have not been learning much, I will be behind.
My habit of cheating will continue and I only have 5 and a half weeks left of my online schooling. I could have broken out of it way early.
The reason why kids cheat is because it gets stressful and it overpacks and just builds over. Not to mention, P.E. is also a pain. After this Edge thing, I have not been doing exercise. So I’m in bad shape.
Spanish classes work really well, but computer applications can be quite confusing and frustrating. When hands-on assignments come on, you just gotta do what you can. Talk with your teacher, leave in some notes about how you tried to do what you could.
All of this negative, I have been warned fairly, is not as bad as you think. Don’t stress out on this. The key to passing through Edge is just taking Notes.
Lastly, videos are actually time based. If you watch a video and just leave to the course, if you wait for the amount of time the video is, you can just skim through it and take all the notes.
Make what you can of it, it isn’t easy, but I was able to do it in the beginning, so you can do it as well. If anything, forget about Discord, YouTube, Reddit, and any other social media you use and just crack down on it.
Oh, and the whole REACH and Edge thing is just bias. The person who wrote this article hated Edge because their kid failed to adapt to the change and to take the hint that each videos information lets you progress through the assignments easily.
VERY LAST THING: This is a tip. Instructions, Warm-ups, and video related ones (that are not counting towards your grades) you can just spam the “Done” button so that it goes by quickly. However, I wouldn’t recommend it since it is based on your understanding.
Edgenuity is terrible at the beginning of the year it never show my progress form the beginning of September al the way to CHRISTMAS also I was basically 2 and a halve months behind on all 8 classes! And then I got issues where it would say I’m done with the activity but it would not let me go to the next activity! Edgenuity is so bad schools should never use this program
Hmmmm….something doesn’t ring right here. Edgenuity teacher here….I watch progress not just on a daily basis but on an hourly basis.
the amount of times my teacher has finished talking with her pERkY sMiLE and looks to the side like “._.” honestly it’s so bad… like today I started one of the unit things we have every day and she goes “yOU jUsT cAMe fRom WAtChiNG tHIs vIDeO” and im like.. girl?? what video?? honestly it’s so poorly put together and written. I just wanna curl up into a ball and sleep for 200 years.
also, if you play the video for a few seconds, pause it, and look away (watch YouTube or something else) you can come back and skip the video. Even if you don’t understand the answers, its all on brainly or quizlet anyways, so whats the point?
I completely understand your frustration! I graduated in 2020, and because of the lockdown, 75 percent of my work was done on that heap of garbage. The English, Math Models, and US Government courses were okay, but the Earth Science, Art, and Sociology courses went by super slowly. It’s sad that schools have to pay for these awful classes out of necessity.
My 7 year old Son and I just started using edgenuity for my Sons 2nd grade year. This app is the most ridiculously stressful app we have used for “learning”, EVER. 3 days in and we have only figured out how to complete two assignments. My Son has asthma so I opted to not have him in person with the Delta virus becoming an issue so we are doing home learning. If you are not tech savvy it is a horrible program to try and use. My Son and I are literally stressed out over this. It is hard to figure out not only how to do any actual learning assignments but to also turn them in to the teacher. It wants you to add assignments to a folder every day and figure out how to submit them to the child’s teacher. You can’t just find assignments, open them, do them and click to submit completed assignments. Nope. Last year he was in distance learning. Packets, workbooks, apps like smarty ants, etc. we’re what they used and he did great. I will end up calling the school district to beg them to change the edgenuity program to something that will help him thrive. This program is spirit crushing , frustrating, confusing and just plain horrible. It is so stressful that I am awake at 3:30 am writing this comment.
I am a student and I HATE Edgenuity so much! It is incredibly stressful and the people teaching over-complicate the material, especially for Math and Science! I am always so close to tears while doing Edgenuity. Edgenuity is one of the worst education platforms and even my teachers agree that Edgenuity is terrible. I am lucky that they try to use google classroom as much as possible instead of Edgenuity. Overall, I would NOT recommend Edgenuity and I feel bad for anyone else who has been forced to use it.
We had a great experience doing preschool zoom last year. Today was our first day of Edgenuity kinder and wow it was horrible. We had 30 min of virtual and the start was weird cause we could only see the teacher & 3 other student tiles. Our video box was a tiny thumbnail box so my son was distressed cause he wanted his box larger like a zoom gallery view. The teacher apologized cause that’s the best their program can do and said it’s not as great as zoom. It didn’t feel like a classroom. I like the colorful activity pages but it was slow to get through simple tasks. I wish we had workbooks so I could look ahead and lesson plan. I’m afraid he’s going to hate school and learning if we stick with this program.
speak for y’all selves if you don’t like it gtfo its better than my pos school
I’m sorry your school sucks, but Edgenuity isn’t the only platform for online learning. Some kids want to actually learn, Edgenuity doesn’t promote that.
Maybe that doesn’t bother you, but some kids want to learn.
Janet actually there is a lot more online learning website that students could use then edgenuity. And your right kids do want to learn, but in school. Egenuity didn’t teach me anything but rushing all my assignments. I pay attention to the videos but the assignments and quiz don’t show the same thing what the teacher tough in the video.
I have NEVER hated online learning until Edgenuity! My son is using it now and a mix up caused him to not get his login at school for the first two weeks, then he was MASSIVELY BEHIND. The “principal” of the online school emailed me about his progress and I told him to KICK F-ing ROCKS.
While he struggled to get back to”on target” his art teacher emailed me about his lack of progress in her class, which he is PASSING, during FALL BREAK. I lit her up too. It is gloves off with these people all the way:
And THE VIDEOS…my god they are awful. We turn the sound down.
My mom really thinks I’m the reason I’m behind I joined half way through the year and got over 250+ assignments assigned to me on my first day on there, it’s been a month and now I’m getting threatened to get kicked off because I’m not passing when I didn’t even start off normally. Now I have funerals to go to and they say I’ll be kicked out January 15th if I dont get passing by then. And my moms completely supporting it and making me do hours a day just to try to get caught up. But it’s not going to happen and I know it. Never will I ever complain about going to school again
I hate edgenuity so much. I feel like the reason that teachers use this is because there lazy to teach students, so instead they let edgenuity do the work for them. This program makes me want to rush every work they gave me. But if I rush then I would get a low grade on assignment or quiz or whatever this website has. I agree that Egenuity should be band. The teacher in the videos don’t teach you as much. There is not enough practice for a lesson. Egenuity feels like a nightmare, I literally had nightmare from this because I was afraid about what would my parent think about my grades. I am so close to graduating high school and Egenuity is ruining it for me. I really wish I was in school. At least school give you enough time to work. Egenuity is just thinks we’re machine.
I am in middle school and the videos are soooo flipping boring. I have a tooter and SHE said tht it sucks!
The way it teaches Spanish is odd. It taught me how to say “is”, but not “was” for some odd reason. It also doesn’t have a lesson on apical-alveolar trilling. Can’t you teach the high-frequency words first BEFORE going to nouns and crap? The second unit teaches school words RIGHT after unit one teaches greetings. Out of all 32 sections, I don’t see where we learn about forms of words. I know want, but where are wantED, wantING, wantS, will want?
There is a glitch were if you are watching a video, you can press the home button then go back into the course, then they will let you move freely throughout the video.
I was in the hospital for 2 weeks and had no access to schoolwork. I have a 504 plan, but they can’t even accommodate anything for me because you HAVE to do EVERY little thing. The only thing my advisor tells me is just “you’ll get through it.” But it’s really stressful because now I’m way behind and I have no idea how to find the time and energy to complete all the hours I missed PLUS what they are adding on every day. They say this platform is so flexible, but what about the kids who have to miss school sometimes for medical reasons??? Definitely not flexible. I completely agree that this is a horrible platform.
As someone in edgunity, it truly does suck. If you get switched half way through the year, every assignment they’ve had since the beginning of the year will be assigned all at once, I have a month to catch up on the 300+ assignment before they kick me off January 15, I’ve got funerals to attend to this month and to celebrate Christmas. They really want you to only focus on edgenuity not to mention they tell you 1 hour each class. That’s a good 6 hours of school work after getting off the computer. I do schoolwork at home due to my body, and edgenuity just spiked all of my suicidal tendencies and the thoughts
There are so many fundamental problems with this god-awful website that I couldn’t list all of them in a comment on an article. I am in high school, and I was forced by my typically in-person school to switch to Edgenuity due to Covid-19, and it is unbearable.
Problem 1: The Teachers
I don’t want to say that the teachers are horrible, because most of them aren’t, but they don’t exactly seem to be qualified to teach. Most of the “instructors,” as they call themselves, are reading off of a poorly written script that also probably was not written by a teacher. The worst teaching I think I’ve received is in math class. No matter who it is that’s narrating the videos, I often find myself confused as to what I’m supposed to be learning or how anything works (I was formerly a straight-A student, barely ever scoring below a 90 in math). Quite often, minor details are overly explained to me as if I’m in elementary school (or even lower), and fundamental things I need to know to answer the problems are briefly explained once, and then never further explained again.
Problem 2: Glitches and Algorithm Determined Written-Response Answers
There are so many minor and major bugs that sabotage grades and are just plain annoying. Sometimes answers are marked as wrong when they’re right, sometimes you get kicked out of the website for no reason and then have to restart whatever it is you’re working on. Other times grades will just randomly drop without any reason. Also, as mentioned in the review, written-response answers are graded using keywords that are sometimes hard to identify. I’ve given up on actually answering the questions, and instead just filling up my response with meaningless keywords.
Problem 3: Pacing and Variety
The pacing of Edgenuity is probably the largest problem it has. The pacing is like this: Watch a bunch of unskippable boring videos one day, answer questions and take a quiz on it thee next day. Then move on to something entirely different. On Monday you might be learning about cells in science, and by Friday you’re learning about tectonic plate patterns. On top of that, there is ZERO variety in assignments. Watch videos, answer questions, take a quiz, repeat. Again, and again, and again. The amount of information thrown at you in such short periods of time is impossible to comprehend without taking hundreds of notes or re-watching the already too long video. There is a huge lack of variation in assignments and an overwhelming amount of variation in material. If you inevitably fall behind, things only get worse. Now you have to do double the work every day, meaning you’re learning multiple separate topics in one day, and then forced to take tests and quizzes on unfamiliar and underexplained topics.
There are many other problems with Edgenuity, but those are some of the largest issues that make Edgenuity one of, if not the worst online learning platforms.
One thing I forgot to mention is the subjective answers. In ELA, half of the questions I have gotten on quizzes and tests were subjective questions, and they only had one right answer.
Where do I start? I am on the platform right now, and the videos are on mute like they usually are. Let me walk you through a typical day on Edgenuity. I wake up at around 11-12 brush my teeth and wash my face etc. I get on the platform and I immediately put the video on mute and watch YouTube, go on TikTok, or go on instagram. Why do I do this? Well because when I attempted to learn on this god awful website, I didn’t learn or retain anything. They read off of a horribly written script, get choked up on their words, apologize, and give horrible teaching. It’s so pathetic. I also have the comfort in knowing that the answers will be on Brainly/quizlet. I am passing all my classes with high A’s.. only because of these websites. Don’t let me get started on Spanish. It’s literally playing “games” (making sentences and jeopardy) on different Spanish topics. No teaching or even videos, its disgustingly hard review work that’s disguised as “games”. Then catch this, your quiz… is on a whole other topic. You will be learning about nature words and your quiz will be “quiz on Colombia”. Like What? Or the quiz would be 25 question “Nature quiz” and it has 8 nature vocab words and the rest are making Spanish sentences. It’s pathetic. The geometry course is trash and super stressful. Physics and American Lit courses are OK because the answers are online. But with the American Lit, for obviously subjective constructive responses, they mark you wrong. HELLO?? You asked the question as if the answer was an opinion and it’s marked wrong. Overall, horrible “learning” platform. I can tell you most subjects I did, but I can’t tell you a single thing about it. I’m usually motivated to learn but this sucks all of the motivation right out of you. Plus, the websites UI looks like it was made in 2007. I learned more on a YouTube podcast than any subject on here.
Students are learning nothing but hatred of Edgenuity. Most students are failing – not because of their fault, but the tests and quizzes don’t include what was taught. Dull, dry, boring, not engaging. Students hate it, their teachers hate it, parents hate it. How much where people paid to make false positive reviews? No way anyone could give more than a 1-star rating.
Edgenuity in my opinion, it has too many teacher that talk way too much like in ELA, math ,science but then in social studies/history it has like one video and question that i didn’t hear nothing about so i use google edgenunity probably would better if in classes it takes to much in it talked less i don’t get why before you do a assignment it has t talk and then when answer the question wrong and after you answered the question on every question every assignment they need less taking in classes like that and a equal amount after removing unneeded taking in class they don’t talk enough in/don’t give enough info in another/main thing i don’t like in edgenuity besides the talking is the fact they teach improper grammar they say saying “they” is incorrect and saying “She/He” is correct
Somethings that are helpful on google a definitely Brainly, Quizlet, Quizzes and a calculator they i like cause it is helpful and you can do a lot is Calculatorsoup i used to use brainly and calculatorsoup but i can’t now because of the school i go to they can cotrol the laptop i use cause it is a school laptop
Also another thing about edgenuity you can skip videos idk(i don’t know) if it work for all videos but once a video get to a certain point if you click the button to go the the next thing you can go to the next thing without watching the whole video
I can honestly relate to most things in this article. I am in 7th grade and only do Math and Reading. Guess what both of the courses are. BAD. The videos go so slowly and all the material used are things that I learned from 4th-5th grade.
I can honestly relate to most things in this article. I am in 7th grade and only do Math and Reading. Guess what both of the courses are. BAD. The videos go so slowly and all the material used are things that I learned from 4th-5th grade.
I was “watching” my Edgenuity videos while reading this and it’s 100% accurate in my personal experience I almost finished an entire end of term maths test (i really struggle with math) and then right before I answered the last question the ENTIER system shut down so I was behind because of the soft wear (note I’ve been bullied and beat up in in-person schools yet I would rather experience that every day I’m alive then have to do one more day of Edgenuity ) also if your really struggling on a test copy and paste each question google it and most answers that pop up are from students who understand it and give you the answers and explain how to do it so you can just read how to do things like math how Edgenuity wants you to do it and if your doing it on a computer that everything is blocked you can still get the answers just not the explanation plus even with Edgenuity being behind you’ll still get at least a 75
Edgenuity is sooo bad I hate it and there was one question saying what is 3×5 as an example I said 15 and they said wrong it is 16
yeah, bro. Edgenuity sucks. I went from doing epic online to doing this stuff. i joined 2 months behind, and on top of that. there was so much work to do. they added like 4 classes when I only had 2 like 1 month in. and now I’m in the next semester. I keep having glitches with Spanish class. but now I’m super behind. not to mention I can do like 10 assignments and it goes up by 2 percent. and I got other classes to do also. and I’m really not even getting any help with world history. because they won’t turn on the protests. even though I’m super behind. and I guess my mother is getting these automatic messages they aren’t even accurate to what I’m doing. I just wish they could help me pass the 10th grade. I’m getting yelled at cause I gotta put in 12-hour shifts to pass. I hate covid for ruining my life. I don’t even think ill graduate. I’m sitting here at 6:36 halfway into my summertime cause I can’t get any assistance. and I’m getting yelled at. I just wanna graduate. I’m sitting here. crying and talking to the tutors for some easy fucking questions i know i can do. i just needed some comfort. i might not even pass. because this online school is so stressful. I’ve never cried as much as i have today. then the tutor just said she can only help with 2 questions. I’m so done with this online school.
same, this site is terrible, the least I ever got before I started this was a C for English without reading the coursework. now if I get one problem wrong I get sixty percent on obscure quizzes that have five problems. and they still don’t say what the right answer was, just that my answer was wrong. i am also supposed to be doing edgenuity right now.
and plus then when you understand what the questions asking or when you get it wrong, the voice never shuts the fuck up, like just let me answer the question holy hell
However i did find that most of my questions on the practice and tests are just copied from quizlet so way to go for them to plagiarize, how unoriginal of them
edgenuity has to be the worst flaming dumpster fire I’ve ever seen, i was rly depressed during last school year (doing better now tho) and i have to take summer classes, imagine my surprise when i log on and see that i have over 200 assignments to do during a span of 2 weeks, i told my mother ands shes on the side of the school, the work is due on the 30th and its the 27th, i dont care anymore, i do as many as my brain can handle, and as soon as i get stressed, i quit and go to bed, anyways please pray for my well being, because I’m genuinely thinking about contacting the district
I could not agree with this more. I switched to homeschooling with Bridgeway Academy, which uses Edgenuity, this past November and had to restart the year completely. I have never before been so stressed by a “school/learning platform” if you can even call it that.
My first week or so was slow, it wasn’t too bad, but I quickly found myself getting more and more stressed. Nearly every day, I would start school at 9:00 and end at around 6-7:00. My parents were upset that I was doing school for so long, but they also wanted me to maintain my grades. Most of the time I spent on the platform was taking notes so that I could retain even a semblance of the information the “teachers” expected us to learn from them.
Not to mention how the ever-changing “teachers” would always throw me off. When you go to a class, you generally know what to expect cause you know your teacher and their teaching style. On Edge, I would have to try to adapt to each new “teacher” every day. Some spoke incredibly fast, way too fast to catch any actual information. While others spoke at a regular pace but would just randomly stop at times for fifteen unskippable seconds. Most of them spoke very monotonously and were always very clearly reading from a script. It was very clear that they were just doing it for the little money they were offered.
Of course, because I restarted the year so late, I’m still stuck doing the work. So, in order to get my transcripts to move to a different school, I’ve been needing to do about a week’s worth of school (by their standards) every day. This has taken anywhere from 10-18 hours of my day.
To make matters worse, it’s impossible to miss any school because, unlike with regular school, the rest of the class doesn’t just move on without you so you can just pick up, do your assignments and move on. Instead, you have to go through the entire lesson, assignments, and quiz before you move on to break your brain trying to catch up. So, when I got COVID earlier this week, I wasn’t able to take a break to get better, I just had to do school anyway and make peace with the fact that I would fail everything that came my way.
So yeah, if anyone who isn’t already using Edge reads this:
Find a different program. For both your and your child’s sake.
not gunna lie everything that other people said 1-2 years ago still apply to edgenuity. out dated, boring, to many assignment, me reading this will do my assignments. it all a bunch of bs. i hate this site.
Can I change to another online learning that my school district does not recommend. Edgenuity is very out-dated and their mentors are often do not understand basics of the subject.
Which other online platforms could s=we switch too?
I actually like edginuity opposed to other platforms because its super easy and im really busy during the day, im 14 and I got expelled from school so im stuck doing online for a while. im able to make money and go to work and still stay on top of my grades
Try to guess what the menu items are. BAD. The videos move painfully slowly, and they only use information I studied in fourth and fifth grade.
はい、I am also an A student but this damn website and its strange mechanics pushed me down to B. It honestly sounds petty and dumb but I went from 108% in math at public school (extra credit stuff (don’t judge!!) ) to 87% with Edge!
I’m not sure what makes Edgenuity the worst learning platform, but I’m definitely not going to be using it.
my teacher doesn’t teach it to us we have to sit here and try to learn by ourselves using this terrible website.what makes it worse is it is a second language we are trying to learn.
i absolutely agree, as someone who used the platform during middle school. I was a straight A student but ended up barely passing. The videos are long, the material is barely interesting, and the notes you write on the site never save. For me personally, I need to be able to interact with my learning material, and I could not learn a single thing, ESPECIALLY because I couldn’t have questions answered! I was very disappointed with this program! 🙁
Edgenuity is actually one of the most horrible apps that my district ever implied. It is mostly outdated, the videos that are UNSKIPPABLE are totally excruciating and unengaging. There is no new pattern more like a boring cycle, listen to a 5-minute boring video, answer questions, watch another video, answer questions, quiz, unit test, and then test again. It is horrible and the teaching style is so unbearable. Some kids learn faster than others, and how horribly slow Edgenuity is making me so angry. I read at a faster pace than the video and have to wait MINUTES before I can even skip the video, which is ridiculous. I have to listen to some man/woman talk before I can even answer a question when I already KNOW the answer, or am eager to answer so I have to wait a while to even answer them.
Helping a granddaughter with her virtual classes from graves county Kentucky we found that every time the answers were incorrect in their curriculum so in challenging them we could not get anyone from their customer service to answer us back. There was no real person for feedback nor would they change her grade after we challenged their tests. It was really the most pathetic Virtual School that anyone could have acquired. I hope the school did not waste their time on it after covid. I think this program should have reimbursed everyone for their money if they paid any
As someone who used edgenuity in 2020 and is using it again this year, I can confirm they still haven’t changed their platform and it’s just as horrible as before. I’m currently reading this while my edgenuity isn’t working and I’m dreading all the catching up I’ll have to do when it finally gets fixed. The instructions Tech support gave me were barely helpful and didn’t work either. How has it been 4 years and yet nothing has improved? Utterly ridiculous.
read this whole article, along with all the comments, and typed this out and the video on my e2020 is still not finished playing.