Learn about StrongMind Credit Recovery Courses.
Notes: Credit Recovery Courses were released in March 2024 for Canvas users only.
Some users have reported issues with rearraging course content. It is intended to be followed as prescribed.
Related Article: SY 23-24 New Adaptive Release Credit Recovery Courses, 9 - 12 Credit Recovery, Edit Passing Threshold settings
Credit Recovery Functionality:
- Typical core high school courses have 6 units (units 1-5 with new content, projects, and discussions, unit 6 with no projects or discussions to review previous content and a final exam.) Credit Recovery courses have 7-8 units, with the final two units being optional review/final exams and optional projects that were removed from within the course.
- Each course unit has a pretest. Passing the pretest of a unit will allow the student to move to the next pretest, so that students do not have to see content they have already mastered.
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The passing threshold set for all credit recovery courses defaults at 70% for the pretest.
- NOTE: If you use passing thresholds, this will override the passing thresholds of credit recovery courses, and can be manually adjusted.
- When the student passes, they will see a loading screen. This may take several minutes as it is waiting for all assignments in the unit to be excused and relies on sequence control to excuse each assignment. Once everything is excused it will refresh and pass them on to the next unit pretest.
- When a student passes the pretest of a unit, they will be excused from all assessments in the unit and they will not be required to take any assessments in the unit. The sequence control will be removed so a student can go back and review content in a unit in which they passed the pretest. Note that although students are excused from the assignments in the unit, the excused assessments can still be taken by the student and graded. The pretest will be the only grade for the unit unless students submit excused assignments.
- Pretests have only one attempt. Not meeting the minimum threshold for that unit will send students directly in to the unit content.
Passing Threshold Considerations:
- Users on their own Canvas: Pretest Requirements will be set visually to Submit. StrongMind Pretest logic of 70% will be applied behind the scenes. If the threshold is updated above a 70% but doesn’t meet the manually added threshold, the student will see Excused! but also see the note that the threshold was not met.
- Users on StrongMind Canvas who DO NOT use passing thresholds: Pretest Requirements will be set visually to Submit. StrongMind Pretest logic of 70% will be applied behind the scenes. If enabled, teachers can update the Passing Threshold at the course level using the SM tool. This will adjust pretest logic.
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Users on StrongMind Canvas who DO use passing thresholds: Pretest Requirements will be set visually to Score at Least ___. StrongMind pretest logic is overwritten by the Passing Threshold settings. If the student scores above a 70% (regardless of PT setting), the student will see Excused! but also see the note that the threshold was not met if they did not meet the pre-set Passing Threshold score.
Grading:
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Gradebook Category: The pretest score is included in the unit exam gradebook category. If the student passes the pretest then the unit exam is excused with no grade. If the student doesn't pass the pretest, the pretest is excused, and all other grades for that unit will be recorded in the gradebook, unless individually excused by the teacher. There is no grade penalty for the failed pretest.
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Excused Assignments: When a student passes a pretest, assessments within the unit are excused. These assignments will show as excused in the gradebook for both the teacher and the student.
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Graded Assignments: All assignments that the student must take, are added to the gradebook as regular grades and follow the default grade weighting of those categories. These would be assessments that the student takes because they did not pass the pretest and are sent through the unit content.