Welcome to eAcademy! Below are the important items that you need in order to begin an online course through eAcademy. 

Program Commitments

Students often sign up for eAcademy with little knowledge of time commitment, course structure, program requirements, and more. We have extensive information on this site about how our program works if students need to obtain a clearer understanding of the commitment they are accepting. Click here to read more.

Watch The Startup Video

All students are required to watch the eAcademy startup video by the deadline (found in your email) using the link below, to learn about program procedures and expectations, the required orientation, etc. The video is about 37 minutes long and must be watched in advance of your course Zoom startup meeting. Parents are also encouraged to watch the video with their students, or individually. The video will highlight the required Orientation tasks and will provide the URL to access the required Orientation; you can only get the URL by watching the video. You should have a notepad handy to write down reminders for yourself.

Click here to watch the eAcademy Startup Video Note that it might take a moment to load. After watching the video, return to this page to continue reading.

Moodle Login

eAcademy is now located in a new Moodle. All students have a Moodle login, but it has changed from the prior format. There are login instructions in the Orientation and on the login page. Click here if you want to access our new Moodle now.

If your Moodle login is not working, your network password has expired and should be reset while on the district network at a district building. Your new network password will then work for Moodle, student Google Mail, ClassLink, StudentVue, and other accounts. You CANNOT reset your password from the Moodle page. Click here for instructions to reset your network password.

Access Moodle on a computer using Firefox or Chrome. Do not use any other browser; do not attempt to work on an iPad or phone.
Click here to see the Moodle help page if you have Moodle issues.

Access Your Course

Remember, you will not see your eAcademy courses in Moodle until the eAcademy staff assigns your course. When it's active, click into the course to see announcements from your instructor, the syllabus, due dates, and all your course work. Remember, your course is not self-paced and there is a strict calendar of due dates that you must meet; be on time. 

Books

Texts in some courses are PDF, stored in our OneDrive account. If you get a message that says you do not have access just log in to your OneDrive or Office account and that should allow you to access and open the PDF file.

PE Students' Details

• You will receive instructions for pickup of your Polar heart monitor. In the summer that will be at the Instructional Resource Center (14090 Black Bob Road). During the school year your monitor may be delivered to your high school. If you do not get a monitor you cannot participate in the PE course. You cannot use your own. Get your Polar monitor set up and synced according to the instructions that you are given.
• Anyone who has not synced at least one workout by the deadline (see email) must attend the Zoom PE training. Links to the Zoom meetings will be in your startup email.
• Each PE student and one of his/her parents must sign a physical activity advisory when starting Module A of online PE. This means complete the form twice - parents complete once and students complete once. The link to the instructions can be found in your PE course in Moodle to complete this waiver online. You can also click here to access the instructions and complete the form now.The advisory does not have to be repeated for subsequent PE Modules.
• PE students are reminded that there are workouts to complete that will be uploaded into PolarFlow as well as text assignments in Moodle. Students taking Health will do those lessons in Edgenuity. It is critical that students attend to all components of the PE course to earn credit.
• Remember that all the startup information, help videos, and other Polar monitor documentation is in your Moodle course for reference throughout the semester if you need to review it again or lose your paper copies.

Health Students' Details

• Your coursework is in a program called Edgenuity. Health students will receive an email with general Edgenuity instructions and your Edgenuity login.
• This communication will be sent to your school Google email account. Please remember this is the email account you will always use. Email messages do not appear in StudentVUE.

Grading

eAcademy follows the Olathe Public Schools secondary grading guidelines. All courses are graded using the standard scale: 100-90% = A; 89-80% = B; 79-70% = C; 69-60% = D; an F will be transcribed for students who achieve below 60% or fail to complete their online course. School-year course drops may be allowed for serious family life events that would be considered hardship situations. Summer courses may be dropped at any time but with no fee refund.

Courses use online gradebooks (not in StudentVue) and that is where students will find assignment and assessment grades as well as any grading feedback from their instructor. Parents may view the gradebook and teacher feedback by having their student log into their course and show them the gradebook.

All students who are taking online courses in Moodle are required to complete an orientation to virtual learning. This Orientation is built into the eAcademy website as a mini-course and will take less than 90 minutes to complete. Because an orientation is required, students who do not complete the Orientation will be removed from the eAcademy program. If you previously completed the Orientation for another eAcademy course, you are required to do it again unless instructed otherwise. Since you have done it before, it will go quickly. Just speed-read through the information and take the quiz. Students who are taking more than one course, such as in summer, just complete the orientation one time.

There is no longer a parent component to the orientation, only the student component.

The Orientation is located in this site but not on a menu. You are required to watch the startup video. The URL to get to the Orientation is in the video. If you don't know how to get to the Orientation, then you haven't watched the startup video. The link to the startup video is above if you need to go back up and watch the video. Remember to write down the link for the Orientation.

The orientation contains updated plagiarism policy that covers the use of Chat GPT or other similar artificial intelligence applications. Students should review that section carefully.

Note for Health students: You will not complete this orientation for Health. There is an eight-minute video in Edgenuity that you will watch the first time you log in. However, if you have Health AND another class you WILL complete the orientation for the other class.

Finish reading this page. The last instruction sends you to the Orientation.

All students should clear their schedules to attend the required course startup Zoom meeting(s) to meet the course teacher(s) and get answers to your questions about the course. Zoom meetings are scheduled on the course start date. The link to access the Zoom meetings is provided in your startup email. If you have an emergency and cannot your session, email your instructor and they will communicate your options for catching up.

In summer, the sessions are repeated so that students with more than one course can attend more than one meeting. Attendance is required for each course you are enrolled in.

Students will use Zoom both for startup and cyclic meetings with their instructors. Parents may sit with their students to observe during a class Zoom but should not be on the computer as participants in the Zoom sessions.

The link to access the Zoom meetings is provided in your startup email.

You will now use the URL given only in the startup video, to access the hidden Orientation and complete it, then take the completion quiz (in Moodle) to show that you completed the orientation. If you haven't watched the startup video yet to learn how get to the orientation, scroll back up and click the video link and watch now. If you have the URL, you can type it in the browser bar now to continue and complete the orientation.