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. Read more about course structure.

Canvas Login And Course Access

eAcademy courses are located in Canvas. Use the ClassLink icon on your student computer to log in. If you are on a personal computer, click here to access ClassLink. You will find the instructions for logging into Canvas as you continue through the Orientation. Access Canvas on a computer using Firefox or Chrome. Do not use any other browser; do not attempt to work on an iPad or phone.

You will not see courses in Canvas until the eAcademy teachers activate courses. When they are active, click into the course to see announcements from your instructor, the syllabus, due dates, and all your coursework. Remember, your course is not self-paced and there is a strict calendar of due dates that you must meet; be on time. 

Textbooks

Texts in some courses are PDF, others are online, and some courses have no text. Your course will tell you how to get to your text if there is one.

Physical Education Students' Details 

(If you are not in PE you can skip this section.)

• 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 will be delivered to your high school. If you do not pick up your 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.
• Each physical education student and one of their parents must sign a physical activity advisory when starting online physical education. This means complete the form twice — parents complete once and students complete it once. The link to the instructions can be found in your physical education course in Moodle to complete this waiver online. You can also click here to access the instructions and complete the form now.
• Students are reminded that there are PE workouts to complete that will be uploaded into PolarFlow as well as PE text assignments in Canvas. Students taking the Health course will do those lessons in Edgenuity. It is critical that students complete all components to earn their full PE credit.
• Remember that all the startup information, help videos, and other Polar monitor documentation is in your Canvas 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. Use the ClassLink icon on your student computer to log in. If you are on a personal computer, click here to access ClassLink.
• All 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 recorded for students who achieve below 60% or fail to complete their online course. School-year course drops must occur by the end of first quarter in the fall and the end of third quarter in the spring. Summer courses may be dropped at any time but with no fee refund.

All courses use online gradebooks 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 online course gradebook.

All students who are taking online courses in Canvas 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.

The orientation includes an updated plagiarism policy that covers the use of ChatGPT 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 this orientation for the other class.

Finish reading this page. The last instruction sends you on 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 each course. If you have an emergency and cannot attend 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 for both startup and periodic meetings with their instructors. Parents may sit with their students to observe during a class Zoom but should not log in as participants in the Zoom sessions.

You will now go back up to the menu and continue on to the Orientation Introduction and go through the remaining web pages. Then take the completion quiz (in Moodle) to show that you completed the orientation.