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[quote=Anonymous]Our ADHD 504 kid took an Edmentum course this summer.  The student EF burden was unreasonable.  Our kid was taking the course by choice, but they had a terrible experience.

Our kid's course was broken down into modules, with mastery tests at the end of each one.  The modules did not contain videos so working through them was less like COVID online learning (live instruction or videos posted), and more like reading a textbook that contained a quiz at the end of each chapter, with the answers posted for the student to check.

There was a rough pacing guide offered, but I often disagreed with it plus the difficulty of the content varied, so time management and pacing was hard for our kid to do.

Our kid's course had a teacher who was warm and responsive, and it still took too long to resolve questions.  It takes a very organized, proactive and confident student to email the teacher every time they get stuck, and to know what question to ask.  Half the time our kid was stuck, it was due to having moved too quickly through the material (typical for ADHD, and Edmentum has some guardrails built in for this, but not enough) and several times, it was due to errors in the course materials.

If I were you, I'd ask the homebound teacher for multiple daily regular check-ins (video, not email).  Hope this helps.  [/quote]

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