A photograph of the Epic Charter Schools team

How Epic Charter Schools are building their own curriculum with Genially

Epic Charter Schools is an education provider in Oklahoma delivering blended learning to over 23,000 students from Pre-K through to 10th Grade. Discover how Epic’s Curriculum Design Team use Genially to create engaging materials that allow students to study remotely, without setting foot inside a classroom.

EPIC’s team of genius Curriculum Designers:


“We design all the lessons, activities, rubrics, assessments and videos that students see every day.”

Heather Anderson, from Epic Charter Schools

I remember creating that initial escape room and just being awed at the fact that when students hover their mouse a little box pops up… I could never have done that with a Google Slide.

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Heather Anderson

Instructional Designer

“It's really the difference between passive and active learning”

Aubrey Owen, from Epic Charter Schools

We want students to be engaged in learning and remember it not only an hour later, but maybe months or years later.

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Aubrey Owen

Curriculum Design Team Lead

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Epic Ed: a custom-built curriculum

Designing unique and memorable materials is part of a project to construct a branded curriculum: Epic Ed. The team started out curating resources but have steadily moved to a place “where we own 100 percent of the content,” explains Aubrey.

 

“This past year we really have created the majority of our resources and so being able to use Genially we were able to customize exactly what we want the students to see, to embed our videos, but also add that epic branding.”

“Being able to add our branding is just next level”

Interactive Images

The Epic Ed team are fans of interactive images because they can share lots of information in one single resource. “I feel like we lose students whenever they have to click next, next, but if we can put all the information on one visual we can have them click around and explore the space.”

 

Heather points out that interactive images are great for multimodal student projects. In ELA, she often asks students to create interactive images or infographics based on a scene from a book or play.

 

The EPIC team created this genially to bring Shakespeare’s world to life and help students visualize the relationships between characters.

Building creative and unique resources

The Epic team combine EdTech tools in ingenious ways. Heather embedded Flip videos in Genially to create this incredible escape room with AI-generated graphics from D-ID, Heygen, and Midjourney. 

 

Students watch interviews with an uncannily realistic Shakespeare and find hidden artifacts to complete the challenge.

“I'm loving how versatile Genially is that I can bring in these AI tools and utilize them in interactive ways”

“The ability to create anything and everything that you want … it’s worked beautifully for our team”