Physical Education Software for Colleges
eFit is kinesiology department software for universities and community colleges that run large activity sections. Students log workouts from the devices they already carry, eFit scores the work against your rubric, and you export a gradebook file for D2L, Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle. Faculty accounts are free and your institution pays no license fee. Student access is $59 per semester.
Across current eFit programs
Large Activity Sections Break Manual Grading
A kinesiology or HHP department can carry several hundred students across walking, conditioning, weight training, and lifetime fitness sections in a single term. Each of those students turns in weekly activity logs, two fitness assessments, and a set of reflection entries. Multiply that by fourteen or sixteen weeks and the arithmetic gets ugly fast.
The work that eats evenings is clerical: reading handwritten logs, retyping minutes into a spreadsheet, calculating assessment scores against age and gender norms, and chasing the students who forgot to submit. eFit takes over those four jobs. Faculty keep the judgment calls, the rubric, and the office-hours conversations.
- Weekly activity minutes scored automatically against your point scale
- No retyping from paper logs or email attachments into a spreadsheet
- Assessment scores calculated from age and gender norms
- Automated email reminders sent to students who fall behind
- One gradebook file per section when grades are due
Where the hours go in a large-enrollment term
Grade Exports for D2L, Canvas, Blackboard, and Moodle
Your gradebook of record stays where your registrar and your students expect it.
eFit produces a grade file already formatted for the system your campus runs. Select your LMS, choose the grade type, then download and import. That is the whole workflow, and it takes three clicks. Full support covers D2L Brightspace, Blackboard Learn in both Original and Ultra course views, Canvas from Instructure, Moodle 3.x and 4.x, Schoology from PowerSchool, and SAP Litmos.
You control what leaves the platform. Export weekly activity grades during the term, mid-term progress grades for early-alert reporting, fitness assessment scores on their own, a custom date range for an incomplete, or a combined activity and assessment grade at the end of the term. Details of every supported system are on the LMS integration page.
- Weekly activity grades
- Mid-term progress grades
- Final semester grades
- Custom date range exports
- Fitness assessment scores
- Combined activity and assessment grades
Fully supported systems
Running something else? Contact us and tell us which system your campus uses. We can likely support it.
What Your Students Actually Do Each Week
Completion rates hold up when logging takes seconds on a phone.
Activity syncs from their own devices
Fitbit is the recommended tracker, and eFit also works with Apple Watch, Samsung Galaxy Watch, Garmin, Xiaomi Mi Band, Fossil smartwatches, and anything that syncs with Google Health or Apple Health. Students with no wearable use a smartphone app. See activity tracking.
Assessments at two points in the term
Pushup test, one-minute crunch test, the Rockport 1-Mile Walk Test with VO2MAX calculated from time, heart rate, weight, age, and gender, plus BMI and optional weight. Details on the fitness assessment page.
Reflection through the PocketAI Journal
Activity courses that carry a writing or reflection requirement can use the PocketAI Journal for entries tied to what the student logged that week, which gives the reflection assignment something concrete to point at.
Personalized plans keep them coming back
AI-generated workouts with video demonstrations, meal plans with shopping lists, the Walking Journey with rewards, nutrition tracking, weight training logs, and an interactive eBook. Browse the full list on the features overview.
Assessment Evidence for Program Review
Department chairs get asked the same question every review cycle: show us that students in your activity courses improved. Anecdotes and a stack of paper logs make a thin appendix. eFit keeps the pre and post assessment record for every student in every section, so the evidence is already assembled when the self-study is due.
Each student has a beginning-of-term and end-of-term score for pushups, crunches, the 1-Mile Walk Test, VO2MAX, and BMI, with improvement reported in both absolute and percentage terms. Class-wide analytics roll those individuals up to the section level, and cross-term comparison lets you show the same course across several semesters. Assessment data exports to CSV for your own analysis or to PDF for the appendix.
See how assessments are scoredEvidence available per section
- Pre and post scores for every enrolled student
- Absolute and percentage improvement per measure
- Scoring against published age and gender norms
- Visual charts for individual and class progress
- Class-wide analytics for section-level outcomes
- Cross-term comparison for multi-year trends
- CSV or PDF export for the self-study appendix
Student records are handled under FERPA, encrypted with 256-bit SSL in transit and at rest.
What a Term on eFit Looks Like
Four moments where the platform does the work you would otherwise do by hand.
Setup week
Create the course, set your point scale and weekly minute targets, and post the student join instructions in your LMS. A first course takes about fifteen minutes. Onboarding support is free.
Weeks 1 and 2
Students connect a tracker or phone app and complete their baseline assessments. The analytics dashboard shows you who has joined and who still needs a nudge.
Midterm checkpoint
Export mid-term progress grades for early-alert reporting, review weekly minutes by section, and let automated reminders handle the students drifting toward a zero.
Finals week
Students complete post-assessments. You export combined activity and assessment grades, import the file into your gradebook, and keep the assessment record for program review.
Department Realities: Adjuncts and Academic Integrity
Onboarding part-time instructors
Activity courses are often staffed by adjuncts hired close to the start of the term, and a grading method that lives in one person's spreadsheet does poorly under that kind of turnover. eFit gives every section the same structure, so a new instructor inherits a working course setup and a defined point scale on day one.
Setting up a first course takes about fifteen minutes. Onboarding support costs nothing, and training webinars run every semester. Midwestern State University reached 100% faculty adoption across 15 course sections in its Kinesiology Department.
Ask about department onboardingSelf-reported activity and grade defensibility
Handwritten activity logs are the weakest link in a traditional activity course. A student fills in the whole page the night before it is due, and the instructor has no record to check it against.
eFit changes the source of the data. Activity syncs from a connected wearable or phone app and lands in the record dated as it happens, so the dashboard shows a day-by-day history for each student across the whole term. Pair that with the pre and post assessments you administer in class and the reflection entries in the PocketAI Journal, and a grade challenge has an audit trail behind it.
How activity tracking worksColleges Already Running eFit
Community colleges, four-year universities, and multi-campus systems.
Madison College
80% time saved, 40% more engagement, 500+ students per term.
“The eFit Software program has been a valuable tool for my activity component classes. The registration process, technical support, and the ability to have automated activity grading has been awesome.”
Lois Heeren, Physical Education Instructor
Lone Star College
1,200+ students per semester across 6 campuses in Houston, Texas.
“eFit allowed us to scale our online PE program while maintaining academic rigor across all campuses.”
St. Philip’s College
92% completion rate and a 4.5 out of 5 student rating in San Antonio, Texas.
“Our students love using their phones to track activity.”
Full write-ups for these programs, along with Midwestern State University, are in the case study library. You can also read implementation notes on the blog or learn more about eFit.
Try the Interactive DemoQuestions from Department Chairs
What faculty ask before the first pilot section.
Most departments take one of two paths. List eFit with your course materials so students buy an access code at the campus bookstore the same way they pay for their other course materials, or purchase seats in bulk on a single invoice or purchase order when the department covers student access. Bulk pricing is quoted per institution, so email sales@efit.software for a quote or for the listing details your bookstore needs. All three purchase channels are on the pricing page.
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