I have a few mods that introduce new(-ish) spells that don't seem to reward experience points, and I dug into the Creation Kit to try to find out why. The only thing that seems to set these spells apart is that the "Casting Perk" field is set to "NONE." Is that what determines whether experience is given? If so, do different perk levels give different experience returns for non-damage and non-healing spells?

I'll probably test this later, but I'm curious now and have no patience, so I figured I'd tap the brains of the folks who probably already know this stuff. Speaking of which, is there a way in the console to determine an exact number for a specific skill's experience bar?

BTW, I did Google this, but the vast majority of the results I got were guides on leveling magic skills.

You need to have it tied to a particular school in the MGEF level, and also have Skill Usage Mult have a nonzero value also on the MGEF.