Schoology for Teacher
By
Tajdidun Nisa, Naufal Akbar, Rafika Puspita Sari, Indriani Putri
Utami
Schoology is a Learning Management System (LMS) that allows
teachers to create, manage, and share content and resources. Its
services include class management, attendance records, online gradebooks, tests
and quizzes, and homework drop boxes. Schoology also includes a
social media interface that facilitates collaboration among a class, group, or
school. Native mobile applications for the program are available on
iOS, Android, and Kindle Devices. Lastly, Schoology integrates with
Google Drive to leverage the cloud storage services and document creation
capabilities of this platform. Schoology includes plenty of useful
features like a gradebook, attendance tracking, analytics, badges, calendar,
event creation, private messages, groups, and profile personalization.
Teachers can create specific courses that
students can join. Within those courses, you can then create folders and post
materials for students to access. If you are new to Schoology, this is a great
first step uploading is simple and enhances how you distribute materials to
your class. You and your students also can have online conversations (as a
requirement or purely casual) and post questions to one another through
Schoology’s discussion board. Similar to other platforms, you’re also able to
include attachments and links in each post.
Posting assignments to Schoology is a breeze you
can include its title, the details and requirements, attachments, and due date
on a calendar. You can even receive completed work via Schoology too. Grading
and annotating any student project is also supported, making Schoology a big
step towards going paperless. Create Requirements and Steps, in Schoology you can
organize each step and create restrictions so that students cannot go onto step
two until they complete step one (or achieve a specific score), and so on.
You can also create
quizzes or create assessments inside of Schoology itself. If you have a
multiple choice quiz, Schoology will grade it for you and provide a score
summary for your class. You can have multiple choice, true and false, short
answer, and matching questions. Seamless Integration, you can easily pull
external resources, like Google Drive, into Schoology to use, or you can push
documents from Schoology to other tools, like Turn It In.
To begin using Schoology, navigate to www.schoology.com to log in to your account. Enter your
Schoology credentials to get started. you can use your available email
from Gmail or Yahoo. Upon logging in, you
will arrive at the Schoology Home Page. This page will serve as your
hub as you navigate Schoology, manage your courses, participate in groups, and
interact with resources. Just like a social media site, Schoology allows you to
create a profile and upload a photo. To get started, click on one of
the "Edit Your Profile" option. From, here you can enter all of your
information, including basic information about yourself, your
interests/activities, and you best contact information. Once you
have completed your profile, you can click on your name in the top, right of
the screen to view your profile.
