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Table of Contents:

1. Teacher Sign Up 2. Teacher Profiles 3. Create a Group

4. Manage Your Groups 5. Small Groups 6. Co-Teaching 7. Student Sign Up 8. Parent Accounts 9. Post a Message 10. Reply to a Message 11. Manage Your Messages 12. Assignments 13. Grading an Assignment 14. Gradebook 15. Settings 16. Calendar 17. Public Pages 18. Spotlight 19. Library 20. Mobile Web 21. Teacher Connections 22. Join Communities 23. Student Profiles 24. Student Badges

Teacher Sign Up

Need an account? Follow these steps:

Step 1: On the Edmodo.com start page, click the button “I’m a Teacher” to sign up for a free account.

Step 2: Complete the registration form by choosing a username and password. Then locate your school on Edmodo and create an initial group for your classroom.

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Teacher Profiles

Teacher profiles were developed to support you in creating your Edmodo Professional Learning Network (PLN). To complete your profile, fill in the following fields:

• About Me: Select the “edit about” button to complete the About me section of your profile. This is where you can share, in your own words, information about your life as an educator (i.e. Do you teach third grade and chair the Geography Bee? Are you a constructivist or a behaviorist? Do you blog or tweet?)

• Teaching Experience: This section displays your current school and previous schools you’ve worked at. Your school can be added from the settings section. Once your school is added, you can also indicate previous schools you’ve worked at by clicking on the “add previous school” button.

• DonorsChoose: If you have any Donors-Choose projects, highlight it by adding it to your profile. Learn more.

Teacher profiles also offer a dashboard view of all your Edmodo activities. As you begin to build your Edmodo PLN, watch your portfolio grow with the following stats:

• Students: Number of students in groups you have created or co-teach.

• Teacher Connections: Number of teacher you are connected with.

• Library Items: Number of items added directly to your library + Number of items added via “Add to Library” buttons

• Sharing Score: How often the resources you’ve shared are added to libraries and viewed by other users.

• Profile Completeness Progress Bar: The bar will show your progress as you complete your Teacher Profile, create groups, connect with educators and join edmodo subject and content communities.

Your profile page allows you to display your favorite content from your Edmodo library. To add content to your favorites tab, visit your library and move

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any items you want to share in your “favorites” tab to your Favorites folder.

Select “view my public profile” to see how your pro-file looks to other educators who view it.”

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Create a Group

Groups make it easy to communicate with select students and keep materials for a single classroom organized. Here’s how to create a new group:

Step 1: In the left-hand column of your homepage, click the “create” link.

Step 2: Give your group a name and complete the details of your group. It’s important to note the read-only check box below the group name field. This allows you to designate everyone that joins a group to join in read-only mode by default. If you leave this box unchecked, all group members will be able to post and reply within the group imme-diately upon joining.

Once your details are complete, click the “create” button and Edmodo will display a 6 digit group code, which will enable members to join your group. Your group will now appear in the left-hand navigation bar of your home page. .

Step 3: Invite students to join your group with the designated code.

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If any of your students already have an Edmodo account, they can join your group by logging in and clicking the “join” link in the left-hand navigation bar to enter the designated code.

Once a new member has joined your group, you will receive a notification in your “spotlight” section.

Note: It is best practice to lock or reset your group’s code after all students have joined so that no addi-tional users can use this code to gain access.

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Student Sign Up

To participate in an Edmodo group, students need to create their own account. We’ve simplified the process by not requiring students to enter an email address. Here’s how to sign up:

Step 1: Visit Edmodo.com and click on the student sign-up link.

Step 2: Enter the code provided by your teacher and complete the registration form.

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Post a Message

Have something to share? Publish your ideas, files, and homework from the post section, located at the top of your Edmodo homepage.

Typing directly into the text box allows you to share content with individuals, groups, or your entire network of teacher connections.

For teachers:

Choose note, alert, assignment, or poll by clicking on the corresponding link. For notes and assignments, you can attach files and links from your computer or Edmodo library. Any files or links you post will automatically be added to your library, so make sure to give your links good descriptions!

To post the content, type the name of a student, teacher, or group(s) into the “Send to” box. (Edmodo provides auto-suggestions.)

Quick tip: if you click in the box, and hit the down arrow, you’ll see some suggestions right away.

Here’s your full list of possible recipients:

1. <students> – any student in any of your groups

2. <teachers> – any teacher in any of your groups, including yourself; any teacher connection

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3. <groups> – any of your groups4. <yourself> – just type your name, and you

can post a message to yourself5. <communities> – any community that you

have joined6. support – if you need help or discover a pro-

blem, post here7. All Groups8. All Connections – post a message to all of

your teacher connections9. Everyone (All Groups and All Connections)

School and district subdomains only:

<school> (Everyone) – post a message to all teachers and all students in your school

<school> (Teachers and Admins) – post a message to all teachers in your school

District subdomains only:

<district> (Everyone) – post a message to all teachers and all students in your district

<district> (Teachers and Admins) – post a message to all teachers in your district

For students:

Post notes to your teachers and groups!

Just like teachers, you’ll be able to attach files and links from your computer or Edmodo library. Howe-ver, you won’t be able to post an alert, assignment, or poll.

You can post a message to the following people:

1. <teachers> – any teacher (group owner or co-teacher) in any of your groups

2. <groups> – any of your groups3. <yourself> – just type your name, and you

can post a message to yourself

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Reply to a Message

Want to be part of the conversation? Leave a com-ment to a published note by clicking the “Reply” button located below a message. Simply type your note in the message window, click reply, and see the message appear threaded below the original content.

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Manage Your Messages

Edit, delete, tag or print your messages with our simple tools for managing content.

First, after publishing a post, you can hover over the text to call up three blue icons in the upper right corner of the box.

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By clicking the first icon, X, teachers can delete group or student messages. Students can delete only their own messages.

By clicking the second icon, a pencil, teachers can add to or edit group or student messages. Stu-dents can edit only their own messages.

By clicking the third icon, a pop-up window, teachers and students can display the message in a separate window for easier viewing or printing.

Located underneath each published post in the mes-sage stream (adjacent to the time and date stamp), there are also blue-highlighted links that allow you to reply to, make public, tag, link to or add the post to your library.

Click reply to respond to a post. Students may also reply to posts.

By default, every published post is private to the sender and recipient. But the public link allows teachers to publish messages to the public time-line of a specific group, meaning that anyone can view its contents. To view the public timeline for a group, teachers must click the pencil icon in the

left sidebar next to the group and scroll down the list to select “public.”

Sort messages easily by creating personalized tags for any and all messages. Click the tag link to call up a drop-down box. Then type in a new or existing name to tag the message.

Each post also has a unique URL that you can use to link to it from within Edmodo or externally. To access this link, click the More link next to Tag and choose Link to this post.

You can also add a post to the library so that you can keep track of the most important discussions, examples, and ideas from your groups. To do this,

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click on the More link again and this time choose Add Post to Library.

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Manage Your Groups

Change passwords, add members to a group, or ar-chive an Edmodo group when the semester ends, all with our simple tools for managing your groups.

To start, find the desired group name in the left-hand navigation bar of your Edmodo home page, and then click it. The right-hand navigation will be replaced with all of the management options for your group.

• Group Code – The current group code will display in the right-hand navigation. To reset the code, click on the menu arrow next to the code and select Reset. To lock the code, choose Lock. Resetting the code will give you a new code for the group to give out. Locking will reset the group code but not reveal the code so that no one will be able to enter the group.

• Group Settings- On the settings page, tea-chers can rename a group, set all new mem-bers to read-only status,, change the group’s designated grade level and subject matter, and archive or delete the group entirely.

• Archive - Teachers can archive a group once the semester or class has ended, rendering the group inactive. If you want to reuse the name of the group for next semester, make sure to re-name the existing group before archi-ving it.

• Delete - You can delete the entire group as well, but please only use this if you really mean to.

• Manage – On the members page (located via the link below the member list cal-led Manage), teachers can view a list of

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students in the group. Teachers can view individual student gradebooks, change an individual passwords, remove a student from the group, or get the parent code for that child with the icons on the right side of the screen. The teacher can also set indivi-dual students to read-only mode within the group or set all members to read only via that link above the member list.

• Subscribe Group to Feed – Teachers can add an RSS feed, such as one from YouTube or Flickr, to automatically post video, photos or other content to a group. Select the Subs-cribe Group to Feed link from the group set-tings in the right naviagation to enter an RSS feed address. (Edmodo crawls and updates RSS feeds every three hours.)

• Public Page- Teachers (and anyone else with the link) can view the public timeline of a specific group if they have chosen to make any posts public to nonmembers. To access this page, click Public Page from the right-hand navigation. (Reminder: Every post is private by default.)

• Color Selector – To change the color of your

group, click on the color square next to the group name in the left navigation. This will bring up the Color Selector and you will be able to color code your groups.

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Assignments

For teachers, handing out and managing assign-ments is a breeze with Edmodo. Here’s how to post an assignment:

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In the post bubble, click on the “Assignment” from the options on the right.

The message window changes to allow you to fill out the parameters of the assignment, including:

1. Title2. Description3. Due date (set by clicking on the calendar

icon)4. Add Files, Links, or Items from the Library5. Send to (enter the name of a student, tea-

cher or group(s))

Click send.

You may also load a previously given assignment by clicking on the Load Assignment Button. This will auto-populate all of the assignment fields with the information already within Edmodo.

For students, turning in an assignment is just as simple. Once logged on to their member page, stu-dents can click on the “Turn-In” link located below the assignment post in the message stream. From this link, students can upload homework and leave a message. (Note: Replies left on an assignment post are viewable by the entire group.)

To help stay organized, you can filter your Edmodo stream by assignments. To do this, select the “more” drop down from the right hand panel (see below) and select assignments. From here you can further filter your assignments by “coming due” or “most recently posted” by choosing the appropriate filter from the top right corner of your stream.

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Grading an Assignment

Instantly see how many students have turned in as-signments by looking at the Spotlight section, located at the top of the right-hand column of your home page. Teachers can also view how many students have turned in homework for a particular assign-ment by looking at the number below the message window for that assignment.

By clicking on turned-in assignments within Spot-light, teachers can view a list of all homework that needs grading. Click a particular student’s assign-ment to download and review the document. Tea-chers give grades within the assignment page, and students are notified immediately when they have received a grade.

If a student needs to resubmit a class assignment for any reason, the teacher must delete the student’s existing assignment before he or she can upload a new file.

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Gradebook

To access the gradebook for a particular group, se-lect the “Grades” option from the top navigation bar. A drop down menu will appear with a list of all your groups. Select the group whose gradebook you would like to access.

For any assignment you post to your group, a co-lumn will be added in the gradebook. Once a stu-dent’s assignment has been graded, the grade will automatically populate in the gradebook. You can edit the grade directly from the gradebook, simply by placing your cursor on the grade. You can also view the assignment associated with the grade, by selecting the “see work” link (You must click on the grade first in order to see the link.)

Edmodo also allows you to add grades for assign-ments not posted through Edmodo. To add a grade, select the “Add grade” button at the top right corner of the gradebook page. Provide the title of the as-signment and the total number of points possible for that assignment.

To export grades into an Excel spreadsheet, select the “Export (CVS)” button at the top right corner of the Gradebook page. The spreadsheet will automa-tically download to your computer.

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Settings

Manage your profile, sign up to receive notifications, and control your privacy with our Settings feature, located in the upper right-hand corner of your home page. Here, you can:

1. User photo – Choose to upload a photo from your computer, or select from one of our stylized icons to represent your public image on Edmodo.

2. Personal information – Add to or edit your name, email address, and title.

3. Password – Change your password.4. School – Select a school to be associated

with or change your existing school. If you are within a subdomain, you will need the school code to switch to a different school.

5. NotificationMethod- Receive notifications of any type of Edmodo communication via email or text message . Simply click on the notifications drop-down menu to choose one of the following options:

• E-mail – We automatically select the ad-dress from your personal settings.

• Text messages – Enter your 10-digit phone number and select your current mobile provider. You will have to verify your phone number as well in order to enable text alerts.

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• NotificationType- Select the type of content you’d like to be notified of by chec-king the box next to one or more of these choices: Alerts, Links, Assignments, Direct Messages, Notes, Files, Events, or Replies

• Privacy – Teachers may choose to block connection requests or show their profile only to their personal network by checking a box under privacy settings in the lower right-hand section of the page.

• Everything Stream – Select which com-munities or connections to show in your stream. Note- This option only appears if you have hidden a community or connec-tion by clicking the X in the upper left-hand corner of a post.

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Calendar

Share events with your classroom and view assi-gnments by the month with the Edmodo calendar.

1. Select the Calendar view from the top of your Edmodo home page.

2. Teachers can add an event by clicking on a desired day and then by describing the activity. Send event details to an individual student, group or teacher to have the event

show up in their calendar view.3. To remove an activity you’ve created, click

on the event and hit the delete button.

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Public Pages

Each group you create includes a public page that’s accessible by highlighting (hovering over) the group name and selecting the public link within the drop-down menu. We want to emphasize that everything you post on Edmodo is private to your group or the individual(s) with whom you shared the content. But public pages give teachers the option to share Edmodo posts with a wider audience on a case-by-case basis.

To make a post public, click the “Public” link located underneath an individual message.

To remove a public post, click the red “X” next to the “Public” link.

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Spotlight

The Spotlight section is located in the top right-hand corner of the homepage. From this section, teachers and students can view upcoming events, new replies to posts, new alerts posted by teachers, and direct posts from other teachers and students.

Teachers can also see notifications for new group members, new teacher connections, requests for connections, and student assignments that need grading.

For students, the Spotlight section also displays no-tifications for assignments due within two weeks and new grades posted by their teachers.

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Teacher Connections

Teachers build their individual professional lear-ning communities by networking and making new connections using the Suggested Connections box.

Search Teachers and Suggested Connections features

From this section, teachers may befriend colleagues from their school or a shared group by clicking the “Connect” link next to their profile, or they may remove the listing from the “X” next to the name.

To manage the full list of contacts, teachers must visit their profile page, linked from their name at the top of their Edmodo home page. Teachers can send a colleague a direct message by clicking on the profile of a contact and typing directly into the

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message window, or they can remove the contact by tapping the “Remove” button at the top of the page.

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Join Communities

In addition to the your school and district commu-nities you are a part of now that you have deployed your subdomain, you have the option to join other professional learning communities to engage in conversation, talk best practice and share and dis-cover resources.

There are a number of communities you can join based upon your subject area interests and your curriculum of choice. These communities are great places to get questions answered, exchange ideas and share great resources that you can clip into your libraries. You can find a full listing at http://www.edmodo.com/communities or simply by scrolling down to the bottom of any Edmodo page and clic-king on Communities in the footer.

You can follow a community, simply by clicking the “Follow this Subject” button at the top of the page. (For Content Publisher communities, the button will read “Follow Community”).

If you are a new Edmodo user, in order to post in a community, you must first request posting rights.

You can do this by selecting the “Request Posting Rights” option in the top left section of the commu-nity. Verification will take 1-5 days. Once you are verified as an educator you will have posting rights in all communities.

Connect with Teachers from the Communtiies

In order to connect with other teachers within a community, simply click on their name or profile picture and you will be taken to their profile page within which you can request a connection or start sending messages if you are already connected.

Discover Resources in the Communities and Add Them to your Library

You can also add any resources shared by other educators within a community to your own library. Simply click on the “add to library” button next to the item you want to add to your library.

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Library

Leveraging the power of the Web, the Edmodo Li-brary allows teachers to store and manage uploaded documents in a wide range of file formats, with the ability to access and edit them anywhere, anytime. A personalized database linked from the very top of the member’s home page, the Library also allows teachers and students to easily share and discover files with peers. From the Library, teachers and students can:

• Search for documents by name using the search bar at the top of the library.

• Add files (100MB maximum per each), Web links, assignments and polls to the Library by clicking the tab in the upper left corner of the page, and then by following the ins-tructions. The files will appear within the document folders “Everything” and “Me” – located in the upper left-hand column-and within any specified folder.

• You can organize your content into folders. To create a folder, select the folder icon in the left-hand column of your Library.

• Select any item in your library and see a preview of that item in the right-hand co-lumn.

• File a library item within a specific folder or delete the item by selecting it (The item

will be highlighted after you select it). Once you’ve selected the item, the right-hand co-lumn will display a preview of the item, and the option to add it to a folder or delete the item will be displayed under the preview.

• Mark items as favorite by adding it to your “Favorites” folder. Any item saved to the Fa-vorites folder, will also appear in the “Favo-rites” tab of your your Teacher Profile page.

• Show items in your library that have either been added via the “Library” button or by being attached to posts in your groups. Use the filters on the left side (Library, Attached to Posts, Sent by Me).

• Filter content by type-files or links-from the drop-down menu “All Types” at the top of the page.

• You can view the contents of your library in a list view by selecting the list icon at the top of the page.

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Once you have created your folders, you can also share them with your groups simply by selecting the folder you want to share and checking off any groups you would like to share them with from the right-hand column.

These folders will also show within the group stream in the right-hand navigation for easy access.

Folder Play View

Play View option allows you to see all the contents of a folder in Play View mode. To enable play view mode, select the folder you want to view from the left panel. On the right panel, select the “Play View” button.

If the folder is shared with a group, you can provide the Play View link (located below the Play View but-ton) to any group members to enable them to view the contents of that folder in Play View. There’s also an option to mark the contents public, so anyone

you share the link with can view the content in Play View.

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Mobile Web

View and reply to posts, join groups and publish new messages to your Edmodo groups from anywhere, anytime, with our mobile application. You can ac-cess the mobile application through any internet enabled smartphone at m.edmodo.com.

Edmodo also offers native apps for Android and iPhone devices (including iPod Touch).

• Download the Edmodo app for iPhone or Android.

• Enter your Edmodo username and password.

• View posts from your Edmodo homepage or groups , check for new notifications in your Spotlight, post a message, join a group or search for, and connect with other teachers.

The iPhone and Android apps also have built-in ‘Bump’ functionality, which allows you to instantly connect with other Edmodo users by simply bum-ping your phones together.

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To bump with a teacher, open the Edmodo app on your Android or iPhone, visit your profile and select the ‘bump’ button. Once selected, the phone will search for nearby users. Any teachers who are in close proximity will be identified and you can ‘bump’ phones to make your connection.

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Co-Teaching

Teachers who share a classroom at their school can easily share an Edmodo group in much the same way, helping to grade assignments, monitor discus-sions, and post files or comments to the group. Here’s how to establish a group co-teacher:

• When one teacher creates a group, he or she can then invite the co-teacher to the group with the same secure code used to invite students.

• Once the co-teacher has joined, the group’s creator can then call up the teacher’s profile by selecting the “Manage” button from the Members section, located in the right-hand column.

• On the member page, the group’s creator can upgrade a teacher to a “co-teacher” from within the drop-down menu adjacent to the teacher’s name.

Once granted this new status, a co-teacher can post messages to the group, create events, and manage settings (See the topic Manage Group Settings), in-cluding subscribing to feeds and viewing and recor-ding grades. A co-teacher only lacks the privilege to archive or delete a group, upgrade another teacher to a co-teacher, or remove the group’s creator.

From the Spotlight section, co-teachers can also view students’ homework submissions. The appearance of Spotlight homework notices is synced on both teachers’ home pages, so if a teacher grades an as-signment, the co-teacher’s Spotlight notice for that assignment will disappear.

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Small Groups

Creating a Small Group:

Teachers can create small groups within any group they own. From the group members page, click on “Create Small Group”

Enter a small group name, and click “Create”

Your small group should now be created. The next step is to add members to your small group.

Adding members to a Small Group:

The parent group’s owner and co-teachers are mem-bers of all small groups by default. Select any mem-bers from the “Available Members” box that you would like in the small group. Note that a member must be in the parent group to be in the small group. (Tip: you can select multiple members at once by holding the “Ctrl” key, or a range of members by holding the “Shift” key and clicking.)

Click the “>>” button to put the selected available members into your new small group. These mem-bers will be notified by an Edmodo system message that you added them to the small group.

Likewise, you may select members from your new small group and click the “<<” button to remove them from the small group. You may update the member list of your small groups at anytime by clicking on the small group name from its parent group’s members page.

Using Small Groups:

Any member of a small group may post a message to it just as they post messages to regular groups. Teachers can even post assignments to small groups!

The parent group filter does not include posts to its small groups. To filter specifically by small group posts, you must first filter by the parent group, and then select the small group.

Managing Small Groups:

Small groups are managed from the parent group’s members page. Here, you’ll have the ability to re-name or archive the small group.

Click on the small group name to view or update its member list.

Parent Accounts

The following is written specifically for helping pa-rents to know how to use the Parent Account. If you would like a template email for how to announce these parent accounts to parents and teachers, please follow this link. Please see the instructions at the bottom of this section for how to find the Parent Account codes and sending direct messages to Parents:

Parent accounts allow the exchange of messages between parents and teachers (including due dates and missing assignment reminders), provide pa-rents direct access to grades, and alert families to school events and activities.

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Create a Parent Account:

In order to create a parent account, click on the “I’m a Parent Button” in the middle of the Edmodo home page. A facebox will appear in the middle of your screen, in which you will write in the parent code that you have been provided by the teacher of your child. You will also need to state your relationship with the child and provide a valid email address to register your account.

Navigate the Parent Account Homepage:

Within the Parent Account home page you can mo-nitor direct messages between parents, teachers and students (only the parent’s children) on the middle of the page in the everything stream. If you have multiple children, you can filter to see just an indi-vidual child’s interactions by clicking on their name in the left navigation.

If you need to add additional children to your parent account, click on the “Add Student” button directly below the already added children’s names. If you are looking for quick information about due dates grades and feedback, you can always look in the spotlight in the top right corner of the page beneath the search box.

Navigate the Parent Account Calendar:

Within the calendar you can see all of the events, due dates, and assignments for each child enabled within the parent account. You can filter to see a single child’s calendar by selecting it from the drop down menu directly to the right of the month and year designation. You may navigate the calendar with the drop down menus and forward and backward arrows to the left of the month and year designation. You may also export or print this calendar for use in other calendaring software or to simply have it as a hard copy.

Navigate the Parent Account Grades Page:

From the grading page, you can see all of the assi-gnments that were given to the children within the parent account. You can switch between the children and the courses for those individual children from the left navigation.

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by the student and comments from the teacher. To access them, simply click on the assignment title from the list.

Each assignment will either have a grade, a dash (for a missing assignment), N/A (for an assignment given to some students in the class but not others for differentiation), or waiting… (for a turned-in assignment that the teacher still needs to grade). At the bottom of the grades page, you will find the total points for the child and the total points possible for the given class (for all of the assignments turned in).

Navigate the Parent Account Settings Page:

From the Parent Account settings page, you can sign up for notification emails about assignments and direct messages from teachers as well as choose an avatar/image to represent your parent account within Edmodo. You can also use this page to change your email and password if you need to do so.

Finding Parent Codes (as a teacher):

By hovering over the group name and then clicking on the Members of that group, you will be able to find the parent codes for all students within that group. To find one code, click on the parent icon. To download all of the codes for a class as a CSV file (which you can open in any spreadsheet program), you can click on the link after clicking on one Parent Code icon:

Note: Once your parents have been notified of their codes and have joined Edmodo, it is best practice to reset all parent codes so that only verified parents have access.

Sending Direct Messages to Parents (as teachers):

This is done by typing in either the parent’s names in-dividually into the “Send To” box or by typing in the name of the group and selecting the Parents option from the suggestions. This will allow teachers to send direct messages to all parents in a group at one time.

Student Profiles

Student profiles showcase select information about the student, including:

• Badges: Any badges that have been awarded to the student will be displayed on their pro-file page. Learn more about badges.

• Learning Style: Students can specify whether they are an auditory, tactile or visual learner.

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• Career Goal: Students can specify their ca-reer goal by choosing from a pre-defined list of career areas.

Student profile pages also display the student’s tea-chers, classmates, groups they are a member of and their recent activity (i.e. posts).

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Student Badges

Badges enable teachers to provide recognition to stu-dents for their achievements. Teachers can choose to award a student with an Edmodo created badge, or create their own custom badges.

To award a badge, visit the profile of the student you’d like to award and select the “award badge” button at the top of their profile page. A panel will open up that will allow you to create a badge, or select from badges you have already created and Edmodo created badges.

If you would like to create a badge, select the “new badge” option. Provide a title for the badge and a description, then select the upload button to provide an image for the badge. Your image will automati-cally be resized to fit into our standard badge size.

If you would like to select a badge you’ve already created or an Edmodo created badge, simply select the badge and click the “award badge” button.

Once a badge is awarded, the student will receive a notification.

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To delete a badge you’ve created, select the badge from your list and choose the “edit badge” option at the bottom of the panel. In the edit screen you will see the option to delete the badge.

To revoke a badge, visit the profile of the student who was awarded the badge. Click the “badges earned” link to open up the badge panel. Select the badge you’d like to revoke. Once selected, you will see the “revoke badge” option at the bottom of the panel.

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