quick setup guide for edmodo
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Basic help with edmodo.TRANSCRIPT
EDMODO SETUP
This is a simple and quick guide on how to setup Edmodo for
teachers. Even though this is not a detailed walk thru you’ll find that
the setup process is very simple.
Sandbox 2.0
Mark Stirbens Vol. 2
Sandbox 2.0: Edmodo Setup
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1. Teachers sign up
2. Creating a group
3. How to manage those groups
4. Student sign up
5. Parents accounts
This is a guide for teachers to setup their Edmodo account: @edmodo.com
Teacher sign up
Setting up a teacher account for using Edmodo is a very simple process. For those
who are a little scarred this guide should put those fears at ease. You can find most
of the following information from Edmodo’s web site. www.edmodo.com So lets get
right into it and begin.
What you’ll see
The first thing is obvious go to www.edmodo.com and on the first page you’ll see
“Sign up now. It’s free.” And two buttons with I’m a student and I’m a teacher. You
want to click on the button for I’m a teacher.
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Next step you’ll see is the registration screen and all you need to do is fill out all information.
Fill out username and password and email and click sign up. See I told you it was easy.
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This is a guide for teachers to setup their Edmodo account: @edmodo.com
Having groups can make it easy for you to communicate with students
and keep things organized.
Step 1: In the left-hand column of your home page, click the “create” link to
choose a group name.
Step 2: Type in the important information about your group and receive
confirmation. It is important to note that you can 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 immediately
Chapter 2:
Creating a group
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upon joining. Once you’ve successfully created a group, Edmodo will display
the group name in the left-hand navigation bar of your home page. You will
receive a note within the message stream and one in an overlay box with the
secure code for the group you’ve just created.
Step 3: Invite students to join your group with the designated code.
Note: It is best practice to reset your group’s code after all students have joined
so that no additional users can use this code to gain access.
Note: It is best practice to reset your group’s code after all students have joined
so that no additional users can use this code to gain access.
Note: It is best practice to reset your group’s code after all students have joined
so that no additional users can use this code to gain access.
I wanted you to remember this for safety features. Obviously this is important.
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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.
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students have joined so that no additional users can use this code to
gain access.
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This is a guide for teachers to setup their Edmodo account: @edmodo.com
Here you can change passwords, add members, add groups all by using
Edmodo simple tools. Below are a series of screen shots from Edmodo’s guide
and thanks to their help makes using Edmodo a breeze.
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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, teachers can rename a group,
set all new members to read-only status, change the group’s designated
grade level and subject matter, and archive or delete the group entirely.
o 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
rename the existing group before archiving it.
o Delete - You can delete the entire group as well, but please only
use this if you really mean to.
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Manage – On the members page (located via the link below the
member list called Manage), teachers can view a list of students in the
group. Teachers can view individual student gradebooks, change an
individual password, 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 individual students to read-only mode within the
group or set all members to read only via that link above the member
list.
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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 Subscribe Group to Feed link from
the group settings 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.)
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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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This is a guide for teachers to setup their Edmodo account: @edmodo.com
The student sign up is very similar than the teacher setup. So I just show the
setup with two steps.
1. Visit Edmodo web site click on student setup.
2. Then enter the code provided by the teacher.
See very simple they should have no problem figuring it out.
This is a guide for teachers to setup their Edmodo account: @edmodo.com
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The following is for helping parents 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
parents direct access to grades, and alert families to school events and
activities.
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 face box 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.
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Navigate the Parent Account Homepage:
Within the Parent Account home page you can monitor 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 individual 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.
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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.
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Navigate the Parent Account Grades Page:
From the grading page, you can see all of the assignments 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.
Each assignment is hyperlinked to both the original file (and other type of
turned-in materials) turned in 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).
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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:
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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 individually 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.
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Giving thanks
I give great thanks for Edmodo and providing all the information for this setup
guide. You can find more at www.edmodo.com for more details. The pictures
were also the product of Edmodo’s own setup guide and the inspiration to
pass this information along. By no means do I work for or are receiving any
kind of payment from Edmodo. I just believe that Edmodo is an awesome
portal to connect to the modern student. I hope to only pass along the
information to others and show what a great tool this is.