Schoology Workshop

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Dana Sobczak ET5063 American College of Education

Schoology is a Learning Management System (LMS)

that is easy to use!

Schoology has a lot to offer educators and students.

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Figure 1: Schoology is a LMS that incorporates learning collaboratively

Schoology is organized, easy to operate and has great useful features.

Teacher Homepage

These tools help keep your Schoology page organized

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Figure 2. This pictures shows the tool bars on the Schoology homepage

Create your own Schoology account, it is free and easy.

Log on to www.schoology.com

Create an instructor account

Fill in the basic information * If you are a Sparta School District Employee, use your school email.

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Figure 3: Schoology accounts can be made as an instructor or a student

Figure 4: Schoology accounts ask for basic information and it is free to sign up

Schoology features are teacher friendly.

Create a course in Schoology. You can name this course anything you want your students to see. Example: Science hour 3

Upload your students into your courses. You will add each of your students as new member to your course.

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Figure 5: This picture highlights how to create a course in Schoology

Figure 6: This picture highlights how to add a student to the course

Organize your daily teaching tools using Schoology.

Your Schoology page will be the one place where all of your daily assignments, links, quizzes and grade book can be stored.

GRADEBOOK

Schoology will automatically grade quizzes!

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Figure 7: Schoology has a lot of tools for teachers to use

Figure 8: This figure shows the different items a teacher can have in their course

Figure 9: The grade book is a great feature of Schoology

Uploading assignments you have already generated and creating new assignments are easy when you

use Schoology.

Easily upload assignments for your students to see.

Hide the assignments you do not want your students to see yet.

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Figure 10that the teachers have control over

Explore your new Schoology page.

GOAL(S) 1.Create a course 2.Input at least one student 3.Upload an assignment

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Figure 11: This puts a visual to the many layers of Schoology

Creating Discussions in Schoology is simple and discussion are great for student collaboration.

How to create a discussion on Schoology video

Add one comment to the discussion before break

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Figure 12: Schoology can be used as a digital classroom

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References Schoology (2003). Schoology not your typical learning management system.

Retrieved from https://www.schoology.com/learning-management-system.php

Schoology. (2012). Schoology introduction [video] . Retrieved from http://vimeo.com/33624794

Schoology. Retrieved from http://www.stmaryspdx.org/academics/technology/schoology/

Schuetz, R. (2012, December 3). F ive reasons why schoology rocks. Retrieved from http://rtschuetz.blogspot.com/2012/12/five-reasons-why-schoology-rocks.html

Evenbrite. (2013). Schoology, inc.. Retrieved from http://www.eventbrite.com/org/984949721