Schoology

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Description

Schoology is a learning management system with assessment management to improve student performance, foster collaboration, and personalize learning.

Getting Started

Signing up

Instructors and students sign up on the website https://www.schoology.com/. You don’t need a school based email address in order to register.

A Beginners guide to using schoology

https://www.schoology.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-using-schoology-the-back-to-school-essentials

Getting started for teachers

Below you will find an explanation of the different areas of your Schoology account.

https://support.schoology.com/hc/en-us/articles/206621517-Getting-Started-on-Schoology-For-Instructors

Getting started for students

https://support.schoology.com/hc/en-us/sections/204324647-Getting-Started-on-Schoology-for-Students

Getting started for parents

https://www.schoology.com/blog/helpful-resources-to-get-parents-and-advisors-started-on-schoology

Tools for distance learning

Distance learning readiness kit

Schoology have developed a ‘Distance learning readiness kit’ which outlines how Schoology can be used as a distance learning tool. It has information on:

Webinars
Using LMS (Learning management systems) during school closures
How to prepare students for successful online learning
7 ways to increase online student engagement.

You can read about that here https://www.schoology.com/prepare

Flipped Classroom Schoology Forum

A very good resource for questions and answers is the Schoology forum on the flipped classroom which can be found here: https://app.schoology.com/group/19069943