How-to build, develop and use an online

platform

First Go to https://www.schoology.com

STEP TWO:
CLICK ON THE SIGN UP TAP THEN CLICK
STUDENT

Log-in
You will use
your school
email address
to log-in.
Use the
password
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What you are looking at

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Home tab brings you to this screen.

Courses hold each of your classes
Groups is where you can join different professional groups
Resources is where you can keep your materials and find public
materials for your use

Courses
1. List of courses you
belong to as an
admin or member
2. Create your
classes in any
format.
3. Join classes that
are being put on
by other educators

Groups

You can join groups

that have similar
interests or create
your own groups.
These groups can
be public and
private.
This is a great place
to network and ask
questions about
schoology or things
you are doing in the
classroom.

Notifications
Whenever someone
posts in one of your
classes, adds a
discussion post,
uploads an
assignment or
completes a quiz,
you will be notified.

Reminders
1. Reminders tell you
what you need to do or
check! It helps keep you
organized.
2. The upcoming is what
assignments you have
open or opening soon.

Example course

Materials
1. You can have students
submit anything and
everything via Schoology.
Daily work to long term
projects.
2. Have your students take
multiple choice, fill in the
blank, short answer, true
false, essay or matching
quizzes and tests
3. Upload any useful files or
websites that you want
students to have access
to every day!
4. Let your students blog
and communicate via the
internet. Have them
research and support
claims, etc.
5. You can upload media
files such as photos and

Left hand tabs

1. What you see when you open a class
2. This is like a continuous update page
such as that of the Facebook newsfeed.
3. This is where you can see what grades
each student has received: Skyward
does not directly connect with
Schoology as of yet but is supposed to
be soon.
4. List of students who have joined your
class
5. Shows how many times your schoology
page has been visited as well as total
comments posted.

Creating an Assignment

Click on Add Assignment to open the

dialogue box.

Creating an Assignment
contd Name your assignment
and give a description of
what needs to be done.
Add a due date. This will
allow you to see when
students turn an
assignment in late.
Set your point total. This
can be adjusted at any
time.
Categories are for if you
set your gradebook up in
schoology.
Scale/Rubric: numeric or
A+/-

Creating: Advanced Settings

1. Individually
Assign
2. Align
3. Lock
4. Dropbox
Enabled

4. Visible to
students
5. Grade Statistics
6. Comments
7. Copy to course

Assignment created

You will see each of your assignments that

youve created on this page. You can add
many assignments and then edit them all at
once with the bulk edit feature. You can
explore this at length another time once
many assignments have been created.

Creating tests and quizzes

You can add quizzes and tests of any fashion in this part of the
website. The following slides will explain how to create a test.
The Export Question Stats allows for fast and easy item analysis.

Creating tests and quizzes

Obviously name your quiz and continue with the labels just
as shown with the assignments. You may individually
assign and align quizzes and tests as well!!

Creating quizzes contd

1. List of the questions and

styles
2. Set due date, page breaks,
randomize questions,
directions, # of submissions,
etc.
3. Look at the quiz or test how
the student will see it
4. Results shown by student or
by question
5. Comments made by you or
students about the quiz

6.
7.
8.
9.

Add question button

Stats
Grade Info
Settings

Question styles
The style types are quite simple to
follow and the creation of individual
questions are easy.
From question bank is from a bank of
questions you create.
Import tests from blackboard or
examview.
Page breaks and text are quite easy to
understand. Text is nice if you do not
randomize questions because it will be
where you place it.

Test Example

Test Settings

Test Results by questions

Test Results by Question

This shows brief statistics for the questions. This is nice for
item analysis especially if you align your questions.
If you click view response, you can see what each student
answered.

Test Statistics

This gives us the statistics shown from the statistics button at the top
of the page. It allows you to see how well students scored or didnt
score.

Discussions

This is a great platform for teaching and learning. Many colleges are
moving towards online discussion platforms such as D2L. This is a
great stepping stone to prepare students for that environment. In the
following slides I will show how to create a discussion and an example
of a discussion. Then I will provide various examples of rubrics for
grading discussion posts!!

Adding a Discussion
1. You will click the add
discussion box at the top
left hand corner of the
screen.
2. The dialogue box will
pop up and you can add
information. In the
description, I usually put
instructions for that
particular post.
3. Due dates are an
optional piece for you if
youd like that aspect
4. Advanced settings are
similar to the
assignments. I will go
through the different one

Important feature

1.Individually Assign
2.Align
3.Lock
4.Visible to Students
5. Requires students to post
before they can see other
student posts! This is
extremely important if you
ask questions and want
individual answers.

6. Share the discussions. It also

allows you to password protect
the discussion so that only
students you want to explore
discussions can or for whatever
other reason youd like!
7. Copy to other courses

Discussions screen

Students post here

and can add links
and files for support.
I love having them
include the link to
see the support they
use.

This is to share with

other courses if this is a
great discussion.
Especially nice if you
have a weak class

Different ways of grading

1. Completion with quality
2. Rubric
1. Example 1 (links to outside site)

3. Rating scale
1. 1-10 or 1-5

Members page

Here you can do many things include messaging a particular

student, removing a student from a class, or previewing
what a student will see when he or she logs on!!
The crown next to the top name is the administrator of the
class. If you join another class, such as a networking class, you

Members page contd

1. The access code is a number you
can give to anyone to participate
in your course.
2. Approval is so if someone gets
ahold your access code you do
not have to let them into the
class.
3. This is a unique code given to
each individual student so that a
parent can see what has been
submitted and what else is going
on in class! (I intend to use this
feature next year.)

App Center

App Center
In this area you will find many useful
products for your use. Some of them
have a cost, some of them are free
and some are still in beta versions.
Remind 101 is the most useful free
app available!!

Remind 101
Basically this allows you to
create a message with 149
characters that will be sent
as a text or an email to
students and parents who
have signed up using your
code!! It is simple and fast! It
is free and allows you to
communicate with every
student at one time. You can
set up as many
classes/organizations as you
want.

Remind 101

Here is an example of what the screen will look like once you have joined
Remind 101. It is also very easy to contact them with questions and they
are prompt in response!!

More functions!
1. Like the Facebook newsfeed
2. Shows what you have posted
for each day as far as due
dates. Great for kids once we
all are using Schoology!!
3. Messages is an internal email
system to respond to students
and other educators
4. Gives you the option to look
at all of your students and
connections you have made.
Connections are fun because
you can start to network with
teachers from other districts
5. Allows you to see what people
post that you are following

Calendar

Thank you
These are obviously just the basics of
an endless list of capabilities.
Exploring this Schoology is absolutely
the only way to understand how it
works but small steps is how to go!!
Ask questions whenever you need
help to continue to help students
achieve success!