Michelle Hart & Maria Umali
Schoology
The Most Comprehensive K-12 Teaching and Learning Solution
A learning management system for education and businesses. It allows users to manage, create professional developments, and share assignments and vast resources around the globe. It is a cloud-based platform that provides efficient blended, online, and virtual learning environments.
It was founded and designed on 2007 by Jeremy Friedman, Ryan Hwang, and Tim Trinidad, who were students at Washington University in St. Louis. They originally used the platform for sharing notes until features have been added and modified to date.
Schoology Learning Integrations include Dropbox, Google Workspace, Google Workspace for Education, Nearpod, Khan Academy, OneNote, OneDrive, Evernote, Vimeo, Formative, and Infinite Campus.
Introduction to Schoology
The Most Comprehensive K-12 Teaching and Learning Solution
Schoology is part of PowerSchool Unified Classroom Resolution. It is the leading K-12 learning management system with over 20M users and 7M students globally in over 60,000 schools.
The leading learning management system enables K-12 school districts to improve student performance and empower educators.
Comprehensive Teaching and Learning Platform - Schoology is one platform for all, which includes learning management, assessment, and professional development.
Prepare For Your Digital Future - Schoology connects all stakeholders in one flexible online platform across the entire district.
Deeper Insight into Student Performance - It supports personalized instruction that supports the individual needs.
Ability to Change and Adapt - It features inevitable changes and challenges while allowing the stakeholders to be more flexible and reliable in teaching strategies and learning.
District-Wide Collaboration - It bridges learners, educators, parents, and the community on professional development, collaboration on instructional strategies, and access to learning content.
Increase Parent Management - It takes communication to a higher level with its built-in communication tools, with Schoology group for the parent organization, and their new Microsoft Immersive Reader to support tight connections between classroom and home.
Helpful Videos to Learn More About Schoology
Schoology Enterprise LMS for K-12
Schoology LMS Integration
Schoology Learning Offers classrostering and hgrade syns with the schools' SIS or Student Information System.
Learn the Basics for Online Learning
Want to learn more? Here's a recorded webinar from Schoology's youtube page.
Pros and Cons
“Integrated Learning Management System”
Source: Capterra
(Andrew G., 2020)
Overall: Overall Schoology is going to allow for better implementation of curriculum as an online and hybrid option during this COVID19 pandemic.
Pros: Schoology integrates seemlessly into our district as we already use Powerschool so it will make it an easy transition for teachers into online learning.
Cons: The interface and mobile app could use an interface update to make it a little more friendly and easy to navigate.
Alternatives Considered: Roya and Blackboard Collaborate
Reasons for Choosing Schoology: Overall we ended up going with Schoology because of the Powerschool integration. When schools shut down it was a hard transition for many teachers, so we are hoping the familiarity with other products will make the use easier going forward.
“Schoology Review”
Source: Capterra
(Santino M., 2022)
Pros: Schoology makes it easy to create, share and manage classroom activities. This software is awesome for remote learning and has been a part of the education system even before online teaching/learning rose to prominence. The platform has many great features, the assessment creation option as well as a calendar for keeping students updated are very practical tools. The user interface is pretty easy to get a hang of and students find it very easy to navigate the space.
Cons: The platform itself does not have many flaws however the mobile version does tend to crash occasionally even during assessments.
References
Schoology
Wikipediia. (n.d.). Schoology. Wikipedia. Retrieved July 16, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoology
Schoology Learning
Schoology Learning. (n.d.). Https://Www.Powerschool.Com/Solutions/Unified-Classroom/Schoology-Learning/%E2%80%8B. Retrieved July 16, 2022, from https://www.powerschool.com/solutions/unified-classroom/schoology-learning/%E2%80%8B
Cool for Schoology: 8 Things To Know
Chan, R. W. (2015, March 25). Cool for Schoology: 8 Things to Know. Rodel. Retrieved July 16, 2022, from https://rodelde.org/cool-for-schoology-8-things-to-know-about-delawares-new-learning-management-system/
Schoology Introduction
Schoology Introduction. (2012, June 5). YouTube. Retrieved July 16, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqc1xE2H9Wg&t=1s
New to Schoology?
New to Schoology? Learn the Basics for Online Learning. (2020, March 18). YouTube. Retrieved July 16, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz5ye3DyvqU
Schoology LMS Integration
Schoology LMS Integration. (2019, May 8). YouTube. Retrieved July 16, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1pnB72tSfo
Schoology Logo
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