Edmodo

Edmodo is being used to connect students, parents, and the community with teachers and administrators in their schools. It allows teachers to upload text messages, digital content, class schedules, digital assignments, and use align educational applications. Additionally, it allows teachers to collaborate and share materials as well as providing the opportunity for classes to connect to other schools from around the world to share ideas and content. It is used in our district on a teacher by teacher basis and is up to the discretion of the teacher on whether or not to incorporate it in their particular classes. When used correctly it allows teachers to have instant access to their students outside the classroom and encourages student-teacher collaboration and class engagement.

Many teachers at our school use or have used Edmodo as a method for organizing information and maintaining communication for and with students. Recently, students began utilizing Edmodo as a communication tool to form groups and send out notifications for school and even social events. Teachers have also used Edmodo for collaboration and professional development purposes.

My company used Edmodo in its test prep classes. ACT instructors would set up a "class" in Edmodo for their students in which students would submit assignments, view homework and grades, network, and ask questions of the instructor.

We also used Edmodo as a resource hub for test prep instructors and tutors. I was the administrator on the corporate account and maintained a digital archive/library of resources to help our employees teach/tutor various subject areas. Instructors/tutors were also able to share and post resources themselves.

As a middle school library Media Specialist, our private, international school in Seoul choose to use Edmodo as a classroom management tool. We found the interface easy to use with students and although it took parents some time to catch on, it ended up being a useful tool. I especially liked how you could create a quiz and Edmodo would grade it immediately for you. It made for a quick assessment check for understanding with my students. Also, it was a platform students could help their peers with too, yet we could monitor their discussion and make sure that it was educationally appropriate.

We use Edmodo to maintain a personal learning network of teachers virtually. These are teachers who work in very isolated schools and really benefit from the virtual connection that Edmodo provides. We also assist these teachers as they set up Edmodo in their classrooms. We help them backward design their student's Edmodo experience. We believe that Edmodo has the safest and most secure LMS platform available to teachers. The best part about working with Edmodo is the connection that we have with the company themselves. After meeting them at a conference, I was able to foster a partnership with them and they are very responsive to tech support and participating in our Edmodo training sessions. Edmodo is growing, they take teacher's input and spit out great new products that really enhance the user's experience. I test out each LMS that enters the market and in the past five years, nothing has come close to the experience that teachers and students have on Edmodo.

Edmodo has been such a wonderful tool for my classroom. It has simplified tasks, aided communication with and between students outside of school, and encouraged participation and accessibility to students. I utilize Edmodo to send mass messages to students over the weekend and on snow days. Students use it to contact me or their peers after school hours when they need assistance with homework. I've utilized the quiz and gradebook to help ease my grading workload. I've even used it to create forums for shy students to participate in an online discussion so they can earn points for participation. In addition the the help Edmodo has brought to me and my students with classroom tasks, it has opened up a network of teachers with whom I can communicate and share material. I greatly appreciate the online community of teachers from whom I've been able to get resources and assistance. I am greatful for Edmodo and the way it's helped me be a more connected educator.

I use the Edmodo platform for my own personal use. And with that said my experience has been amazing! Edmodo brings the popularity and ease of social media to educators, students, app developers and parents and elevates their experience by creating communication pathways never been seen in any education system. Also there is constant constructive feedback that circulates through teachers and developers to move education forward by developing applications and features so that students get the most out of their schooling.

Describe how Edmodo is being used by your organization? At present, teachers use Edmodo to distribute assignments and generate assessment data quickly. Additionally, Cherokee County Schools (Cherokee Co, GA) facilitates community by using Edmodo's filtering mechanism as a means of portal control and monitoring of progress. Is it being used by a department or across the whole organization? Awareness of Edmodo (think brand recognition) is wide spread. The degree to which the tool is used, day to day, varies by classroom and level of familiarity. What business problems does it address? Edmodo aids teachers / instructors in that it designates an area that is solely focused on education relative to topical information and focus of interaction as well providing tools that help collect data, disseminate assignments and facilitate reciprocal communication with end users.

I currently use Edmodo with all my students (grades 9-12 and 6 classes). I use Edmodo as our primary form of communication, file sharing, communicative language activities, small group work within the larger Edmodo class groups, and as a way of having students complete online activities and quizzes. Edomodo allows for an easy tool of communication through an interface similar to Facebook, which many students are familiar with, but in a safer manner. I have also used Edmodo with colleagues in a similar manner: collaboration, communication and cooperation. I am also a member of several Edmodo communities which allows me the opportunity to share ideas and post questions to professionals across the world.

Edmodo is used to engage students and allows for student to use it in the classroom, on portable devices, at home and on the go. I develop lessons and Implement them via CCSS standards. Information is recorded and progress assists me in easily establishing grading, popular assignments, areas of reteaching and a high level of communications amongst, teachers, students, administrators, parents and remote monitoring agencies, I.E. partners or vendors. Vendors are those service providers that provide applications or academic resources used in teaching.

In today’s 21st century classroom, it is imperative that students are given the opportunities to interact with technology. Edmodo is a very useful educational platform to use in the classroom and encourages students to improve their digital literacy at school. Edmodo boasts a design that is very familiar to Facebook, something that welcomes to students and encourages student interaction as Edmodo mimics something that many of them interact with on a daily basis. However, it is important to make it clear to students that although Edmodo’s set up is similar-looking to Facebook, it is in fact very different and should be used for educational purposes only. Edmodo is a nice “closed garden” for students. Students are only able to access their “class” if they are given a log-in by a teacher. This is nice and puts parents at ease that their children’s work is protected by Edmodo’s log-in feature. Parents do have the ability to access Edmodo groups as well. They can be given a password from a child’s teacher to log-in at access that child’s class. While this is a nice feature, many schools have district websites for teachers or teams of teachers. Having another log-in for many parents may not be ideal. Edmodo’s capabilities are wide-ranging. This website allows teachers the ability to post assignments, quizzes, documents, videos, links, calendars, formative assessments, etc. Students also have access to a virtual “backpack” which allows them to upload documents that they can access anywhere with internet access. Students and teachers can also interact with each other by sending messages to one another. This feature opens up the doors of virtual communication and is a good way to teach students how to act responsibly when interacting with one another online. Edmodo also has a wide-variety of apps available in its store to enhance student’s Edmodo experience. The biggest downfall with Edmodo in my experience is the fact that a document cannot be simultaneously edited by a student and teacher. If a student is submitting an assignment they must save it and upload it to Edmodo. Then, the teacher must open it from Edmodo, make changes, save it, and then upload it back to Edmodo. With an online environment like Google Drive, students and teacher have the capability to edit documents simultaneously and have them saved automatically on the Google Drive. Overall, I would give Edmodo a very favorable rating. For what it does, it does well, and is ideal for an elementary/middle school classroom. At a higher grade level a teacher may want to supplement Edmodo with a more advanced online learning environment.

I use Edmodo to communicate with trainees. Often I begin with a poll in Edmodo to assess what knowledge base or interests. I also add assignments and quizzes that are tied in to the LMS. We also use it to link to other sites, like Google Docs, for collaborative feedback or projects. My goal is to flip my classroom so I usually put guidelines on Edmodo and let them explore the links. It is easy to maintain and edit on the spot. It is reliable, user friendly, and I have never needed it but heard the support is great. I love Edmodo!

Edmodo is a fantastic program that provides a means for communication and collaboration in several different facets, within select departments. Currently, we are not using Edmodo for cross-district purposes; however, this does not minimize the instructional impact this program has had for the teachers who use it within their own classrooms. Edmodo provides an easy-to-use interface for student use and includes a large quantity of online storage space for assignments and resources. Students can access Edmodo from any web-enabled device, allowing communication and collaboration to occur beyond traditional school hours.

Our district rolled out a county wide Edmodo initiative to all the middle schools and high schools. At the time we were the fifth largest district in the state. Edmodo was going to be used as a tool to engage students in daily lessons, and extend the classroom discussion beyond the walls of the classroom.

Edmodo is being used by all teachers in our school district. I use it for classroom management and to post content for students for different classroom subjects. I especially like how it allows students to post comments and ask questions to the teacher, provides a planner, and they are able to access different multimedia content, documents and links. The Edmodo apps are particularly helpful especially for many different projects in the class. The areas that I think are problems for Edmodo are: not being able to search for certain posts by tags, and not providing more options for the teacher with the gradebook feature.

Edmodo provides password protected access to teacher generated content and facilitates communication with students by teachers.

I currently use Edmodo for my elementary afterschool choral group consisting of 4th and 5th grade students. I use it to post calendar events that all members can see, post assignments for students, and to link videos and music files that the students can use to practice their songs at home. It is a valuable resource because it makes the files easily accessible to the students, saves me time and money from printing paper or making CD copies of music. I have also created a social page for those students to use to socialize with each other in a safe way and to help eliminate the need to socialize during our chorus meeting time once a week.

Edmodo was used as an online discussion forum for students enrolled in online courses of the College of Business. It allowed for students to interact with each other in a user-friendly environment with excellent tracking features for faculty. It allowed faculty to not only filter interactions by student for grading purposes, but to also see their interactions in the context of the group conversation. The learning management system used at the university did not display the user interactions in context and this allowed for faculty to see the original posts from all students and the responses that they were promoting.

The use of Edmodo at my two junior high schools is variable, and has changed over time. Over the last two years, Edmodo use had spread across all departments and discplines, and roughly 40% of teachers were using Edmodo to one degree or another with their classes. Many teachers used Edmodo simply as a way to communicate with students and parents regarding upcoming assignments, due dates, and class activities using the calendar feature. Students were using the backpack feature to store documents, because our district shared drives were not accessible off campus, and Edmodo allowed them to store files at school and access them at home. Edmodo use was encouraged by the administration, but not required, and many teachers simply did not use it at all. On the other extreme, some teachers used Edmodo extensively, to conduct class discussions, share content with students, assign and track student work, and even to grade and share grades. Those teachers who were using Edmodo more as a way to facilitate online discussion and interaction, or to allow groups to work together online in a safe forum, are still using Edmodo for those purposes.

This year, however, much of that has changed because the district implemented a new learning management system that is actually integrated with our grading platform. Use of Edmodo has gone down dramatically as a result, as the new system has become the default for teachers to post assignments and calendar dates to classes and parents.

I personally used Edmodo in my classroom as an alternative to the Blackboard Learning Management System. I was initially drawn to its simplistic, "Facebook-esque" interface, and its ability to send notifications to students on upcoming assignments. I found it easier for the students to access and quicker for them to master than Blackboard.

At Windermere Preparatory School, teachers use Edmodo as a communication tool for classes and advisories. Although it is not a mandatory tool, many teachers have chosen it for its user-friendly interface and its useful collection of tools. At my previous district, Edmodo was more widely used, allowing a simple way for teachers to get their feet wet with online and blended learning, in addition to giving teachers an easy way to communicate with their students. As an early adopter, I trained many of the teachers at my school and in my district, and was honored to present during an online Edmodo-sponsored webcast.

Edmodo is being widely used in Education. My school district has approved its use throughout the district for all grade levels as on online communication platform particularly for students to receive assignments and share their projects, reflections, etc. My professional use of it started with using it in my own classroom for the students to be able to share their projects with their classmates, and reflect on their work. This process has expanded to use Edmodo with 3 other schools in my district. The students in each of the three schools are put into groups with students from the other schools. They then share projects with relative strangers who give them feedback from peers similar to what they would get by sharing on Social Media. This gives the 4 teachers involved a chance to teach them how to properly protect themselves and use Social Media. It also gives the teachers control of their interactions, so netiquette and cybersafety can be taught. In addition, using Edmodo helped the teachers figure out how to give the students an "authentic" audience in a safe environment. The project has helped the teachers improve their teaching skills as well by co-teaching virtually.

Edmodo is being utilized in a number of classroom settings in both our middle and high schools. Teachers have integrated it on an individual basis as a learning management tool. The district is moving towards a 1:1 technology model, and in preparation, many teachers are experimenting with various platforms, and the implication is that a single one may be chosen for the district in the future.