EDMODO focuses on a win/win for all!
Software Version
ONLINE
Modules Used
- Classrooms, Library, Teacher collaboration, Professional Development
Overall Satisfaction with Edmodo
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.
- Wonderful communications tool to help a teacher to plan!
- Wonderful student engagement.
- Fantastic time savings for teachers who can have more time to help individual students rather than talk too much in classrooms.
- Great for collaboration of tests or assignments amongst sharing teachers.
- Easy to create surveys for students and teachers to evaluate needs.
- The test pages should allow for documents like short stories to be accessed so an exam does not have too much information, confusing students.
- It used to be easier to send assignments back to students to re-do, now you have to give a low grade and hope the student sees the grade and re-does thier work.
- One example personnally was the fact that at a site, I was one of few teachers providing lesson plans and had documentation to prove it.
- It allowed me to use very little paper and was great in preparing students to do online assessments, which will be the norm, going forward.
- It really helped me save time and money as it has built in reinforcers, (Badges), that can become costly and only profitable for $0.96 type stores that often result in trash/plastic products.
- I found it excellent that I spent zero monies, while districts pay thousands if not more for systems that only force exams to be input and provide almost the same level of statistical data.
EDMODO is unique in that there are few products like it. It works as an interface and helps to organize many tasks that are overwhelming teachers today and keeping them from helping those students in the most need.
Using Edmodo
50 - Students, Aides, teachers, Administration, and much more
Edmodo takes care of itself. If there is a problem the Edmodo support team online helps you usually within a day or so.
- Save paper and ink
- Save on copiers and copy wars.
- Communications with feedback students can use is the best feature.
- Portals for parents really allows for parent participation without student embarassment.
- Once you made an exam, it can be shared and corrected by the system saving many hours, providing feedback and saving teachers from expensive grading software.
- Edmodo saves money!
- Edmodo helps teachers to plan!
- Edmodo allows for data gathering.
- Edmodo allows for teachers to provide links so students dont loose important information as links can be complex or misspelled.
- Students can use other newer technology based learning tools like Khan Academy and Google Doc.s as these are proven cost saving and student friendly resources available to both affluent as well as economically challenged families.
- Students make a profile, and they can create and communicate a little more about themselves to the people who work to help them.
- If everyone had Edmodo, we could all be more sharing and have the understanding of similar data to better plan for the learning of future students.
- I have found that even when some students may have been suspended, they went home and worked on assignments in Edmodo!!!
Evaluating Edmodo and Competitors
Yes - Some products I reviewed did not have flexibility or ease of use for the students. Edmodo appears to be focused on what the student needs and not just for its profit stockholders. Some companies I reviewed cost the district hundreds of dollars and did not have the engagement factor that Edmodo does.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Vendor Reputation
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
It could be the single most important reason that I am still a teacher. There seems to be no hidden agenda with Edmodo to see how teachers are doing. It is focused on helping everyone to communicate more efficiently without costing me anything.
Sometimes we come into a assignment and we are given many tools or resources. In my case I was not. I was given little resources, little understanding and the students needed something they could use to help them focus. As long as I am a teacher, I will lobby for the cost effective use of resources, lobby for the fair treatment of students, rich or poor and lobby for the collaboration of teachers, students, parents and administrators towards the goal of maximizing student achievement.
Edmodo Implementation
- Implemented in-house
I used me.
Yes - Yes, I used to teach multiple subjects then used my single subject credential to teach Computers. I found that it can be used by any discipline and was able to begin sharing with my collegues. I was even asked to do some district wide training for other schools.
Change management was minimal - Teachers like books and paper. It was how they learned. Today, my 85 year old mother uses Skype to talk with relatives, Facebook to travel and converse, and she uses to fear and hate computers. Everyone has to learn to understand that a computer is just a pencil. It is a new artistic tool that just about anyone can use. Focus on the tool and not being a tool.
- Teachers fear change.
- Administrators fear change.
- Students love to learn.
Edmodo Training
- Self-taught
Yes and sure
Configuring Edmodo
Edmodo Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
No - There is no more money for this. Things need to work as they are displayed. Edmodo is keep simple to save on costs.
Yes - Yes, It was resolved in a day or so.
I really like that if you have an educational question, Edmodo allows for teachers to discuss the matter in a safe non-biased arena. Many educators have seen issues and can share more easily in this method. Normally shy teachers can help. Internet savey teachers can share their experiences. You can decide what you like that people shared and choose to implement what your demographic needs require.
Using Edmodo
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Instant grading saves time, provides feedback and saves trees from dying.
- Students learn to do tasks like keyboarding, surfing and sharing.
- Teacher planning is almost forced but with organizational focus.
- Students would do better if they had access to a computer and internet. These are not in every classroom.
- Not everyone has internet or a computer at home. But there are many great agencies out there that support this void.
Yes - The students today have many toys. They use smartphones, ipad,s and other portable devices and there are free app's for them to do work.