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Flexible, fully-featured and fun!
May 16, 2017

Flexible, fully-featured and fun!

Jo Patton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Schoology

The Archbishop of York Youth Trust has been running social action awards for over 5 years throughout the north of the UK. However, our vision was to allow the award to run by any school internationally. After a comprehensive analysis of LMS and VLE platforms, we settled on schoology. The platform we chose needed to allow for excellent communication, a superb facility to deliver excellent bespoke content and equally as important the facility to collect both teacher and student evidence. We needed a platform we could lock down where needed and open up if required. Schoology ticked all out specific boxes.
  • A huge community of teachers and learners looking to sharing their experience and support one another in the usage of the platform.
  • A recognisable user interface which makes the learning curve for new users simple and intuitive.
  • Superb flexibility to create bespoke learning environments for teachers and learners.
  • Some limitation of iframe embed due to the HTTPS protocol requirement. Use of HTML code editor often strips the inclusion of more advanced features such as Java functions.
  • Limitation toe badge and gamification of learning.
  • Currently, the Assessments tools are limited (new tools coming for 2017) and LTI integration not fully functional, relying on apps developers to plug the gaps.
  • Positive feedback from instructors who find the platform easy to use.
  • Excellent feedback from stakeholder investors who are able to see transparent elements of the platform through unique profile settings.
  • Positive feedback from Administrative staff who find the platform simple to use and yet complex enough to complete day to day tasks.
Schoology's community of teachers is huge and built within the platform which means you feel supported from day one in the platform. The free 'basic' accounts also mean that you can experiment with the platform before signup to the enterprise version.
Schoology works best for a whole school setting where different ability levels of instructors and learners will be accessing the platform. Especially suited to an establishment which intends to develop a blended learning and learning self-paced learning approach outside of the classroom. A school which confidently uses mobile apps and digital technologies will find schoology a healthy addition to their collection of digital tools.